Making the Movie: Wow! Megan Fox Gets Slammed By Transformers Crew

Several Transformers crew members wrote a letter defending Michael Bay against accusations made by Transformers star Megan that he "wants to be like Hitler." I have never seen an actress get a more vicious take-down, not even Katherine Heigl:

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.

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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.

--(Original seems to be taken down but here's a cached Google link) Crew Members Respond to Megan Fox's Insults | michael bay dot com

The real point of the letter is to defend Bay, who has taken a lot of crap (and probably rightly so) for Transformers 2, even as it raked in record amounts of cash. I don't think Fox knew how offended people would be when she described Bay as a tyrant on set and a social misfit off. She may be as dumb as they say. She certainly didn't calculate that her remarks would cause Hollywood's green wall of silence to be torn down around her.

What this may be is a cry for help. As the letter says, it seems like she doesn't want to be a movie star. Maybe she really doesn't. As crazy as it is in our celebrity-obsessed culture, we should be willing to let people off the limelight treadmill. I think Paddy Chayefsky had Fox's predicament nailed in his screenplay for The Goddess (1958):

RITA

(staring up at the ceiling)

That seems to me an awful nice feeling, to just float and let the water come up over you, for I can't bear this life no more.