Bryan Cranston launched a sharp attack on Shia LaBeouf after his Malcolm in the Middle his co-star Frankie Muniz revealed he was set to star in Holes before giving up, with Cranston’s advice to LaBeouf cutting to the chase.
In a new Squire In a video interview, Muniz, 40, told Cranston that he was hired to play the lead role of Stanley Yelnats in the 2003 Disney film before a competing offer came in.
“I had signed to be in the film Holesand filming was about to start 100%, and then Cody Banks got the green light,” he explained.
“They were like, ‘Which one do you want to do?'” Muniz chose agent Cody Banks, despite pressure from those around him to take the more dramatic role.
LaBeouf stepped in and the rest is history, Holes helped launch his career.
Muniz pondered the path not taken.
“I wonder what my career or life would have been [had I done Holes instead]. What could have come with that? Would I have been taken more seriously as an actor?”
Cranston’s response was instantaneous.
“You could have had Shia LaBeouf’s life,” he said with a sarcastic scoff and a hiss, before adding, “Save that one. Shia, get help!”
The comment carries weight given LaBeouf’s recent history.
Last month, the actor was arrested in New Orleans after getting into a fight during Mardi Gras. LaBeouf’s problems predate the New Orleans incident.
He was ordered to enter rehab following a 2017 arrest in Georgia for public drunkenness, and a lawsuit filed against him by FKA Twigs, alleging sexual assault, assault and emotional distress, was settled last July.
Muniz, meanwhile, appears to have made peace with his decision, noting that his path led him back to Malcolm in the Middle and, ultimately, a very different kind of life as a NASCAR driver.
