Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Shia Updates EW On Hand Injury

Entertainment Weekly has posted an article that provides an update on the condition of Shia LaBeouf's injured left hand from a car accident, working on set with the injury and another near miss. The full interview is here.
What's been going on with your hand since the first surgery?
I've had screws and plates put in. They put a screw in one of my knuckles. And they shaved a piece of bone off my hip and made a [bone for my] finger out of it.

Was your hand out the window of the vehicle when it got injured?
Yeah.

How is the hand now?
I'm on my third surgery. That's coming up in a week or two [from April 2]. My middle finger is still crooked as a f---ing noodle, so they've gotta straighten it out and put a screw in it.

How long will it take to recover from this third surgery?
I imagine like two months and I'll be back on my feet.

How much usage will you get back of your left hand?
Probably about 80-something percent. I'll be able to make a fist again. There's a knuckle I'll never be able to move again, but that's probably the only permanent damage, other than the scarring.

What do you remember of the initial surgical procedure?
The first voice I heard when I came out of surgery was Harrison's. Harrison [Ford] called me on the phone and said, "Hey, are you okay?" I said, "Yeah, I'm good." He said, "Well, then you need to get back to work." I said, "Are you serious?" He said, "That's the way this cookie crumbles." So I went back to work. The show doesn't stop for anybody.

And of course Harrison, your costar in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, shot most of the second Indy movie with a seriously screwed-up back. How soon did you go back to work?
I was only down for two weeks. The average bone healing time is six months.

Did you consider postponing your return to the set at all?
When I came back it was just out of the guilt that I had. I pride myself on my professionalism, and this is the first issue I've ever had where I wasn't able to come to set, and it's f---ing heartbreaking when you gotta look at your crew. You know, what can you do? You just gotta grab your balls and move forward. There's nothing else to do. The thing that cut deep to the core of me was knowing that there were 65 human beings [in the crew] who are like family to me, waiting for me to come back. They were sitting on their asses doing nothing because of my...you know, my situation. It's the most intense s--- I've ever dealt with, and am still dealing with. I mean, if people look at me like a drunk a--hole, that's okay. But I know my family looks at me like a whole different person, and I know my crew respects me immensely. And at the end of the day, I can't do much more.

How debilitating has it been to have no use of your left hand all these months?
It's hard to do anything. It's hard to button your pants or brush your teeth, let alone jump off a three-story building into a pad. This movie was the most physical thing I've ever had to do, and I had to do it with a broken hand. It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. Constantly having to take hits and fall and run through explosions and get hit and beat up all day. Aside from my hand, I also got 25 stitches making this movie, in various parts of my body -- stuff that had nothing to do with my hand.

In October, there was a report that you got hit with a prop just above one eye and needed stitches.
I basically stuck a f---ing sharp object through my eyelid.

Michael Bay, your director, says it was a large prop of some kind that caught you, which he didn't want to identify or describe because it's a plot spoiler. He also says he dropped to his knees as soon as he heard someone on the set say, "There's blood."
They stitched me up in a military hospital. The doctor looks at me and he holds his thumb and forefinger about an inch apart from one another. I said, "What is that?" He said, "Blindness." This is the most insane s--- I've ever been a part of.

10 comments:

  1. Although i do feel sorry for him he is a bit silly putting his hand outside the window of the moving vehicle and probly deserved what he got.

    Hopefully it is all healed now.

    Get better soon Shia :)

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  2. "Although i do feel sorry for him he is a bit silly putting his hand outside the window of the moving vehicle and probly deserved what he got."

    So you're saying the next time I drive with my hand out the window I deserve to get hit by a drunk driver? And when my hand gets smashed it's somehow MY fault?

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  3. So you're saying the next time I drive with my hand out the window I deserve to get hit by a drunk driver? And when my hand gets smashed it's somehow MY fault?And who did drive with his hand out of the window, you, or the drunk driver? :P From what i know, air bags don't work outside of the car :P

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  4. "The average bone healing time is six months."

    That is BS. The average healing time for bone is 4-6 weeks.

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  5. shia just seems to go along with life like the wind and doesn't care what happens to his life. shia is basically saying he is who he is and there's nothing he can do about it. %-S

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  6. I wonder if Sams mom will cut him some slack about Sams "happy time" since his right has been out of commission for a while. :p

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  7. What a massive douche.

    "This is so intense! I jumped onto a huge mat! Can you believe I did that? My life is just so hard and wild and crazy and everything. Can you believe any of this crazy stuff?! It's unbelievable!!!"

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  8. THEY SAID HE GOT HIT ABOVE THE EVE WITH A SHARP MOVIE PROP THAT WAS KEPT A SECRET, SOUNDS LIKE THE ALLSPARK SHARD TO ME, AND HOW DID IT HAPPEND, WERE THEY PLAYING FOOTBALL WITH THE SHARD OR SOMETHING.

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  9. ^^^ Let me guess... Your parents name are Shift and Caps Lock?

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  10. Man I've been a fan of transformers since i was a kid in the 90's. Optimus Prime was a child hood hero although all we could ever afford as kids were the cheap McDonalds Beast Wars. But I bet the studio had a crap load of Los Angeles injury attorneys to protect them.

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