On the Set of 'Eagle Eye' With Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan
By Heather Newgen, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
HW: This is the second time working with director D.J. Caruso. Can you compare what it is like working for him on this film verses Disturbia?
SL: Well the last movie we were in a room for three months. This, we haven't been in the same room for two days. It's very different. There's an Easy Rider element to this where we're never in the same spot too long. It's a journey film where as Disturbia was sort of this very different movie. D.J. is an ace. It's awesome to watch him grow and me grow and we're doing it together. Our cast this time is crazy. We both can feel it. To have Michelle here and Billy Bob here. Having [Michael] Chiklis. Our cast is really strong. Mackie [Anthony] and Rosario [Dawson]. We didn't have this amount on the last. It was a lot of just me and him and the camera. This time it's bigger. It's fun to watch him sprouting. It's wild. I love D.J. I love working with him.
HW: Can you go back to talking about how your characters first meet?
SL: She's just lost her child.
MM: I'm a single mom whose son has been put into some dire straights. I'm basically forced by Aria to make some pretty split decisions. Essentially how far would you go to save someone's life. We first meet in a car. He bails into a car because he's been told to come into the car and I think he's basically responsible for the kidnapping of my son.
SL: I think she's the voice on the other end. We're figuring each out on the run. It's not like we're instant friends. I don't know who she is. There's still that air of mystery.
MM: And mistrust. That mistrust kind of carries us throughout the film.