Is anyone surprised? 2 actors with reputations for difficult behavior... one of them was likely to cut and run.
Interesting that ibdb identifies this as an "original" play, given that it's been around since 1983, there's a movie, and every college and amateur group with three guys has done it.
Updated On: 2/20/13 at 01:24 PM
This was an interesting mix of people to begin with:
Dan Sullivan, generally perceived to be one of the most laid-back directors around.
Alec Baldwin, temperamental but professional with a genuine dedication to the theater, little patience for f**k-ups.
Shia LaBeouf, chaotic, no theater experience to speak of.
ORPHANS can be a very satisfying play if done right. Baldwin seems perfect casting...hope all ends well.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Remember that Jan Maxwell skated out of Entertaining Mister Sloane back in '09 because of Baldwin's hijinks. (I'm not implying that Baldwin had anything to do with L'affaire LaBeouf.)
Shia has a pretty sketchy rep as well--I wouldn't lay this on Baldwin. I love the play--and have a (partly unfair) hate-on for Shia, so this makes me want to see it more.
Yeah, I'm gonna say it wasn't Baldwin's fault. Even if it was, I couldn't care less, I'm just glad that LaBeouf has nothing to do with this production at this point, good riddance!
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I said this in the other thread but I've never heard anything particularly good about LeBeouf and anyway Tom Sturridge was probably going to act rings around him, he's a really gifted little stage actor.
And Shia would? As I said, I'm no fan, but whatever fanbase he had seems to be increasingly disappeared. His last few hits have not been hits because of his name...
Those emails are hysterical. Who's Sulyboy? And I must remember to never eat steak served by Shia (ironic given his last name).