Michael Bay vs. Megan Fox in War of Words

Published by Jeff Leins on July 5, 2009

My favorite thing about Megan Fox isn’t that she’s undeniably beautiful.  It’s her willingness to say just about anything to comes to mind.  She spouts consistently crazy things to the press and credits her big mouth for making her an even bigger star.  At one point Fox claimed she was Zac Efron in drag and that High School Musical was about molestation…

So she’s outrageous, but this time her brash attitude has her in hot water with Transformers director Michael Bay.  In an interview with Entertainment Weekly following the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Fox said what we’ve all been thinking.

“The humans are secondary to the robots because it’s a movie about robots… People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting. And once you realize that, it becomes almost fun because you can be in the moment and go, ‘All right, I know that when he calls Action! I’m either going to be running or screaming, or both.’” On the Early Show last week, Fox sarcastically quipped “you have to be geniuses” to understand the sequel.

Michael Bay didn’t react too kindly when hearing one of his stars say, “It’s not about acting” and trashing the mess of a movie he made.  Not one for taking the high road or keeping his own mouth shut, Bay struck back in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:

“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.’ But I 100% disagree with her. Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in Armageddon. Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did Transformers—and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from Bad Boys. Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers. I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”

How does Bay’s head fit through doorways?  He thinks he made the career of Nicolas Cage, who won an Oscar the year before he did The Rock, or Ben Affleck who wrote and co-starred in the Oscar-winner Good Will Hunting before joining the ensemble cast in Armageddon.  But even though he’s a walking ego trip, Bay has a point about making Megan Fox a star.  No one knew who she was until she was one of the sex symbols in Transformers.  She isn’t showing much gratitude by knocking the film series that made her a go-to girl in Hollywood right now, even if she’s right.