On Honey Boy, director Alma Har’el waded through “a burning mist of pain” to hit upon the raw truth she says she values most. Coming to her via Shia LaBeouf—who began writing the script in court-or…
—who began writing the script in court-ordered therapy—the film examines the turbulent coming of age of an actor estranged from his father. From the beginning, Har’el saw a story that could speak powerfully to the therapeutic value of art. But to tell it with emotional authenticity, she would have to convince her frequent collaborator to do the unthinkable: to revisit his traumatic past, from the perspective of his abuser.
You know, it’s something that I’ve seen. I’ve met Shia in very special circumstances, where he’s been extremely generous towards me and my work. But I have seen him be generous towards so many other people—people that know him closely, and know his work that he does in his theater, and the way he is with people on his films, like Zack [Gottsagen] in. He has a huge heart, he’s a huge talent, and he struggles with real issues.
People also have different coping mechanisms. I know people that grew up like me that have zero patience for people that perpetuate the behavior that they suffered from. I really feel like there is no freedom without forgiveness and compassion.
So, it was very challenging. I think that having compassion for the person who’s caused you the most pain, but you love the most—and then doing that while seeing other people, like Lucas [Hedges] and Noah [Jupe], performing you, or a version of you, in front of you—I can’t imagine what it must have felt [like] for him. Creating the space through all of that was very much a psycho-magical-cinematic experience, and I think that the rawness of that is on the screen.
But then, a few days ago, he posted on Facebook, on my page for the first time, about the film. He wrote that he watched the cut many times, and that he laughed and cried and accepted it, and thanked me for doing a great job, and said that it’s a wonderful film that exposes so much. So, that was really, I think, the closure I was hoping for.
There’s incredible films out there that do a great job of creating the feeling of life, a sense of life, and there’s incredible actors that can perform a character, but it’s a different thing than really being that character for that period of time, and somehow managing to capture something, in a way that it has its own life.
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