“Shia LaBeouf was exploding on set.
He was screaming across a parking lot, where his character, based on my brother (a renowned Harvard psychiatrist who had a manic-bipolar episode in his 40s) was now breaking down. He’d given a performance so brilliant, and often so meta, that I didn’t cut right away — because we’d lost a clear sense of what was movie and non-movie…”
Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/shia-labeouf-angry-set-behavior-rooster-prince-1236812006/