Shia LaBeouf Calls Doppelganger Who Got Sucker-Punched For ‘Looking Like Shia LaBeouf’

Taryn Ryder
·Writer, Yahoo Entertainment
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Mario Licato (left) resembles Shia LaBeouf. (Photo: Megan Adamson-Jackes; WireImage)

Shia LaBeouf can’t help but cause problems on the streets of New York even when he’s nowhere to be found.

Mario Licato, the man who got punched in the face while exiting a subway station last weekend for looking “exactly like Shia LaBeouf,” missed a call from his doppelganger after the headline-making incident.

Licato, a 26-year-old art director in digital advertising, told Cosmopolitan that LaBeouf “sounded bummed and genuinely really bad” about the altercation in a message.

“It was a pretty long voicemail. He was like, ‘Hey, this is Shia LaBeouf … I just read an article that you were punched in the face because you look like me?’ And he was like, 'Aw, man. That sucks. I’m so sorry. But I get it. It’s happened to me before.’ And then he was like, 'I don’t know. I wish I was in New York. I’d come bring you soup.’ He was just like, 'This sucks. I don’t even know what to say. I’m sorry. People are just crazy. Just because you look like me?’” Mario reveals. “And then he was like, 'Here’s my phone number… Call me back if you want to. We could chat. Let’s giggle over this. Maybe there’s a silver lining in all this… And once again, this is Shia LaBeouf, the guy you got hit for looking like. And yeah, man, I’m sorry. I’m just really sorry.’ And he was like, 'Keep your head up, G.’ And that was it."

Licato added he could tell that Shia "just felt like s–t” about the whole thing. He also confessed to listening to the voicemail about five times already and that he planned to call the 29-year-old Transformers actor back after work and a glass of wine.

“I’m just going to be like, 'Hey, what’s up,’” Mario continued. “Have a conversation… 'This guy must really hate you.’ I’m going to ask him what he did to him. What did you do to some random bro in New York that he needed to punch me for it? Did you steal his girlfriend? Maybe he just really hated you sitting in the movie theater for three days straight watching your own movies?"

If you get to the bottom of it, Mario, please let us know.