Shia LaBeouf is a changed man.

The 33-year-old actor has a notorious history of bad behavior that has landed him in jail as well as court-ordered rehab. But those days may finally be over.

He credits his work on his new indie “The Peanut Butter Falcon” with Zack Gottsagen, an actor with Down syndrome, with helping him come around.

“I’m quite judgmental, the judge-y type,” LaBeouf said on the latest episode of “The Big Ticket,” Variety’s movies podcast. “You know, you’d be half-empty with me before we started our conversation. I was ... just a little edgy with the world, you know.”

Gottsagen, on the other hand, LaBeouf observed, “meets everybody like glass-full. Half nothing! Everybody starts at 100 with him. It makes it easier to live.”

“The Peanut Butter Falcon” follows the unlikely friendship between a man with Down syndrome (Gottsagen) and a criminal on the run.

LaBeouf hardly ever does press but happily walked the red carpet at the movie’s premiere, talking freely with reporters with Gottsagen by his side. At the junket, he welcomed celebrity news shows, including “Extra” and “Entertainment Tonight,” outlets he usually shunned because of their coverage of his private life.

“I’m just smiling a lot more,” LaBeouf said. “Things have calmed down.”

Does all this mean Shia LaBeouf is softer?

“Way softer,” he said.

— Variety