14 DAY TRIAL // Several weeks after being compared to none other than Adolf Hitler by main “Transformers” female star Megan Fox, director Michael Bay is ready to cut her some slack. The media and fans have been extremely harsh with her for the comments she made in recent months, but they don’t necessarily show that she’s dumb or anything along those lines. Megan Fox is just young, Bay says in a recent interview cited by MovieLine.
It happened in early September, when Megan was doing the media rounds to speak of the second “Transformers” film, “Revenge of the Fallen.” At one point, when asked what it was like working with Michael Bay, one of the most commercial directors out there, as critics have dubbed him, Fox said that it could only be compared to sharing the same set with Hitler. Bay wanted everything to come out his way and, in order to get this, he could be too commanding, the actress added.
Understandably, such a comment did not fail to get people talking, Michael Bay himself included. Now, the director revisits Fox’s words to say that she did not utter them because she’s “dumb,” as some labeled her, but rather because she’s young and inexperienced and doesn’t want to come across as a fake. This is Megan Fox, never beating around the bush to say what she’s thinking and, it would seem, she gets a lot of heat for that, Bay insists.
“I love her… It’s just, she’s young. Everyone’s got to give her a break, she’s only… 23? It’s just hard. I’ve traveled around the world with her and she’s just like this world symbol now, you know? She called me [after the Hitler comment] and goes, ‘It’s all bull[expletive], Mike.’ The press, they just like to prey, and stalk, and pounce and find a good little juicy thing. But she’s always wanted to do these crazy comments. That’s just her. She’s great,” Michael Bay explains.
As for the ongoing rumor that, in retaliation for said comment, the director would make sure that her character on the “Transformers” franchise would be killed off, thus virtually depriving her of the very vehicle to stardom, Bay calls the bluff on it. “She’s got a great part in ‘Transformers 3.’ No, no. no. She gets enough of that already,” the director adds, referring to being “killed off.”