Christy Carlson Romano - Why I Don't Talk To Shia LaBeouf (with Lyrics & Subtitles)
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Christy Carlson Romano - Why I Don't Talk To Shia LaBeouf (en) Lyrics
- So here's why I don't talk
to Shia LaBeouf anymore.
Everybody always asks
me this question.
If we're still in touch, if
we're still friends.
To be honest, I don't even really know
if we were ever really friends,
but we were coworkers.
We had this sort of like very
good onscreen chemistry.
People assumed that we
were in real life,
brother and sister,
and that in real life,
I had an influence over
what this guy did.
Watch "Honey Boy" and it's like
he's a completely traumatized
young man,
at the same time that I'm
working with him.
I'm honored that people would think
that I would still be
in touch with him
because it means that we
really did a good job
of making you guys think that
we were real life, brother and sister.
But in reality, it just
wasn't like that.
We weren't really close.
So I remember meeting Shia
in the green building
of Disney Channel.
We did our chemistry read,
which means that
you have an actor and the other
actor comes together
to see if they have chemistry.
Apparently we did, spoiler alert.
He had two different colors
of hair on his head.
It was my first impression of him.
So he had like blonde splotches
of highlights.
He had like clothes that
were not fitting him.
He just looked the part.
He looked like a scrappy, young kid.
And I come in with like
a Ralph Lauren suit,
super high turtleneck, my hair
in butterfly clips,
and I just was like going for it.
I was like, "This is me."
And I was the character and he
was obviously the character.
And I think in some ways it was
lightning in a bottle.
Not just for me, but for the
channel and the producers,
because I'm sure they were
tasked with this big job
of having to find the right kids.
They probably were super happy,
which is what I felt come
off of that room.
The energy that came off of that
room was just so exciting.
We were these young kids put in
this very unique situation.
We had very raw talent.
He had a knack for comedy
and my comedy
was a lot more of a straight man.
And so we were like an instant
comedic team.
And so from there we got the parts,
we're so excited, we
to show up to set,
I remember seeing his mom.
His mom is a vibe and
I wish her the best.
It's weird you know, it's like I said,
people just assume you know people
just because you work with them.
And you really don't,
like I didn't know
a lot of the backstories that came out
about where they were
living at that time
and how much hardship they'd
seen and stuff like that.
And like, I just kick myself 'cause
I really do kind of wish
if I had known anything about him,
I could have been a little
bit more patient?
I don't know, but I was dealing
with my own thing.
I was moving cross country
for the opportunity.
I was kind of sad about a breakup
or something when I was 16
and I was dealing with my own drama,
you know, more kid stuff, it just
kind of happened that way.
I'm trying to think about
the first time
that he and I really bonded.
And I think that was when
we went to Wango Tango,
which is this like big concert event.
We went together and I remember
seeing him out of work,
thinking to myself, "Wow. I
think he's really cool."
He was younger than me,
but he always had so much confidence.
He had so much confidence in himself,
so much confidence in just
being out and about.
And I was very nervous.
I had a lot insecurities
in being around people
and he just didn't ever have that.
He would go out and just
like do crazy, funny,
like almost like "Jackass"
or something like Johnny Knoxville.
He would go and he would do
crazy things to people.
And being around him felt dangerous.
Like even as a little
kid, it was like,
he's really cool and he's
wild, he's crazy Shia.
So the antics continued.
I guess because I had a
theater background,
I took my job very seriously.
Getting into character,
remembering my lines,
had a great time building
this character.
But over time it became a job.
And you know, you're tired
from doing other things,
trying to have a social life.
I think he was dealing
with so much more.
I mean, honestly when I look
back, I just feel stupid.
I know I'm not stupid because I care.
And I think I did care even then.
And I think that's why we had
a little bit of animosity.
I always wanted him to really appreciate
what I gave to him
and something that actually
really hurt my feelings
was when he won his Emmy award
and he was on the podium.
I was sitting there with
the rest of our team,
and he thanked everybody at the table
but he didn't thank me.
But I was hurt at the time because
I felt like since day one,
it was him and me.
It was like our show,
but because it was so life
or death for him,
it was his show.
And I was just like around,
'cause I was a girl.
I remember having a conversation
with him one time,
and I was like, "So whose career
do you think I'm going to have?
What career do you think
you're going to have?"
He was like, "I think of you
like Reese Witherspoon."
And at the time I was
so angry with him.
I got so miffed, I got
very easily miffed.
It was actually a really
big compliment.
He was very smart from a young age.
That's kind of the way that we
were, we were coexisting.
I was in school and then
a lot of times
he was doing his own schooling,
and I would film with my storyline
and he would be in his own storyline.
I don't know if the writers were
starting to split us up
because maybe they felt like the
chemistry wasn't there.
But I mean, maybe they just felt like
it was something that was done already
in the first season or two.
And they started to get us into
our own separate storylines.
So I didn't see him a lot.
He started to really
have his own life.
He started dating Margo Harshman.
He was like really good
friends with A.J.
A lot of really fun friends of his
that I still know that I grew
up with in the industry.
So we went to Hawaii to film
that "Even Stevens" movie.
And we had somebody that wanted
to show us the town.
I was about to go off to college
and he had really become a
young man at the time.
You know, I just felt like
he had grown up.
We were all about to split apart.
I got pulled into going out with
a locations person there
and he joined.
And so did the guy who played Mootai.
And we were all out,
and it was a Hawaiian tropics
swimsuit judging contest.
Will never forget that night.
That is a crazy, random night.
I'm sure he enjoyed it. (laughs)
What a crazy time. Anyway,
we had a blast.
I mean, obviously over the years
there were a lot of good
moments and you know,
I know that he cares a lot
about that timeframe.
Not only because was
a movie that he did
and exposing like all the stuff
that was going on behind the scenes,
but also because when he did
the performance art piece,
he had such love in his face,
when he watched "Even Stevens"
and he was smiling.
I'm piecing together reactions
from a person I don't know.
I want to give all the knowledge
that I have about this person,
but you know,
the person that I knew is not
the same person now,
just based on all of this life
experience that he's had.
And I'm not the same person
that he knew.
The only thing that I can say is that
I really do kind of wish at the
time that I was younger,
I would have given him a
little bit more time
and energy and love like
a real sister.
I really kind of regret that,
kind of makes me sad.
So everybody's got a Shia story.
He's like the new Kevin Bacon,
seven degrees of it.
And I always hear these funny stories.
And this is the other thing about
being celeb related.
Some people are like, "I
saw your brother."
I'm like, "He's not my brother."
He just popped up out of nowhere
and he was freestyle rapping
or, you know.
Like my husband randomly bumped
into him at a shooting range
and he was with a bunch
of military guys.
And my husband is a former marine.
They kind of chatted and he was like,
"Tell sis I said hi." That's
very sweet of him.
Very sweet of him to say hi.
The first or second to last
time I saw him in person
outside of the show I was 21,
hadn't seen him in years.
And so he was this big star.
And I was like, "Oh my God,
I'm so happy to see you.
I'm so happy for you."
And then I had a boyfriend at
the time on the red carpet,
obviously didn't turn out
being a great guy
and Shia was like protective
and he was like,
"Who's this guy? I don't
know who this guy is."
That was kind of funny.
Then I saw him at a club, we'd
both been drinking.
I was like, "You know
all of my friends
want to hook up with you."
He's like, "You know all my friends
It's kind of a silly, little
last moment to have with somebody.
It was one of those moments
where I was just like,
I didn't really know what
else to say to him.
We went from seeing each
other every day
to then not seeing each
other for years,
to him being this like huge star.
For a while I think the
ghost of who Shia was
and who he became was really
frustrating for me.
I didn't watch any of his movies.
I couldn't bring myself to watch
him because I thought,
"Oh, you know what?" Like
I was a bit salty.
I felt like he had gotten a better
agent, a better manager.
And so I kind of felt a little
jilted by the whole situation.
I was like, "Here he is,
making a big, old splash in Hollywood.
And here I am, I chose
to go to college."
And there's consequences
that come to that,
but like, there was definitely
an undercurrent of regret,
but also an undercurrent
of like comparison.
Sibling rivalry, if you will.
I think over time though, that
really mellowed out for me.
I never really stopped talking to him.
I think we just went in completely
different pathways of life.
You know, we were put together,
expected to create art together,
and grow up next to each other,
but it didn't make us family.
And in a weird way it also
did make us family
because there's only like 1%
of 1% of 1% of 1% of kids
that are like working actors
in a very specific part
of their adolescence.
So all the people that I know,
I may not have seen them in years,
but I guarantee if I saw him
walking on the street,
there would be a bond there
that is undeniable.
When you grow up with somebody
in that particular way,
at that particular time in your life,
you're bonded together.
You can't help but want to
see the person succeed.
You can't help but want to see them
get the help that they need or
the support that they need
or whatever it is that they need.
Would I ever talk to him again?
That's a logical question to ask,
people ask me that quite often,
it's a complex answer though.
I have a very specific life.
I am sober, I don't drink alcohol.
I have a very specific amount
of time and energy
that I can put towards having
anyone in my life.
That's for business, that's
for pleasure,
that's for anything, I just
don't have a ton of time.
If I'm around somebody
or taking the time
to invest in a friendship,
it needs to be with somebody
that I can trust,
understands, and respects
me on an equal level.
I'm not sure how he ever felt about me
to be honest with you.
He never really let me know.
Sadly, I feel like there was a
missed opportunity to bond.
I have heard from other people
that he stopped hanging
out with people
because he felt like their
intentions weren't pure.
I get that, when you
become a mega star
you don't want to do that, right?
You don't want to hang out with
people that you can't trust.
It has nothing to do with celebrity
and everything to do with
your mental health.
So Shia, if you see this
know that I love you.
I'm sorry that we didn't connect
more when we were kids.
And I really do hope that
you are taking it one day at a time.
Say hi to your mom for me,
she's a wonderful lady.
Be well, 'cause I'll always love you.
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