Shia LaBeouf’s Dad Has a Lot to Say

A chat with Jeff LaBeouf, the ex-clown, ex-con, and scary papa behind ‘Honey Boy’

Aaron Gell
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16 min readNov 7, 2019

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Credits: Amazon Studios; courtesy of Jeff LaBeouf

SShia LaBeouf’s 71-year-old father Jeffrey, whose turbulent life and parenting skills come in for unsparing scrutiny in the actor’s new autobiographical film, Honey Boy, is more than ready for his turn in the limelight. You can tell by the way he cheerfully agrees to an…

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Aaron Gell
GEN
Writer for

Medium editor-at-large, with bylines in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times and numerous other publications. ¶ aarongell.com