Shia LaBeouf Talks Taking It All Off

First Published: August 27, 2012 11:40 AM EDT Credit: Getty Images

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Caption Shia LaBbeouf attends The Cinema Society & Manifesto Yves Saint Laurent screening of The Weinstein Company’s ‘Lawless’ at The Paley Center for Media, New York City, on August 13, 2012Just because Shia LaBeouf appears completely nude in the new Sigur Ros video and has said he’s willing to perform real sex acts in Lars Von Trier’s upcoming “The Nymphomaniac,” that doesn’t mean he’s going through an exhibitionist phase.

The 26-year-old actor says he’s “not choosing to be naked all the time” and that he “didn’t get into (acting) to be a porn guy.”

“We were just playing characters,” he explains.

Still, the 8 1/2 -minute video for “Fjogur Piano” shows the “Transformers” star naked and caressing the bare breasts of his female co-star. He said people have been responding well to the video so he feels “quite confident” about his performance.

LaBeouf does not get naked in “Lawless,” opening Wednesday, about a West Virginia moonshine business during the Prohibition era.

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