Brad Pitt Fury Trailer, Transformers' star Shia LaBeouf revealed in a recent interview that Brad Pitt and film director David Ayer helped him find Jesus on the set of their WWII movie entitled 'Fury'.
The 27-year old California native will play as solider Boyd Swan in the aforementioned film whose faith in Christ allows him to deal with a chaotic environment where life and death hangs in the balance during the Second World War.
"I found God doing Fury. I became a Christian man, and not in a f*****g b******t way-in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page. But it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control. And while there's beauty to that, acting is all about control. So that was a wild thing to navigate...Brad [Pitt] was really instrumental in guiding my head through this," said Shia LaBeouf to Interview Magazine.
"Brad comes from a hyper-religious, very deeply Christian, Bible Belt life, and he rejected it and moved toward an unnamed spirituality. He looked at religion like the people's opium, almost like a Marxist view on religion. Whereas [Fury director/writer] David [Ayers] is a full subscriber to Christianity. But these two diametrically opposed positions both lead to the same spot, and I really looked up to both men. It was nice to have conversations with Brad about the family he came from and what he was using to get through the day."
Despite having a Pentecostal father, the 'Indiana Jones' actor previously identified himself as Jewish because of his mother Shayna's heritage.
"Yeah, my dad's Cajun. I have a cool lineage, a good group of people. I'm Jewish so I was named after my grandfather. Shia means 'gift from God' and LaBeouf means 'the beef' so my name means 'thank God for beef', said LaBeouf to IndieLondon website several years ago.
"I like beef, yeah, I mean I'm a walking advertisement for it! 'Man, I'm cool with 'gift from God', let's keep that going!'"
However, LaBeouf revealed in another interview years ago that if religion gives people hope, it makes sense, but it never made sense to him.
Now it appears that the actor is trying to turn his life around by having a better relationship with God after his recent controversies which caused him to be arrested four months ago. He had allegedly slapped 'Cabaret' actor Alan Cumming's butt during a performance and spit at a police officer, which resulted in the actor receiving going into alcohol and drug treatment.
