Shia LaBeouf Shares Alleged Private Emails with Timothée Chalamet to Prove They’re ‘Good’

Shia LaBeouf wants fans to know he and Timothée Chalamet are on good terms.

On Monday, May 12, LaBeouf, 38, shared an alleged email exchange between him and Chalamet, 29, on X that was dated from October 2023.

“If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken, twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,” LaBeouf wrote in quotations on his post, quoting Rudyard Kipling’s poem “IF.” “Timothée Chalamet is doing better work than anyone alive – we been good,” he added of the Oscar nominee days after he called Chalamet’s February SAG Awards speech “cute.”

In the email exchange, Chalamet appeared to reach out to LaBeouf after seeing him in the play Henry Jones. “Absolutely blown away by your work the other night. Totally electric, totally present at every turn, king of your kingdom even if that kingdom is a miserable 4×4 prison cell,” Chalamet wrote, per the alleged email. “What a fantastic play. I hope you guys take it to New York. And I hope this is the beginning of your work on stage and not an anomaly !!”

LaBeouf responded to Chalamet’s message the following day by writing, “Thank you doggy / Every blessing to you / Fun watching you evolve / Take ownership / Bang bang.”

Representatives for Chalamet did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

In LaBeouf’s May 8 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the Honey Boy actor referred to Chalamet’s SAG Awards speech while discussing his own turn toward Catholicism in recent years.

“It changes the way you work, for sure,” LaBeouf said in that interview, after detailing a former feud he and Alec Baldwin had while they worked on the 2013 Broadway production of Orphans. “Me and Alec would never have these problems now. But I was in an island. Then I hear Timothée Chalamet get up and he says something like, ‘I want to be great,’ ” LaBeouf added. “I so know the feeling. On him, it’s cute. On me, it wasn’t cute. You know what I’m saying?”

In his speech after winning Best Actor for A Complete Unknown at the 2025 SAG Awards, Chalamet said, “I know we’re in a subjective business, but the truth is I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” he said. “I know people don’t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats.”

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LaBeouf has been mired in controversy in recent years over a lawsuit from ex-girlfriend FKA Twigs that she filed in December 2020, alleging he sexually and physically abused her during their relationship in 2018 and 2019.

That lawsuit is expected to go to trial later this year. LaBeouf has denied “each and every allegation” made against him by Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Barnett.

LaBeouf was confirmed into the Catholic Church in December 2023. He mentioned Chalamet’s SAG Awards speech when THR asked how his spiritual life has been going.