- At age 10, LaBeouf performed stand-up comedy in adult clubs, where alcoholic drinks reportedly had to be removed from tables while the minor was onstage.
- He recalled that his circus-performer father trained a chicken named Henrietta Lafowl to jump through flaming hoops.
- In 2012, LaBeouf appeared in Artist Alley at Chicago’s C2E2 convention to sell self-published independent comics.
- For the 2014 performance project #METAMARATHON, he ran 144 laps around Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum in purple athletic wear, accompanied at times by members of the public.
- His 2015 project #ALLMYMOVIES involved sitting through 27 of his films in reverse chronological order over roughly 60 hours at New York’s Angelika Film Center; admission was free and his reactions were livestreamed.
- The viral ‘Just Do It’ speech was not originally a standalone motivational video. It came from #INTRODUCTIONS, a Central Saint Martins student collaboration, and was devised by art student Joshua Parker as a satire of corporate fitness messaging.
- LaBeouf completed the screenplay that became Honey Boy while in rehabilitation. The title was his father’s nickname for him, and an early version listed the invented name Otis Lort as a co-writer.
