Shia LaBeouf, who has made a name for himself from Disney Channel's "Even Stevens" and the "Transformers" trilogy, was seen at the "Nymphomaniac" red carpet at the Berlin film festival wearing a paper bag on his head, on which he had written: "I am not famous anymore."
The quote is from LaBeouf's Twitter account, which he has posted on several occasions, along with remarks suggesting he has been unhappy with his high profile life and will be "retiring from all public life".
"Nymphomaniac", directed by Lars Von Trier, stars LaBeouf as one of the leading roles, along with Uma Thurman and Christian Slater. The film also made headlines because of LaBeouf and Thurman's steamy sex scenes. But when LaBeouf was asked about the topic during a press conference at the Berlinale International Film Festival, he got up and walked out.
Uma Thurman and Christian Slater were then left to make sardine jokes.
The film's director, Lars Von Trier, was a no-show at the press conference. No surprise there, given his remarks at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009 that he "understood" German dictator Adolf Hitler.
The media's coverage of LaBeouf has gradually been strained in the wake of several run-ins with the law in the US, and the fallout after he was accused of plagiarising a comic book for his 2013 short film HowardCantour.com. LaBeouf apologized for the plagiarism on his Twitter account, but his apology then provoked its own accusation of plagiarism.
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