The Curious Case of Shia LaBeouf
because not enough Catholics have given their opinions on this yet, amIright? 🙃
I wish I could tell you I’m not the kind of person who follows celebrity commentary.
I wish I could tell you I’m not the kind of person who couldn’t give a thesis statement on the Don’t Worry Darling movie premiere drama.
I wish I could tell you Bishop Barron interviewed Shia LaBeouf and I didn’t spend all day reading the reactions.
But those would all be lies and lying is a sin, SO. Here we are.
If you haven’t heard of Shia LaBeouf since Even Stevens or this gem my Mizzou seniors made me watch post-Bible study one night, let me catch you up. After starring in a weird robot movie and a Sia music video, he found himself in public relations crisis after crisis. Drinking, racism, the works, all leading up to his former girlfriend claiming he was abusive towards her. Flash forward a handful of years. He’s now married, with a baby, and has converted to Catholicism after starring in a movie about Padre Pio.
It’s been a wild ride, folks.
Bishop Barron recently posted a long-form interview with Shia, and it left me with questions. No answers, if we’re being honest; just two important questions. I see these two questions being conflated so I tried to separate them here in order to find some clearer answers together.