He may look like Lisbeth Salander's long-lost redneck brother with this latest 'do, but we still love him...

Shia LeBeouf debuted his rat tail several weeks ago, but this week he shaved even more hair off the sides of his head to complete this bizarre cut. The 28-year-old actor hit the gym in Los Angeles on Wednesday with a giant jug of water, and if you divert your eyes from the funky hair and eyebrow piercing, you have to admit that he does have a pretty impressive set of guns.

Still no word on why Shia is sporting this particular hairstyle, but he is set to start shooting American Honey soon, so perhaps he's prepping for that character? According to a plot synopsis on IMDb, the flick is about "a teenage girl with nothing to lose [who] joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits." Shia definitely looks like a hunky Midwestern misfit, so we're curious to see if that's for this role!