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UPDATES Michael Bay's Crew Bitchslaps Megan Fox
Now Michael Bay has personally updated his website with this message:
The Crew Letter
09/12/2009 11:32 PM
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.
Michael
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Way to go Michael take the high road!
high road? after he posted the dumb crew letter on his own website? please… he’s a fool.
I have to say that I believe Bay’s statement. He’s decided to write Transformers 3 all by himself, he let me have a peek at his work so far, and I have to say that Megan Fox’s character certainly has a lot to do. There are scenes of her washing Bay’s fleet of cars, shoveling the snow from the driveway of his ski lodge, cleaning the toilets at a biker bar (to be shot on location), and wrapping up with a finale of her giving an elephant with diarrhea a prostate exam.
I’m not sure what connection these scenes have with shape changing robots, but I’m sure Bay knows what he’s doing.
Note to Megan PR ; don’t let her say that stuff and the internet posts won’t come back to bite her. Pretty simple stuff.
Note to Carol: Once upon a time, there was a little thing called the First Amendment and people being able to speak their mind. I find Meghan’s honesty, whether it’s shallow and short-sighted or not, refreshing! How nice to hear someone speak their mind rather than spit out what a PR person tells them to say… ugh. I love people that aren’t afraid of being who they are and saying it out loud.
Many men worship Megan Fox. I am one of them, Bay is another. I’m just glad she’s coming back for Transformers 3, she’s the only thing that makes those films bearable.
I guess Michael is a little classier-then-thou-thought!
Ehh, he’s being to nice on Megan. It’s about time someone bitch slapped her. It seems like she’s got this stuck up attitude and she should really give Michael Bay more credit. She went from being a small movie star to something huge.
That’s true because Michael could have hired a million other girls to play that role in Transformers.
Let’s have a little gratitude Megan.
Give me a fucking break.It’s not like Bay personally picked Megan Fox for the role.Megan Fox got the role because some casting agent thought she was the hottest of the Bimbos that audition.Bay deserve zero credit for Megan Fox career, but he deserve all the blame for the idiotic mess of franchised which is Transformer.
DUDE!!!!!!!He is the director. He could’ve said no and went on to have the casting ladies find another girl like HB said. He had complete controle over who gets on his big action movie. So how bout you give me a fucking break.
Transformers 3? Two was enough.
Boy the movie made $400 mil domestic only like six or seven movies have done that: can’t that girl just enjoy it? Most of us are looking for jobs out here she’s lucky!
In other words, Bay is secretly rejoicing that someone actually defended him, while trying to keep things under control so he can film his next piece of crap with her. Bay is at least good at making awful movies people watch. Fox is replaceable eye candy who will probably end up in the adult film business within a few years once dumb audiences figure out it’s cheaper and more convenient that way.
my god I hope she does!
Michael Bay is a class act.
So he realized the website theatrics backfired. But still managed to get 3 “crazy” slams into his update. Guys always call women who speak the truth “crazy.” LOL. Guess “she’s crazy like a Fox.”
I fall into the camp that believes that Bay wrote the “crew letter to Megan” himself, and then distanced himself from it with the reply.
I only worked on the first Transformers, but I remember Megan’s stunt double, Stacey Carino, being a delight to work with; Megan, with make-up troweled on to cover troublesome acne, less so.
I’m not aware of many who have drunk the Bay Kool-Aid; being on set with him is not a day at Disneyland, unless you expect to go to Disneyland and have Uncle Walt bellow ad hominem attacks at you through a megaphone.
He doesn’t condone it yet he posted it on his own website? The dude wrote it. This is such a joke.
It’s hard to imagine the prettiest girl in the room being stuck up and otherwise acting like a princess. This never happens outside of Hollywood.
I used to really love and respect Hollywood but it’s over now. Hollywood has jumped the shark. Why, you ask? Well, the moment we are all gushing over Fox, Bay and films such as Transformers 1 & 2 as many have been over this story the last few days is the moment we should all pack it in. I ask everyone to take a moment and think about what lows of creativity we’ve sunk to and accept.
As many others have said, it looks like Bay himself wrote the anti-Fox screed that he claims three anonymous crew members wrote. It was posted on his website and reads exactly like other things Bay has written, with the same phrases and terrible grammar.
It’s really sleazy for him to attack Fox like this and then distance himself from his own slime.
Does she even matter? Does Transformers 3 lose one dime if he doesn’t use her? I don’t think so. Just recast with some other hot chick. Maybe this one can act.
Who wants to bet that wild n’ wacky Michael Bay dresses up as Hitler for Megan’s first day on the Transformers 3 set?
And every time he needs to give Megan direction, he’ll probably lean into that his infamous megaphone of his and deliver her instructions via a crappy cartoon German accent.
Col. Klink will be rolling over in his grave at the injustice.
hilarious that michael bay has a website
Megan Fox is absoultely nothing special. There’s 13 of her in every Hollywood dozen.
Y’all who are bashing Megan Fox (I’m not a fan, by the way) don’t know shit about Hollywood history. Megan Fox is another in a long line of Jane Russell types of varying talent who have a place in this town and always will. They never end up in porn (idiots), they usually fade out after a time, but they belong here. No dog in this fight, though, Megan Fox may very well be awful, Michael Bay definitely is, and those crew members are trying to kiss some ass and hope that word gets back to Bay just who indeed wrote that letter. But Michael Bay knows Megan Fox is a huge part of the success of those films and he’s not a total moron.
Megan Fox was plucked out of obscurity by Michael Bay. Where’s the gratitude?
She was the girlfriend of an ex 90210 star that didn’t do anything until Michael Bay hired her for the role.
He could have hired anyone for that role because Transformers was a hit before it hit the screen.
She’s just a pretty girl that can read lines. There’s tons of them out there.
Yeah right, the Megan Squad is on the spin case in the comment section. Spin it away from the truth.
Some class from Bay – open and honest. Yeah, they clashed, yeah, they both behaved like dickheads. Who doesn’t? So I’ll let Michael get away with this. Time to move on. But Michael, one thing I will not forgive you for – Optimus’ speech on the damn dam was mine (via Comingsoon, I think). Never got the price for that.
All Transformers 3 needs to be is: “Megan Fox against the Decepticons”. Boom, boom! I’d watch that many, many times!
file this under, not surprising hollywood irony and ass kissing. let’s face it folks, we live and work in a business that is slightly f’up and where this type of crap is de rigeur.
Nikki I cannot believe you are letting Bay slide on this. Or that any people are commenting are believing this three crew member bs. Bay wrote the original letter and he put it on his website claiming that three crew members ( a grip, a camera dept. person and a costumer) got together to write a joint letter.
First off nothing goes on Bay’s site with out his approval, now he is saying he doesn’t condone it. Bay is a liar and has no respect for any cast or crew. He has attacked people on every film he has worked on. He has a lot of issues with anger and abandonment and needs professional help so if any reader are or know a good psychiatrist this would be a great case study.
Yes Michael Bay wrote the original letter.
Nikki this is the first time I ever posted. I look at your site to learn about the business; because I want to be a producer. I’m in my 20’s and a Production Assistant. I worked on Transformers in New Mexico and a few places. I don’t want to bash Megan, but she could of been a lot nicer to people. Maybe she was working hard but the other actors talk to people. She comes across in the movies as so sweet. (Maybe she should study her acting)
Bash bash bash.
Try it yourself and see how hard it is first.
Megan on SNL
Now Saturday Night Live wants to do a skit about the Viacom Golden Boy Bay and the Foxy Fox. NOTE to AGENCY’s time to strike is now… she needs new Reps in her life. Like the blind leading the blind on that camp. What are they out to prove…. that she really is intelligent and charming?
Love the Megan publicity machine now they have writing forensics experts. Hilarious!
Wow, same old same old. Bitter men hating a pretty woman because she won’t give them the time of day. Bitter women hating her because .. well, that’s pretty obvious. The two combine to start a bunch of heinous rumors so the pretty woman’s life can be as miserable as theirs.
He should consider replacing Megan Fox with Sasha Grey. Then the guys still get their porn star to look at and the level of acting quality stays the same.
Or find the next young starlet and we can all move on.
I just love all the jealous losers who keep on trashing Michael Bay for making films someone wants to see. They may be popcorn flicks but at least they are not the largely pretentious crap that the Oscars go for in the last couple years. If it were not for Bay and others who bring in the big money then you guys would not be able to put out any of your stuff except at film festivals or in your own living rooms.
Thanks, JJ.
Somewhere, the shade of Samuel Goldwyn has a huge smile on its face. That’s one of the better carrot and stick handlings of a star I’ve seen in years. No one is fooled –no one is meant to be fooled; but both ends of the message were surely received.
I got a call back on a Michael Bay directed movie. It was three lines and I was ecstatic to meet with him and be considered for the role He was very down to earth and gracious. I didn’t get the role and of course was disappointed. But that’s how the cookie crumbles.
Miss Fox has no idea how lucky she is to have been discovered by him and then to have him take the high road when she made those stupid comments. What the heck is the matter with pretty people? That letter you guys wrote was awesome and she is more LUCKY to have the warning. Trouble is –I don’t think she’ll get it. Humility is something that is learned and so is narcissism.
You’d think someone with thumbs that look like some fat homeless guys big toe would be a more gracious human being. MF is OVER-RATED! Go to your local mall. You’ll see five or six Megan Fox’s before you leave.
Typical.
The PoA du jour says something catty and is forgiven, probably because of her looks.
Can’t be because of any on-screen “talent.”
MB, are you tapping that?
Megan was suppose to be professional she should act like one. In that industry directors makes the actress, to some extended the people do as well. But with out director there would be no films nor plays with no films nor plays there would be no actresses. you don’t bash the the person who makes the film come alive. Especially if that film makes enough money to pay that actress. she should be grateful she evens has a job in a very popular movie.
The simple thing is that she obviously has no “Couch Skills.” (No pun intended for you pervs.)
The girl became a major screen presence over-night and doesn’t have the good sense to self-edit.
In regard to the “Hitler” comment, that appears to just have been an ill chosen word spoken publicly. We’ve all said stupid things like that 100 times but not in an interview.
I’m not defending her, not at all. But call it what it is, A Giant Lack of Common Sense.
When LeBeouf was working the couches he told similar stories (in a funny, charming way) of Bay’s hard work ethic on set. But having a lot more experience and a great humor about him, they came out with HIM as the butt of the joke, not Bay.
Her appearance with Harry Smith on The CBS Early Show (to promote T2) was like watching a train wreck. Actually saying she had no idea what the movie was about and you had to be a rocket scientist to understand it? I’m sure there were SEVERAL PR hacks cringing as she spoke.
They just need to get her some serious training with someone who can teach her about “The Sell.”
(IF, that is, she’s willing to actually learn it.)
Going from 0 to 100 over-night without working for it can mess you up if you don’t have a good base behind you.