Shia LaBeouf spent months trying to convince people of his ‘art’ by getting naked in a music video then overplaying his hand in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. In addition to tales of using his own sex tape as his audition, his method drug-taking and method alcoholism, LaBeouf has also been selling Nymphomaniac as authentic for its supposedly non-simulated sex scenes. Only for the director himself to be all like, ‘Nah, we’re using stunt penises and green screens.’ I’m barely kidding, here is the actual quote the director gave The Hollywood Reporter: ’We shot the actors pretending to have sex and then had the body doubles, who really did have sex, and in post we will digital-impose the two. So above the waist it will be the star and the below the waist it will be the doubles.’
