Shia LaBeouf said he reconciled with longtime co-star Jon Voight after a years-long estrangement prompted by their opposing views on former president Donald Trump.
LaBeouf, 39, discussed the outreach in an interview about Megadoc, a documentary that follows director Francis Ford Coppola’s effort to mount the 2024 film Megalopolis. He said the reconciliation came as part of work on the ninth step of a recovery program he is following and described a previous falling-out that ended in silence between the two men. According to Entertainment Weekly, LaBeouf said, "I had to go make amends to Voight because Voight’s politics and mine are very different. I love him very much."
LaBeouf and Voight first worked together on the 2003 film Holes and reunited for the 2007 blockbuster Transformers. LaBeouf told the documentary that Voight was an early mentor who introduced him to acting techniques and the work of actors such as Dustin Hoffman. He said their relationship fractured during the presidency of Donald Trump after arguing with Voight about politics.
"We had a big fight on the phone where I told him I was going to come to his house, and we were going to fist fight, and I hung up the phone," LaBeouf said. "Didn't talk to him for years." LaBeouf said he later reached back out to Voight to make amends.
Voight, a long-established conservative in Hollywood, publicly endorsed Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Earlier this year, Voight, along with Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone, was named by Trump as a "special ambassador" to Hollywood in remarks about revitalizing the film and television industry.
LaBeouf has been publicly opposed to Trump. In 2017 he helped launch an anti-Trump art project titled "He Will Not Divide Us," which invited participants to chant the phrase in protest; the installation was moved several times and ultimately dismantled after incidents of vandalism and public-safety concerns.
Megadoc chronicles Coppola’s efforts to film Megalopolis, a high-profile project that opened in 2024 and performed poorly at the box office. The documentary includes commentary from several people involved in the making of the film, and LaBeouf is among those featured discussing both the production and his personal interactions with colleagues.
LaBeouf described Voight as "the first real actor I ever met" and praised the older actor's guidance. A representative for Voight declined to comment to Fox News Digital.
The reconciliation highlights a broader pattern in which political differences have strained relationships within the entertainment industry. In this instance, both actors ultimately participated in the same film project and, according to LaBeouf, were able to move past a period of estrangement rooted in divergent political beliefs.
LaBeouf's comments on Megadoc add to public accounts of his recovery efforts and his attempts to repair personal relationships. Megadoc and related interviews mark another chapter in the public conversation about how artists manage professional collaboration amid ideological divides.