Shia LaBeouf had to apologize to his “mentor” and staunch Trump supporter Jon Voight due to their differing political views, after threatening to fight him. The two men, 39 and 86, appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s panned passion project, Megalopolis, but fell out during the process. Speaking to Mike Figgis for Megadoc, a documentary about the making of the film, LaBeouf said they read the script through five years prior, but between then and filming, “I had basically f---ed my whole life up.” He said he and Trump’s special envoy to Hollywood, Voight, “had a big fight on the phone where I told him I was going to come to his house and we were going to fist fight, and I hung up the phone,” adding “I didn’t speak to him for years.” The pair had been close for a long time, working together first on Holes in 2003 and then on Transformers in 2007; “He was like my mentor from a young age,” he said. According to Entertainment Weekly, it was a condition of Coppola’s that LaBeouf clear the air before filming began. “I was in the midst of doing my ninth step in this program I’m in,” he said, “and I had to go make amends to Voight because Voight’s politics and mine are very different. I love him very much.”
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