We’ve been eagerly digesting every bit of info we can get on the beef between Alec Baldwin and Shia LaBeouf, following Shia’s removal from the Broadway play Orphans.

Up until now, it’s been sort of unclear what exactly happened between Alec and Shia, or whose fault it really was that Shia gave Orphans the shaft (or vice versa). Shia enlightened us in his appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, sounding surprisingly gracious… perhaps taking a page from Alec's book?

Watch it after the jump!

Don’t mess with Alec Baldwin. He’ll school you in the classiest and most dignified way possible.

(Or he’ll just hit you ― he’s unpredictable that way.)

The 30 Rock star is none too pleased with Shia LaBeouf at the moment, thanks to Shia bowing out as his co-star in the play Orphans. Alec took the opportunity to give him a verbal lashing. It was a classy lashing, though, veiled in a discussion of “the theater.”

See how he took Shia to task after the jump!

Shia LaBeouf may have become an international superstar with his roles in the Transformers movies, but now he's bowing out of the mega-blockbuster franchise and getting back to roles closer to his heart.

His latest, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, sure doesn't sound like a Michael Bay movie. He co-stars with Evan Rachel Wood as an American who gets caught up with a Romanian femme fatale while wandering through Europe. Hear what "terrified" him about the role when he stopped to chat with Hollywire's Chelsea Briggs!