Shia LaBeouf Talks ... Necrophilia?

A short Q and A with Shia LaBeouf star of Disney’s upcoming The Greatest Game Ever Played, as well as Holes and The Battle of Shaker Heights revealed he’s headed in some interesting directions with his career.

“I just finished a film before I got here called A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” It’s got Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson, Harvey Keitel, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest and Eric Roberts-the cast is amazing. It’s set, I think, to play Sundance, it’s about the life of this author Dito Montiel who grew up in the Queens in the 80’s and was the only person in his group of friends to make it anywhere in life. Everybody in his circle of friends either wound up in jail, or dead, or got AIDS, or addicted to crack. And Dito himself is directing it”

If such gritty drama seems like it’s opposite of The Greatest Game Ever Played and Holes check this out. “I love working with people my own age but so often the projects offered are such garbage. Well Amber Tamblyn and I found a script we love that’s sort of reminiscent of What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The project is called “Elvis and Annabel.” The story concerns a Texas beauty queen who dies of anorexia and winds up in a mortuary run by a hunchback who can’t work anymore. I would play his son who falls in love with her after she’s died.”

More in the vein of what people have come to expect from the actor is a nonetheless hilarious animated feature. “I’m not looking to go completely Christina Ricci on everybody but I do like to work in films that change the medium. Right now I’m doing voice work for an animated film called Surfs Up. The cast includes Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, John Heder and James Woods. It’s a “documentary” about how penguins started the sport of surfing.”