Shia LaBeouf Fights for the Right to Pick His Nose in Public

Shia LaBeouf, star of the “Transformers” franchise, will soon be saying goodbye to director Michael Bay and the character he’s played in 3 movies so far, to move on to greener pastures and a different type of filmmaking, as he puts it in a brand new interview with Hero Complex.

He may be young but he definitely knows what he wants from life and, respectively, his career. As for the latter, he doesn’t want to be typecast, so he’s trying to break free from Bay and mentor Steven Spielberg , in order to focus on less action-oriented movies.

Shia will never be the kind of movie star that plays by the rules, for the simple reason that he simply can’t see how he could forego his entire life just to be the person other people are telling him to be.

Asked by the publication about his checkered past, which includes 3 separate arrests (but never a charge) and a car crash that left him in serious need of reconstructive surgery on his hand, Shia says he wants to be able to enjoy the right of picking his nose in public, if that’s what he wants to do.

“The way Steven described it to me was, ‘When Tom Cruise walks outside his house, he doesn’t pick his nose. From the minute he leaves his door to the minute he comes back home, he doesn’t pick his nose’,” Shia recalls of how Spielberg admonished him when his behavior started getting more media attention than his movies.

There’s just one problem with that, he says. “Now that’s a certain way to live your life that I have no ambitions toward,” he puts it bluntly.

Just as sure Shia is that he doesn’t want to continue making action movies. He believes he has what it takes to do more serious, dramatic roles, and he wants to be given a shot at proving his worth to the world.

“I’ve been running for a team of people for a long time and I don’t take any of it back… I’ve learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven’t been allowed to engage in yet,” he says.

Shia will be seen next in the indie project “The Wettest Country in the World.” Until then, though, he will grace the silver screen in “Transformers: The Dark of the Moon,” which is out in theaters around the world this week.