‘Slauson Rec’ Review: Shia LaBeouf Inspires Wannabes — and Frequently Turns on Them — in an Intimate Chronicle of His Theater Experiment
Newcomer director Leo Lewis O’Neil, responsible for the cinematography, was among the 200 individuals who reacted to Shia LaBeouf’s 2018 Twitter video announcing a free weekly theater program at the Slauson Recreation Center in South Los Angeles. The majority, similar to O’Neil, were enthusiastic fans of the actor, who was then between film projects and had an unusual creative urge to fulfill. Unlike his peers, however, O’Neil wasn’t keen on acting but eagerly offered his assistance as an archivist for what LaBeouf would later characterize as a “social science experiment.