Shia LaBeouf Sets the Record Straight on the Rumor That He Knocked Out Castmate Tom Hardy on Set of LAWLESS

Apparently there’s been a rumor circulating for years that on the set of the 2012 movie Lawless Shia LaBeouf knocked out Tom Hardy. People said they didn’t get along, that they fought, and that LaBeouf got one over on Hardy. I hadn’t heard this rumor until writing this article, but would find this hard to believe because of the size difference, and it just seems like even though LaBeouf has had outbursts in public, the people who have worked with him have actually liked him quite a bit, and Hardy seems like a very sweet person as well. So finally, seven years later, LaBeouf has weighed in on what actually happened in the tussle.

In a recent episode of the hot wing-eating talk show, First We Feast, host Sean Evans asked Labeouf, “Are the rumors of you knocking out Tom Hardy on the set of Lawless overstated?” And LaBeouf replied, saying:

“Yeah, it’s a bunch of bullshit. We used to wrestle all the time, and he was just a big fucking person, especially then, he was getting ready for Bane. One time, yeah so, my girlfriend at the time was over at my house and we were on his balcony and we saw him and his trainer coming back from the gym. And we used to fuck with each other all the time, but it just so happened that this one week my girlfriend was in town. And he runs into the room, and the girl I was with at the time was terrified, and she was like, ‘Aaaagh!’, and she covered up she and ran into the kitchen. And he picked me up, and I didn’t have nothing on. So now I’m naked on his shoulder, we’re in the hallway, we’re wrestling around. And I’m like, ‘Peanut,’ Peanut’s filming it all, and I’m like, ‘Peanut, you can’t be filming this shit,’ and we’re like wrestling, and then like I got upset about it because he got the better of me, but I’m in like some weird twisty naked position. Like my shit’s over here, and his shit’s over here, and I’m like, ‘Ugh! Don’t!’, and we wind up inching over like to the stairs, where the stairs were, and he fell down the stairs and he wound up hurting his back. So for the rest of the shoot, he told everybody I had knocked him out. But that wasn’t the case. We were having some weird, like, cutie wrestling match.”

That’s the greatest thing I’ve heard in a long time. I’m just post-Peanut Butter Falcon swooning over Shia LaBeouf over here, and then I get this story about him and Tom freaking Hardy naked wrestling. Thanks LaBeouf, I appreciate it.