Photos of actor Shia LaBeouf dressed as a woman on the Megalopolis film set are creating buzz on social media. We see the actor, unrecognizable thus disguised as a woman of ancient Rome, alongside actresses Chloe Fineman and Isabelle Kusman.
In the photos released by the site Just Jared, we can see the actor Shia LaBeouf wearing a long flowing dress, very high heels and a lot of makeup on the set photos of “Megalopolis”, the next film from director Francis Ford Coppola.
The blockbuster American sci-fi film, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, has no announced release date at this time. This is a long-time project of the director, which he had dreamed of realizing for several decades.
It is the actor Adam Driver who will interpret the main role, evening that of an architect who tries to build a utopian vision of New York in the aftermath of a cataclysm.
The plot is inspired by the Catiline Conspiracy, an attempted coup in ancient Rome that was foiled in part thanks to the oratory skills of the Roman consul Cicero. The latter served as a model for the antagonist of the film, the mayor of New York, who will play Forest Whitaker.
Actor Jon Voight (who can also be seen in one of the set photos), James Remar, Aubrey Plaza and Nathalie Emmanuel are also part of the cast.
Coppola, 83, recently described the project as his most ambitious film “even more ambitious thanApocalypse Now » his cult Vietnam War film, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1979.