The actor portrays a Franciscan Capuchin friar in Padre Pio.
Shia LaBeoufexperienced a religious awakening making his new filmPadre Pio.
“I had a gun on the table.
Venice Days
I was outta here,” LaBeouf revealed.
“I didn’t want to be alive anymore when all of this happened.
Shame like I had never experienced before the kind of shame that you forget how to breathe.
You don’t know where to go.
But I was also in this deep desire to hold on.”
And that was required to enter Pio," he said.
“This is why it feels like celestial mathematics.
It feels way too coincidental to be a coincidence.”
Through these meetings, LaBeouf said Ferrara reached out to him about playing the saint.
He says he saw the outreach as “a miracle.”
Through this research, he was encouraged to read the Bible and learned to “let go.”
“The reach-out had happened for me.
I was already there, I had nowhere to go.
This was the last stop on the train.
There was nowhere else to go, in every sense,” LaBeouf said.
“I know now that God was using my ego to draw me to Him,” he continued.
“Drawing me away from worldly desires.
It was all happening simultaneously.
LaBeouf said that as soon as he got there, though, a “switch happened.”
“It was like three-card monte.
It was like someone tricked me into it, it felt like.
Not in a bad way.
In a way that I couldn’t see it.
I was so close to it that I couldn’t see it.
I see it differently now that time has passed.”
