Scott Eastwood recalls Brad Pitt breaking up 'volatile moment' he had with Shia LaBeouf on the set of 'Fury'

• Eastwood was spitting tobacco on the tank LaBeouf was riding and LaBeouf took offense.
• It led to the actors having an altercation and their costar, Brad Pitt, having to break them up.

Things got a little too heated on the set of David Ayer's 2016's World War II movie "Fury" between Scott Eastwood and Shia LaBeouf.

According to Eastwood, the two actors had a "volatile" encounter after LaBeouf saw Eastwood spit on his tank. In the movie LaBeouf is part of a tank crew that's led by Brad Pitt's character.

Though it was in the script that Eastwood was supposed to spit on the tank, LaBeouf didn't realize and took offense. According to Eastwood, Pitt had to break the two up.

"[LaBeouf] got mad at me and it turned into a volatile moment that Brad Pitt ultimately got in the middle of," Eastwood told Insider.

"I never think your process as an actor should ever hinder how people are treated on set," he added.

"It should always enhance the production, not take away and put people in a situation where it's a shitty work environment or you're rude or people have to be in an uncomfortable situation."

Representatives for LaBeouf and Pitt did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

Pitt spoke about the incident back in 2014 during a British GQ profile:

"We were driving down the road, I'm in the turret, Shia is at the other turret, and Scott is on the back, spitting [chewing tobacco]," Pitt said. "And I'm starting to get pissed off, I'm starting to get hot, because this is our home, he's disrespecting our home, you know? So I said, in the scene with the cameras rolling, 'You're going to clean that shit up.' Shia clocks it, and you have to understand, we've been through severe boot camp already, we've been through a lot in this tank. Shia saw it and felt the same — he's disrespecting our home. So Shia had the same reaction I did, and started having some words."

Pitt also said that when things escalated between Eastwood and LaBeouf beyond words he "had to get in" to break it up.

"The funny thing is," Pitt added to the magazine, "when we got home at the end of the day and read the script, it said Scotty's character is 'chewing tobacco and spitting it on the back of the tank.' He was just doing as instructed in the script! So we were the knobs in the end."

Eastwood told Insider, at the end of the day movies are just storytelling and things shouldn't get to that level to tell a story.

"You got to put things in perspective," he said. "This is make-believe, it's fun, and at times it's serious and you're doing emotional work and you give people space to do that in, but everything has to have its parameters."