Salvo number… five, six, seven? In the tet-offensive war of words between Megan Fox and Michael Bay, yet another verbal hand grenade has been lobbied into the fray today and this one’s a doozy.
In comes neither from Fox or the apparently tyrannical director, but actually from a more genuine place. The low-hanging fruit of the Michael Bay crew and the plebes who have to do the dirty work.
Crew people are the most honest people you’ll meet in Hollywood. They’re no-nonsense, have zero entourages, and they’re not the star of the show in any way and in most instances their jobs are largely thankless. They’re the grunts on the front line, so if you want the most candid opinion of a star or director, go to a crew member who gets to observe their behavior all day.
The long and short? We’re inclined to believe their missive aimed at Fox. If Bay’s crew hated him they’d either say it or just keep their traps shut. But an entitled pop starlet who is a pain in the ass on set? If she’s going to continue to talk out of turn, these guys are finally gonna speak and they did. Essentially, they call her an ungrateful C-U Next Tuesday.
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. Sour Pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
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.
[W]ho 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.
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. […] 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!
Color us shocked with her on-set behavior. Unbeknownst to this crew when their wrote their missive, Fox actually fired yet another not-s0-subtle diss at Bay during the junket for “Jennifer’s Body” (a godawful film, really) at TIFF yesterday. “It’s different working for a woman. She obviously understands… She’s much more sensitive…not in the sense … that I have my [spray] tan on and need to be glowing all the time. We were real people in a real town, and we showed the beauty in that: Real is beautiful. You don’t have to look like an airbrushed Cosmopolitan cover all the time to be attractive. [Pause] And I didn’t have to bend over a bike, which was nice.”
Gee, who could she possibly be referring to? So is it save to say the save-the-date for “Transformers 3” is officially off now? [MichaelBay.com via Movieline]