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| Shia LaBeouf apologizes to lookalike who got sucker-punched | Shia LaBeouf apologizes to lookalike who got sucker-punched |
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| A man assaulted in New York for looking like Shia LaBeouf got a call from the actor himself in commiseration. | A man assaulted in New York for looking like Shia LaBeouf got a call from the actor himself in commiseration. |
| Mario Licato, an advertising art director, was sucker-punched in a Lower East Side subway station on Saturday night. “While I was falling down the stairs, all I hear was, ‘This is because you look exactly like Shia LaBeouf,’” Licato told Gothamist. | |
| Related: Shia hell? Watching LaBeouf watching LaBeouf | Related: Shia hell? Watching LaBeouf watching LaBeouf |
| According to an interview Licato conducted with Cosmopolitan, LaBeouf read about the incident, prompting him to contact Licato. The actor left a comment on his Instagram page advising Licato to check his work voicemail. “Feel better G,” the comment concluded. | According to an interview Licato conducted with Cosmopolitan, LaBeouf read about the incident, prompting him to contact Licato. The actor left a comment on his Instagram page advising Licato to check his work voicemail. “Feel better G,” the comment concluded. |
| “It was a pretty long voicemail,” Licato said. “He was like, ‘Hey, this is Shia LaBeouf … I just read an article that you were punched in the face because you look like me?” And he was like, ‘Aw, man. That sucks. I’m so sorry. But I get it. It’s happened to me before.” And then he was like, ‘I don’t know. I wish I was in New York. I’d come bring you soup.’ He was just like, ‘This sucks. I don’t even know what to say. I’m sorry. People are just crazy. Just because you look like me?’” | “It was a pretty long voicemail,” Licato said. “He was like, ‘Hey, this is Shia LaBeouf … I just read an article that you were punched in the face because you look like me?” And he was like, ‘Aw, man. That sucks. I’m so sorry. But I get it. It’s happened to me before.” And then he was like, ‘I don’t know. I wish I was in New York. I’d come bring you soup.’ He was just like, ‘This sucks. I don’t even know what to say. I’m sorry. People are just crazy. Just because you look like me?’” |
| Licato added that LaBeouf shared his phone number, requesting that he call him back to “chat” and “giggle over this”. He said the actor “sounded bummed and genuinely really bad”. | |
| According to Gothamist, no arrests have been made in connection with the attack. | |
| LaBeouf, who in recent years has become a performance artist as well as an actor, most recently inspired headlines for spending three days in a movie theater in downtown New York watching his own movies in reverse chronological order, as part of a performance art project, titled #allmymovies. | LaBeouf, who in recent years has become a performance artist as well as an actor, most recently inspired headlines for spending three days in a movie theater in downtown New York watching his own movies in reverse chronological order, as part of a performance art project, titled #allmymovies. |