The One Hollywood Star Alec Baldwin Won't Share The Screen With

Alec Baldwin went on to explain how taken aback he was at Shia LaBeouf's outburst. "We all sat, frozen," he continued. "I snorted a bit, and, turning to him in front of the whole cast, I asked, 'If I don't say my words fast enough, you're going to just say your next line?' I said. 'You realize the lines are written in a certain order?' He just glared at me," the "Beetlejuice" star recalled. 

Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of the strife between the two performers, as Shia LaBeouf subsequently dropped out of the project altogether. This caused Baldwin to refer to him as something like a celebrity chef, with the implication seeming to be that though LaBeouf showed up for the gig, he wasn't ready to commit fully to the play.

"Some of the greatest movie stars had really serious theatre careers and still do," he explained. "And many film actors, though, who are purely film actors, they're kind of like celebrity chefs, you know what I mean?" For his part, LaBeouf was equally critical of Baldwin, citing comments from an email sent by director Daniel Sullivan that he had received with regard to the performer, suggesting that it was Baldwin who was underprepared.