TwitterAs are many of the things he does, Shia LaBeouf's latest art project #ALLMYMOVIES was a bit of a bizarre experience for many of the people who watched along. However, for him, it was an eye-opening occurrence that caused him to better understand his "sense of self."
In a sit down interview with NewHive—the website that hosted the livestream—he explains what he went through while watching all of his work. Here are eight revelations he made after the experience:
1. He can now use his name to order coffee: "I used to order my coffee and when they'd say, 'Hey what's your name?' I'd say James, because I didn't want them to say my name," he told the publication. "And today it's just something different ... This shit changed my coffee order name, which in turn, changed my sense of self."
2. He believes making pizza is an art: "These are ordinary men with extraordinary determination. You're not born an artist, or everyone is. You're not born an actor, or everyone is. It's about drive, a dedication level to this very specific thing. Roofers, pizza guys, anyone can be an artist. Anybody who's great at anything. Making pizza can be an art."
3. He considers the audience his family now: "The Even Stevens Movie was interesting, it's all of our childhood. It's mine and it's yours. It wasn't just me smiling like that. If you look at the freeze frames, everyone is smiling like, 'Wow, I remember Beans! I remember that stupid-ass song.' We were all looking at our yearbook together and we're all in the yearbook. It felt like family, we were sitting there like a high school class."
4. He believe his movies helped everyone press pause on their life: "When we all got through it, it wasn't just an applaud for me…it was like this cool little pause in life where all of the hubbub and all of the Bzzzz of running around and the busy-ness and the phones shut down and everything got really intimate and quiet. For what reason? No one knows. We still don't fully know. But it created something that is bigger than all of us, all of the movies and all of the crowd. It's connection. We were all connected for that moment. More-so for this show, then any other show we've done."
5, He also believes contagious yawning is more than just scientific: "There's no intellectual explanation for why when you yawn I yawn. There's something magical that goes down. I'm sure there's science but there's also something beyond the science."
6. He knows everyone hates his worst movies as much as he does: I think it started after Lawless. When the movies started getting shit. I'm telling you. When the movies started getting shit and they knew that I felt it too, it was the shared secret that we all had…not just because I'm in it…I'm in the same boat as you, I'm a viewer in this and this is hard for me to watch too. In fact, I'm gonna go take a nap 'cause I hate myself, not ‘cause I'm tired, but because I'm dying right now. And nobody had a problem with that. When I woke up an hour later and watched Transformers 2 they could feel when I sunk in my seat. That's not a performative thing. That's me going through some kind of crisis. And I'm not the only one. I remember right before I fell asleep I looked next to me and the guy next to me was falling asleep. You can see it on the screenshot we're both asleep. And the guy behind us is asleep."
7. He feels like a human being for the first time: "All I want to do is be liked…I walked out loving myself. Not in some grandiose, you're fucking awesome way, but in like, you're a part of a community. You're a part of this human thing. You're in this human thing. I've always felt as though, 'I'm just an animal in this human thing. And I'll play the human game. I'll wear the human mask.' But coming out of there, it's the first time I've actually felt part of this —it was very humanizing for me. I walked out loving myself. And I don't think I was the only one to feel that.
8. He thinks vulnerability is about to be trendy in Hollywood: "The movie world is just as elitist. I get emails from people in the movie world, people telling me, 'You gotta maintain mystery.'…but truth will always find its way out there. Sincerity is the new punk rock."
You can read his full interview with NewHive here.