Well, the only way we'll know if this is a compliment or a diss is if we read the rest of the article.
Maybe... it's a little bit of both?
But don't take the words too personally to heart, considering the two are good friends. It's all in good fun.
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Shia LaBeouf Compares Tom Hardy To A 'Gorilla' On Set
So Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy were in a movie together.
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It came out like 7 years ago, so you should know this already.
It's called Lawless, and it's about bootlegging Bondurant brothers and their run-in with a mad lawman from Chicago.
Even though the movie is pretty old...
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It came up recently in an interview.
Shia himself was talking to The Hollywood Reporter (with a bunch of other actors) and was asked what the most intimidating thing he's faced in his career was.
He replied:
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He continued with that sentiment, likening Tom Hardy to a Gorilla.
But why a Gorilla? Because Tom is the alpha male on the set:
"Well, he runs the set. He’d pee in the corners. It’s his set, you know it when you get there."
What? He peed in corners?
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Well, there might be a smidge of hyperbole in there, but the point was this:
"It doesn’t feel like a shared space, it feels like his space. And he’s a very good actor and also super-loving, but on a set, you’re in his church."
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