“Timothée Chalamet is doing higher work than anybody alive — we been good,” LaBeouf wrote in a tweet shared Monday.
Shia LaBeouf is setting the document straight with regards to his relationship with Timothée Chalamet.
On Monday, the 38-year-old actor took to X (previously Twitter) to share a non-public e mail alternate he allegedly had with Chalamet again in October 2023, in an try and silence hypothesis that there was any unhealthy blood between the 2.
Quoting Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If,” LaBeouf wrote: “In case you can bear to listen to the reality you’ve got spoken, twisted by knaves to make a lure for fools.”
“Timothée Chalamet is doing higher work than anybody alive — we been good,” he added.
“In case you can bear to listen to the reality you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a lure for fools”
Timothée Chalamet is doing higher work than anybody alive – we been good pic.twitter.com/dXRFadP7Cv
— Shia LaBeouf (@thecampaignbook) Could 12, 2025
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The publish got here simply days after LaBeouf referred to Chalamet’s viral speech on the 2025 SAG Awards the place he mentioned he wished to be “nice” as “cute” in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, fueling rumors that there could be shade concerned on the Honey Boy actor’s facet.
However the alleged e mail alternate proves in any other case, with the back-and-forth exhibiting that Chalamet, 29, had apparently reached out to LaBeouf after seeing the longtime actor within the play Henry Johnson, and was impressed by his efficiency.
“Completely blown away by your work the opposite night time,” Chalamet wrote. “Completely electrical, completely current at each flip, king of your kingdom even when that kingdom is a depressing 4×4 jail cell.”
He continued. “What a incredible play. I hope you guys take it to New York. And I hope that is the start of your work on stage and never an anomaly!!”
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LaBeouf replied the subsequent day with a brief however supportive message that learn: “Thanks doggy. Each blessing to you. Enjoyable watching you evolve. Take possession. Bang bang.”
LaBeouf’s response to Chalamet’s SAG speech, and the way it hit him personally, was detailed in his Could 8 interview with THR.
“I do know we’re in a subjective enterprise, however the reality is, I am actually in pursuit of greatness,” Chalamet mentioned after profitable Finest Actor for A Full Unknown. “I do know individuals do not often discuss like that, however I wish to be one of many greats.”
LaBeouf name-dropped Chalamet whereas reflecting on his previous feud with Alec Baldwin throughout their 2013 Broadway run of Orphans, and the way his newfound Catholic religion modified the best way he handles battle.
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“It adjustments the best way you’re employed, for certain,” LaBeouf mentioned. “Me and Alec would by no means have these issues now. However I used to be in an island. Then I hear Timothée Chalamet stand up and he says one thing like, ‘I wish to be nice.'”
“I so know the sensation. On him, it is cute. On me, it wasn’t cute,” he continued. ” what I am saying?”
Chalamet has but to publicly handle LaBeouf’s feedback to THR or his latest tweet.
