Michael Bay Speaks Up: “I Don’t Condone Crew Letter Or Megan Fox Quotes”
Three of Michael Bay’s crew members asked his website last night to post their response to Megan Fox’s recent insults of the director made to a magazine for her upcoming Jennifer’s Body. (She accused Bay of wanting to “be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for.”) Now the crew get even and detail why she‘s the nightmare. I love when there’s honesty in Hollywood. Remember what the crew did to Bruce Willis way back when?:
This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.
Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.
Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses’ life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.
We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We’ve spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.
We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sourpants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such the grump of the set?
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) — easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.
Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he’s also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.
He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.
Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!
And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she’s absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.
Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!
Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there’s the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips’ daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice.”
The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, “I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!” I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It’s sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they’re really looking up to.
But ‘fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!
-Loyal Transformers Crew
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.






LEAVE! MEGAN! ALONE!
You don’t deserve her!!
I think you meant to say, “What did we do to deserve her?”
Yes, Archie, this entire “letter” was completely misogynistic and disgusting. There are ways for calling out people’s behaviour without constantly referring to them as a porn star. You can bet if it was a man who was shirtless in a lot of movies and magazines there wouldn’t be that comparison at all.
Ditto on the “Michael Bay wrote this shit” as well.
Damn! That was hardcore! I was waiting for a WWE wrestler to come out and say, “Megan Fox, suck it!” as he or she makes a polite motion to the nether region.
Actually wasn’t that surprised on what I read but it was entertaining to read what crew members have had to deal with.
Come on people, let’s face facts. There are complete jerks on both sides of the camera. I’ve worked in this business for many years now and you just come to terms with it. Once people work in the movie/television biz, the majority of them get such a HUGE head over the idea. Even PAs become the biggest jerks because they work in the biz. It’s sad but true. That’s why I appreciate the truly nice people more and more, they are hard to find in this business.
Megan is no genius but she has a right to her opinion. Michael is a pure asshole. Worked with him and he’s a dick.
Love this part…”one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.”
“we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work.”
…and that is the most depressing aspect of this letter.
Michael Bay makes awful unwatchable films. Megan and him seem perfect fo each other. Someone who executes a bad sillyy plan with precision and gusto isn’t a genius or an artist. Bay is just a hyper organized underachiever.
what movies have you ever seen by him. I have seen damn near all of them. Guess what, every single movie he has ever made that I have seen has been an original classic from the get-go. To say that he makes unwatchable movies is like saying “bugs do not like to fly into bug zappers because they has learned.”
Michael, if you are reading this. Thank you so much for the movies you have designed and brought from a piece of paper to a monumental item such as The Rock Armageddon and Pearl Harbor.
Out of all the people named Michael that I know of, Bay takes the cake. So what if Jordan makes shoes, and just so happens to be one of the greatest athletes of his time, but his glory will fade as it has. The movies I listed above will be traveling through this universe for times to come. The movies we make today, effect the futures we make tomorrow. *No pun intended*
You’re kidding, right? The Rock? Armageddon? Pearl fucking Harbor? All these films and the rest not listed here that were directed by Bay are huge steaming piles of crap. Each and every Bay film can be summed up with this description…50% of the film is a slow motion sequence and the other 50% is a pyrotechnic shot. There’s never a decent plot or any character development. I won’t presume to tell you what directors I deem worthy, but I know a hack when I see one and Michael Bay is a hack.
I know know someone who worked with her on a tv show. He said she was very unprofessional, missed several “table reads” and sometimes was just written out of scenes, or even episodes because she was such a horrible actress, with a bad attitude. And that was when she was a nobody. But he said she is seriously HOT in person, even without make up! And isn’t that the only reason anybody cares about her anyway?
I worked on the same TV show that was mentioned above…..I concur wholeheartedly…wish it wasn’t so, though. She was an 18 year old who had a tremendous opportunity to learn and soak up a ton of experience that she was surrounded by….she chose to ignore and mistreat everyone around her there, though…..
I went to the young hollywood award show which gave Megan Fox an award. Although she is a beautiful lady she seems to very empty and not gracious with people around her when the camera is off.
At least we know she didn’t get the part by laying on the casting couch. I’m sure that bummed Bay out.
no, she got it washing his car.
please, don’t be so sure of that.
Two sleazy losers battling it out.
It is critical to remember that the PRODUCT of the BayFox union is an insulting, racist, boring, militaristic, numbing piece of shit.
They can have their money, fame – they’re going to be thrown aside by the public soon enough. Things change and they’re changing now…
This honestly reads like something Michael Bay wrote while drunk. The grammar is embarrassing.
Look, I don’t particularly even like Megan Fox. But this letter — whoever wrote it — is tasteless, tactless, sexist, and cowardly.
If this were Bay..Why wouldn’t he just sign his name? He’s not going to get fired by any studio, his films make too much money. The public would understand because the ditz compared him to one of the most evil men to ever grace this planet. I get that Bay is not liked in Hollywood, but I would think that if he wanted to defend himself to a stuck up, uneducated bitch, he would just do it. He would blog about it or something.
I give it 2 years before Megan Fox is starring in a Skin-a-max movie. That is unless Michael Bay decides to to cast her in Transformer’s 3. Otherwise this girl has no future.
Michael Bay is the nicest and sweetest director. He is a true artist. How dare Megan Fox speak out against such a gem of our time, the master of film?
hahaha! I cannot top that. Well played JohnD
In tears. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Thanks for that. Too funny……ha
After reading this, I’m glad Jennifer’s Body is such a lame flick. When you see it drop like a stone at the box-office, think about karma.
About time crew members turned the light of truth on these dumb as shit “actors” who couldn’t act their way out of a public urinal. Megan Fox has no talent. If she didn’t have the look of a blow up doll, she wouldn’t have gotten a single job other than flipping fries at Burger King but even then her big stupid mouth would have got her ass fired.
Regardless of who wrote this article, I still believe that people should be able to stand up in the industry even in the name of anonymity. Hollywood is a brutal and ugly industry where your name can cost you your entire career. That’s the reality of it. Many of these people that are saying “he/she has no balls because they’re not posting their name” well, how would you react if your job was on the line? The world of entertainment is brutal, and although Megan is entitled to her opinions, the world is a bit sick of her classless rude mouth and it’s about time someone called her out on it. Actress/Actors get way too much leeway in this industry. They get star power because people give it to them. They’re treated like queens and kings while hardworking crew members and directors are put on the backlight. I hate the fact that Hollywood still carries the strangest hierarchy of power in the entire commercial industry. I actually applaud the fact that “crew members” (if they really are) are finally speaking out away from People magazine.
Per-fect-ly said JJ. There is no excusing rudeness and disrepect. MB may be an ass, but those who have complaints about working with him, think about this, you are working for HIM and you don’t have to. Most people complain about their bosses, but the fact of the matter is, this is what you signed up for and AND it happened to change your life forever for the better should you have chosen to respect the opportunity graced upon you.
We hate to admit, but Hollywood gets to run by a different set of rules and laws, I mean, look how far this letter has gotten even though it was removed from the website in little time. EVERYTHING is heightened in Hollywood. Imagine if they gave their names, even if they kept their jobs, their lives would dramatically change in an instant…granted because MF is only a pretty face, it’d be short lived, but and let’s be real, all those bashing this letter would likely bash it even harder if you knew their names. You’d google them and start that process I mentioned earlier of temporarily tearing their lives apart.
If MB did indeed write it, so the fuck what, whether he signed his name or not. Who can blame him for being pissed for never having encountered a more ungrateful actress in HIS ACTUAL career. If you were him, would you sign your name? His name on the bottom of that letter would truly overshadow everything.
She really was playing with fire, it was inevitable that she would get burned eventually. However nasty Bay was to her, he did make her career.
And the fact it comes from his official website doesn’t raise one eyebrow? Seriously Nikki?
Of course, the other side to this is how many of these posts are coming from Megan fox’s publicity people, trying to protect their star client?
Entertaining stuff. Makes me wonder if this is why Rachelle Leferve got canned from Twilight. Young actresses simply aren’t allowed prima donna behavior.
Megan Fox is just a product of the collapse of the Hollywood publicity machine. In the old days there would have been a handler there at every interview ready to hit the remote controlled shock collar every time she steered away from the script and draw attention away from the work at hand.
Nowadays publicists believe that any publicity is good publicity, and actively encourage their clients to speak out about anything and everything because if it’s really outrageous or stupid, it means headlines, headlines, headlines. However stories like this tend to overshadow things like… oh, the release of a certain movie, and hurt what’s supposed to be their real cause, which is putting bums in theatre seats.
I second Hank Chinaski above. The “Michael Bay is a darling” thing is a little hard to swallow especially for anyone who knows anyone who’s worked with him on set. The Loyalists should have just said THEY like him, and leave it at that.
Word I heard from crew on the set of a certain mega-sequel was, a certain director got mighty pissed that a certain actress he’d plucked from obscurity was sleeping with everyone on the set but him—and he’d picked her to play the part specifically to be his on-set friends-with-benefits. She hadn’t slept with him in the first movie, ’cause she said she was faithful to her BF, but when she broke up with her BF during shooting of the sequel, she nailed literally everyone—including the key grip—but not the big-time, ego-inflated director.
That’s the word.
There’s a scene in Transformers 2 where Megan and Shia almost get blown up because the crew set up an explosion too early as M & S jump across rooftops.
She has every right to be pissed at him.
They just said why they can’t mention their names, they don’t have the protection an actor does. I imagine that films crews are expendable. They don’t make what Megan Fox makes.