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There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that electric chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

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Shia LaBeouf
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: June 11
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