Shia LaBeouf RETURNS to Red Carpet for First Time in 4 Years E! News

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00:00 Shia LaBeouf returns to the red carpet for the first time in four years.

00:04 The Transformers actor makes a rare appearance at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

00:09 He can be seen wearing a black tuxedo and debuting dyed blonde hair at the premiere

00:14 of Francis Ford Coppola's new star-studded film, Megalopolis.

00:18 Shia, who last walked an official red carpet at the 2020 Oscars, was joined at the event

00:23 by several of his co-stars, including Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza and more.

00:28 The dystopian Megalopolis is the first feature film Coppola has directed since the 2011 movie

00:33 Twixt.

00:35 As for Shia, he last appeared in the film Padre Pio, released back in 2022.

00:40 He was initially supposed to appear in Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling, which also hit

00:44 theaters that year, but ended up leaving the production.

00:47 He later said he quit the film, contradicting the director's allegation that he was fired.

00:53 In a letter to Olivia Wilde posted by Variety in 2022, he said, "Firing me never took place,

00:59 Olivia.

01:00 And while I fully understand the attractiveness of pushing that story because of the current

01:03 social landscape, the social currency that brings, it is not the truth.

01:07 So I am humbly asking, as a person with an eye toward making things right, that you correct

01:12 the narrative as best you can," adding, "I hope none of this negatively affects you and

01:16 that your film is successful in all the ways you want it to be."

01:20 Olivia then doubled down on her claims that she fired the actor from Don't Worry Darling,

01:24 saying she made the decision to let him go after lead actress Florence Pugh was allegedly

01:29 uncomfortable with his behavior during pre-production.

01:32 She told Variety in an October 2022 cover story, "My responsibility was towards her.

01:37 He comes at his work with an intensity that can be combative.

01:40 It wasn't the ethos that I demand in my productions.

01:43 I want him to get well and to evolve because I think it's a great loss to the film industry

01:48 when someone that talented is unable to work."

01:50 "I think it's a great loss to the film industry when someone that talented is unable to work."

01:51 "I think it's a great loss to the film industry when someone that talented is unable to work."

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