Shia LaBeouf Dropped Real Acid For Scene, Because, Free Acid?

Shia LaBeouf has made a name for himself in Hollywood as being just a little bit on the crazy side.

Wait, edgy. It sounds nicer if I say edgy, right?

Either way, the young “Lawless” actor has been in and out of the media spotlight with his strange antics and trusty paper-bag face. Lately he caused a little stir of oh, yous, when he announced that he was more than willing to participate in non-simulated sex in the new Lars Von Trier film.

You know, because he’s a true artist and whatnot.

So there’s only so much scandal remaining around the news that, for the recently wrapped film “The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman,” LaBeouf helped himself to the real stuff when dropping acid for a pivotal scene.

“There’s a way to do an acid trip like ‘Harold & Kumar,’ and there’s a way to be on acid,” he told USA Today. “What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that chair in “Dead Man Walking. These are the guys I look up to.”

Wait, what guys? Either I’m missing a chunk of quote here or LaBeouf’s seeing actors again.

“Sometimes, it does get real,” he added sanely, “Too real for a [director] who’s trying to keep a diplomatic set.”

A director trying to keep a diplomatic set, or a director trying to juggle a bunch of cracked-out actors while LaBeouf prances around licking the caterers and stroking his babybeard?

Having real sex on-screen is one thing (porn—that’s the one thing), but how on Earth did LaBeouf get the okay to drop acid, film it, and then chat about it to the media?

Unless the conclusion of “Charlie Countryman” is LaBeouf getting hauled off to “Celebrity Rehab,” I’m beginning to question the issues of legality surrounding this film.