Brad Pitt stopped ‘volatile’ fight between Shia LaBeouf and Scott Eastwood

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Brad Pitt stopped ‘volatile’ fight between Shia LaBeouf and Scott Eastwood Brad Pitt | Scott Eastwood | Shia LaBeouf Scott Eastwood has confirmed for the first time that he and his co-star Shia LaBeouf got into a fight so “volatile” Brad Pitt is a professional and ethical Hollywood actor. Brad Pitt has a good name among his colleagues. Brad Pitt is one of the most moral actors even after his separation from Angelina Jolie and his divorce drama. This time Brad Pitt prevented an argument between his two co-stars. Scott Eastwood has confirmed for the first time that he and his co-star Shia LaBeouf got into a fight so “volatile” while filming 2014’s “Fury” that Brad Pitt had to break it up. “[LaBeouf] got mad at me and it turned into a volatile moment that Brad Pitt ultimately got in the middle of,” Clint Eastwood’s son told Insider in an interview published Friday. “You’ve got to put things in perspective. This is make-believe, it’s fun, and at times it’s serious and you’re doing emotional work and you give people space to do that in, but everything has to have its parameters.” Pitt, 58, previously discussed the contentious on-set environment of the World War II flick in his GQ 2014 cover story, telling the mag that there had been sparring “every day.” The incident between LaBeouf and Eastwood, both now 35, apparently began because the latter was chewing tobacco and spitting it into the titular tank the film centers around. Pitt said he himself started to get “pissed off” over the behavior. While a rep for Pitt had no comment when reached Friday, the 58-year-old Oscar winner previously addressed the incident to British GQ in 2014. Pitt told the publication he had told Eastwood not to spit tobacco on the tank. "I'm starting to get pissed off, I'm starting to get hot, because this is our home, he's disrespecting our home, you know?" he said of Eastwood. Pitt continued, "So I said, in the scene with the cameras rolling, 'You're going to clean that s--- up.' Shia clocks it, and you have to understand, we've been through severe boot camp already, we've been through a lot in this tank. Shia saw it and felt the same — he's disrespecting our home." "So Shia had the same reaction I did, and started having some words," said Pitt. He said LaBeouf had the “same reaction,” which resulted in the “Transformers” star having “some words” with Eastwood, which “got out of hand.” However, Pitt said he and LaBeouf were ultimately at fault, calling them “the knobs in the end,” because Eastwood’s tobacco — and spitting — habit was in the film’s script. However, he added, "The funny thing is, when we got home at the end of the day and read the script, it said Scotty's character is 'chewing tobacco and spitting it on the back of the tank.' He was just doing as instructed in the script! So we were the knobs in the end ... " Eastwood told British GQ of the incident, "I was in the middle of a scene with Brad Pitt, and I was chewing tobacco. ... [Shia] didn't like what I was doing, so he said I couldn't be spitting tobacco on his tank, and he told me to clean it up." "I pretty much told him to f--- off, and Brad had to break it up," he added, calling LaBeouf "a complete pain in the ass." Pitt, however, told British GQ of LaBeouf, "He's one of the best actors I've ever seen. He's full-on commitment, man. He's living it like no one else, let me tell you. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great actors. He's one of the best I've seen." According to Eastwood, Brad Pitt, who also starred in the movie, stepped between him and LaBeouf to defuse the confrontation. (A rep for LaBeouf, 35, did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.) "I never think your process as an actor should ever hinder how people are treated on set," Eastwood told Insider. "It should always enhance the production, not take away and put people in a situation where it's a s---y work environment or you're rude or people have to be in an uncomfortable situation." Reports of LaBeouf’s behavior during the making of “Fury” threatened to eclipse the film: He refused to shower, had a tooth pulled for the role, and repeatedly cut his own face with a knife to give himself the character’s wounds. Brad Pitt stopped ‘volatile’ fight between Shia LaBeouf and Scott Eastwood | Brad Pitt Source People Page Six