The crew that worked on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took umbrage regarding Megan Fox’s comments about Michael Bay and his explosion-driven directing style. So they anonymously took to MichaelBay.com to voice their discontent:
[S]ome Transformers crew members took exception to the comments, and slammed the actress’ own on-set behavior. They describe “the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox,” and insist they “had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set.”
They also brand Fox “as ungracious a person as you can fathom,” and complain she refused to thank them when they had “to deal with the awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up.”
Bay removed the post from his website and chastised his would-be defenders:
“I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.”
Which is very gracious of him, only he himself slammed her in no less than The Wall Street Journal the day after Transformers 2 came out in June, when he said:
Well, that’s Megan Fox for you. She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do. You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, “Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it.”
So Michael Bay is fine with criticizing one of his lead actors except when (surprise!) she helps propel a widely panned could-have-been-a-bomb to the very top of the 2009 box office, besting runner-up Harry Potter 6 by more than 30 percent. Stank attitude or not, Megan Fox is critical to the franchise and to Michael Bay. Now that is acting at its finest.
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Hollywood, California. One gigantic high school.
If I lived there I’d be smoking in the bathroom. Up yours Dean Burkowski!
I’m not certain that the snippet that he spoke about her really qualifies as “slamming.” What person when talked about by someone much younger does not roll their eyes and say “whatever.” I know that I have. He didn’t say that he disliked her or disliked working with her, just that he thought what she said was ridiculous.
But hey, I really think she’s just a bitch who can’t act anyway, so I don’t pay much attention to what she says in the first place.
Since she’s apparently “dumb-as-a-rock,” and since she apparently can’t act, and since it was Megan Fox who apparently propelled a “could-have-been-a-bomb” to box office greatness I have a GREAT money saving (and ergo, money EARNING) tip for Michael Bay:
Just shoot Megan Fox with no script, no storyline, no set, no NOTHING for 1-1/2 hours. Based on the above info, I’m sure it would be a raging success.
Ka-CHING!
Me, too, Pasta. I’ll bring the six-pack of Schlitz if you bring the chips.
Megan, no one is ever going to take you as a “serious actress” anyway. Shut up and cash your paychecks.
Proof positive we need more ugly people in unHolywood. I’d rather drink paint than feed the ego of any of these people. And I use the term “people” loosely.
Unrelated, but I never knew boobs that small could be so lopsided. Weird.
Yikes! Her boob job* is getting wonky already!
*Not sure if she really had one or not. Maybe she did just grow three cup sizes in a month.
Eh, Bay is a genius when it comes to anything besides making a cohesive story. That’s the only reason that she’ll be in the third movie, she draws all the desperate, lonely men who wish Angelina still wore scantily clad outfits in most of her roles. If I remember correctly, the rumor surrounding Megan Fox’s audition for Bay was for her to wash his car in a bathing suit. He knew exactly what she was good for.
Bay likes to blow stuff up. Simple. Actors work with him: they blow stuff up. Simple. Not much acting required. Megan was perfect for the role. Did she think it was a Merchant/ Ivory movie?
I like both of them and I loved the movies for being entertainment and not mind wrenching drama that you have to think about every second of the movie. its fast and cool and optimus prime is stunning and megan really is very pretty, and who said that in hollywood you have to be both pretty and intelligent to get anywhere? So… yeah, that’s basically it. not that i mind drama, don’t get me wrong, but just sometimes its nice to be entertained… and theres not so much blood so my kids can watch it too. nice.
Transformers 2 is what is wrong with Hollywood as a whole, too much glitz and not enough actual story and good actors. Fox is one of the reasons I didn’t go and see T2, that and it wasn’t really about the Transformers.
I’d hit it, and tell that crew to shut their whore mouths!
I can’t wait until this steaming pile of skeeve gets a zit or gains some weight, and then we won’t have to hear nearly as much about her.
I’ve never seen a Bay film in the theater.
But I’d totally pay double to watch Bruce Willis push the red button on Fox as Aerosmith plays in the background.
Aren’t we forgetting the bigger picture here – the fact that the movie was terrible?