LA-Tom/Flynet"In French, LaBeouf means 'beef,' but mine is spelled wrong. It should be LaBoeuf. My grandmother was a beatnik lesbian in the '50s who hated her family and decided to change the spelling, and it's been that way ever since. So you go to France and people are like, 'LaBeouf? You have an illiterate last name.' By the way, Shia is a bad four-letter word in French. So the literal translation of my name is 'S*** the Beef.' Kind of rock-starry, isn't it?"
—Shia LaBeouf in a parade.com interview with Jeanne Wolf