Shia LaBeouf and Kristen Stewart are open books in Variety‘s new “Actors on Actors”.
The two stars got together and talked about their insecurities.
“I used to walk around with a pen and a pad, almost litigious, like: ‘Hey, what’s your name? Oh, cool.’ Then I’d write it in a little notepad.” LaBeouf told Stewart. “I wanted to seem studious because I didn’t go to school and I didn’t learn how to do this acting thing.”
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“I have this chip right here, too,” Stewart replied. “I read a lot. I’m always like, ‘I didn’t go to school but…'”
LaBeouf explained how working with someone like Anthony Mackie, who went to acting school, intimidates him: “He’s got technique. Those people make me very scared.”
“I feel judged, like I’m an outsider,” he continued. “If my knitting needle breaks, I don’t have a f**king knitting needle. Guys like that, their knitting needle breaks, and they’re, like, ‘Let me go in the kitchen and I’ll whip something together and I’ll come back and I’ll knit this sock for you.’”
Stewart also touched on the anxiety and nightmares she experiences as a result of time management.
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“Time management is such a huge thing with the job. Just the anxiety of not being in control of time is really maddening for me,” she shared. “I can’t sustain stuff because I just waste it. If I expend something, if something trickles out the wrong time, I am despondently unhappy because I’m, like, ‘Well, that was just for nothing.’
“I have dreams about it. That’s my work anxiety dream,” she added. “That all the timing is wrong, or they’re not rolling.”
LaBeouf and Stewart also talked about leading with love or fear on set, what makes them feel close to people, and more.
