Actor Shia LaBeouf quit the upcoming Broadway play Orphans last week, citing “creative differences,” and at first producers and his co-star Alec Baldwin were quick to call the split “amicable.” That was before LaBeouf decided to offer proof that there had been no hard feelings, by tweeting extracts from emails between him, Baldwin, and director Daniel Sullivan. “You tried to warn me,” Sullivan wrote to LaBeouf in one email. “You said you were a different breed. You [and Alec] were incompatible.” In another, Baldwin told LaBeouf, “I don’t have an unkind word to say about you. You have my word.” LaBeouf’s tweets caused Baldwin to reconsider his friendly feelings. “You expect communications to be private, because everyone wants this process to be as collegial as possible,” he said. “Everyone is very sad about what’s happened.”
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