Shia LaBeouf has hit back at Alec Baldwin after the “30 Rock” star suggested that his former “Orphans” costar wasn’t made for Broadway.
LaBeouf took to Twitter again to post an e-mail from director Dan Sullivan that implied Baldwin had not rehearsed for the play.
“Don’t be too surprised if Alec doesn’t look up from his script much for the first few days,” Sullivan wrote. “I suspect he’s not nearly as prepared as you are. Not unusual at all when actors have a good long rehearsal time like we have. I just don’t want it to throw you. I did a reading of another play once with Alec and about 10 minutes in I thought, ‘Oh, I guess he’s just going to read it.'”
LaBeouf also posted an e-mail exchange with Baldwin. After the actor complains that he feels tired, LaBeouf counters, “I’m a hustler. I don’t get tired. I’m 26, chief.”
Baldwin responds by writing, “Listen, boy. I’m not your [bleep]in’ chief. You got that? Ha. Hahahahaha. Let’s go.”
The war of words erupted late last month after the “Transformers” actor abruptly dropped out of his Broadway debut.
Two weeks ago, LaBeouf tweeted screen shots of his e-mail exchanges with the hotheaded Baldwin, Sullivan, playwright Lyle Kessler and ex-costar Tom Sturridge.
The 26-year-old also tweeted, “The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash. Acting is not for gentlemen or bureaucratic-academics. What they do is antiart.”
Baldwin has since shot back, telling Vulture on Monday, “I don’t think he’s in a good position to be giving interpretations of what the theater is and what the theater isn’t”
He continued, “I mean, he was never in the theater. He came into a rehearsal room for six or seven days and, uh — you know, sometimes film actors — I mean, there are people who are film actors who have a great legacy in the theater….And many film actors, though, who are purely film actors, they’re kind of like celebrity chefs, you know what I mean? You hand them the ingredients, and they whip it up, and they cook it, and they put it on a plate, and they want a round of applause. In the theater, we don’t just cook the food and serve it. You go out in the garden and you plant the seeds and you grow it.”