Shia LaBeouf Called The Dude Who Got Clocked For Looking Like Shia LaBeouf

Last week, it was reported that a dude who bore an uncanny resemblance to Shia Labeouf was clocked by a stranger in the face, for no reason other than said resemblance to Shia Labeouf.
The dude, advertising art director Mario Licarto, has since ridden the fallout of the punch to the weirdest fifteen minutes of fame ever, culminating in a Cosmo interview, in which he revealed that Shia himself had called and left a voicemail.
The Transformers star and one-time dater of Rihanna (that’s a real thing that happened … the late 2000s were a weird time) was pretty broken up about the whole situation.
According to Licato:

It was a pretty long voicemail. He was like, “Hey, this is Shia LaBeouf … I just read an article that you were punched in the face because you look like me?” And he was like, “Aw, man. That sucks. I’m so sorry. But I get it. It’s happened to me before.” And then he was like, “I don’t know. I wish I was in New York. I’d come bring you soup.” He was just like, “This sucks. I don’t even know what to say. I’m sorry. People are just crazy. Just because you look like me?” I was obviously laughing the whole time. And then he was like, “Here’s my phone number. Don’t give it to anybody. Please, please, call me back. Call me back if you want to. We could chat. Let’s giggle over this. Maybe there’s a silver lining in all this. But call me back.” And then he was like, “And once again, this is Shia LaBeouf, the guy you got hit for looking like. And yeah, man, I’m sorry. I’m just really sorry.” And he was like “Keep your head up, G.” And that was it.


He sounded bummed and genuinely really bad. Like he just felt like shit. Like I can’t believe this happened. This sucks. And he was just like, “I wish I was in New York but I’m not.” I thought it was really funny that he wanted to bring me soup.
Licato hasn’t yet called Shia LaBeouf, but plans to do so next week, at which point the two of them will just whisper the words “Shia LaBeouf” to one another until they reach simultaneous, hands-free orgasm.
Source: Cosmo.
Photo: Ilya S Savenok via Getty Images.

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