Celebrities are 'enslaved', says 'Transformer' actor Shia LaBeouf
The "retired" celebrity and performance artist Shia LaBeouf has said that he's "enslaved" as a celebrity.
The "retired" celebrity and performance artist Shia LaBeouf has said that he's "enslaved" as a celebrity.
The Transformer actor-turned-performance artist, who as an executive producer debuted an "experimental" drama LoveTrue along with director Alma Har'el, said that he will never consider directing because he is a "performer", but even that has its problems because acting and performing are very different, E! Online reported.
The 28-year-old actor added that the craft of acting for film is terribly exclusive and comes with the baggage of celebrity, which robs one of his individuality and separates you. LaBeouf noted that the performance work is democratised and far more inclusive, adding that stars are beholden to everything else but themselves.
He explained that the requirements to being a star/celebrity are namely, one must become an enslaved body, just flesh, a commodity, and renounce all autonomous qualities in order to identify with the general law of obedience to the course of things. He added that the star is a byproduct of the machine age, a relic of modernist ideals. It's outmoded.