Olivia Wilde Avoids Shia LaBeouf Query, Addresses “Tabloid Gossip”

Final month, Olivia claimed that she fired Shia from the movie, telling Variety in an interview, “His course of was not conducive to the ethos that I demand in my productions. He has a course of that, in some methods, appears to require a combative vitality, and I do not personally imagine that’s conducive to the perfect performances.”

Olivia, who stated she admired Shia’s work, added, “In the end, my accountability is to the manufacturing and to the solid to guard them. That was my job.”

Days later, Shia claimed that he wasn’t fired from Do not Fear Darling, insisting that he quit on his own accord as a substitute.

“I’m significantly honored by your phrases on my work; thanks, that felt good to learn,” Shia wrote in an in depth electronic mail to Olivia, obtained by Variety. “I’m somewhat confused in regards to the narrative that I used to be fired, nonetheless. You and I each know the explanations for my exit. I stop your movie as a result of your actors & I could not discover time to rehearse.”

“Firing me by no means came about, Olivia,” he continued his message. “And whereas I absolutely perceive the attractiveness of pushing that story due to the present social panorama, the social foreign money that brings. It’s not the reality. So I’m humbly asking, as an individual with an eye fixed towards making issues proper, that you simply appropriate the narrative as greatest you may. I hope none of this negatively results you, and that your movie is profitable in all of the methods you need it to be.”

E! Information beforehand reached out to reps for LaBeouf and Wilde and has but to obtain a response.