“Alma Har’el admits there were times when she could see hints of the aggressive person Shia LaBeouf was known for in the tabloids.
“She wouldn’t think much of it, though, as that persona was far from the sensitive actor who loved her first movie, the 2011 documentary “Bombay Beach,” which led to them becoming friends and collaborators.
“But by July 2017, after she saw a video TMZ obtained of an intoxicated LaBeouf shouting expletives at a Savannah, Georgia, police officer and charged with public intoxication (later footage showed him shouting racist remarks to a black officer at the police station), she was extremely concerned for her friend.”
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