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Shia LaBeouf Will Do 'Whatever Is Asked' For 'Nymphomaniac'

'[Director Lars von Trier] is very dangerous,' LaBeouf tells MTV News. 'I'm terrified.'

It appeared that Shia LaBeouf's experience with onscreen nudity wouldn't end with the recent Sigur Rós video. Last week, word came down in the line that he would star in Lars von Trier's next movie "Nymphomaniac." Reports of the casting left several big questions about LaBeouf's involvement unanswered, but in a recent interview with MTV News' Josh Horowitz, the actor let us in on all the messy details.

The "Melancholia" director's next film is said to follow a woman throughout her sexual life. What gives "Nymphomaniac" that signature von Trier spin of controversy is that the Danish director plans to make two versions of his film, one less explicit than the other. Early talk even suggested that the hard-core version would include unsimulated sex scenes.

LaBeouf joining the cast seemed to imply that he too would participate in the explicit scenes, and he confirmed that he is willing to go as far as von Trier asks.

LaBeouf told MTV News that he knows what he's getting into with "Nymphomaniac." "[Von Trier] is very dangerous," he said. "He's the most dangerous dude that I've ever showed up for. I'm terrified. I'm so terrified, which is why I have to go. We'll see what happens."

But how far will LaBeouf and von Trier go with "Nymphomaniac"? "[The movie] is what you think it is," LaBeouf said. "It is Lars von Trier, making a movie about what he's making. For instance, there's a disclaimer at the top of the script that basically says we're doing it for real. Everything that is illegal, we'll shoot in blurred images. Other than that, everything is happening."

"Nymphomaniac" won't be the first movie to show actual sex onscreen. "Intimacy" from director Patrice Chéreau famously went there in 2001, but LaBeouf said von Trier's movie will be different, adding that he and the rest of the cast are prepared for anything. "Whatever is asked. I think we all are," he said. "I've seen 'Intimacy.' [Von Trier is] talking about something different. ... It's going to be a wild movie."

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