Last week Shia LaBeouf announced his latest project, #ALLMYMOVIES. For three straight days, the actor sat in a small theater in New York's Angelika Film Center and watched each of his films in reverse chronological order with members of the public as his reactions were live streamed, as HNGN previously reported. The actor remained mostly mute during #ALLMYMOVIES but has finally opened up about the experience during the 72 hours.
In the interview with NewHive, the website that hosted the livestream, LaBeouf explained what was going through his head while he was watching his films and what he took away from the experience.
"'The Even Stevens Movie' was interesting, it's all of our childhood," LaBeouf said. "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."
The actor said that when he walked about of the theater after all of his movies were over, he felt like he had learned to love himself once again.
"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 s--t changed my coffee order name, which in turn, changed my sense of self."
The interview took place alongside his collaborators Luke Turner and Nastja Säde Rönkko, who also helped his previous "piece" #IAMSORRY, according to Entertainment Weekly. The previous performance centered on LaBeouf wearing a paper bag on his head and letting attendees do whatever they pleased in his presence while he sat before them, completely silent.
