Well, it appears that there's much more to this very public spat between Megan Fox and Michael Bay. What's the lesson here before we continue: it's how to not win friends and influence people. It's an example of using the Internet annonomously to be ugly. And it's pretty stupid, too.
According to blogger Amy Grindhouse (cool name), Megan Fox calls Bey a "Hitler" on the movie set and more. This is what she said as reported by Amy:
1) On Transformers director Michael Bay: “[Michael Bay] wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he’s a nightmare to work for.”
2) On what's wrong with her: “I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven’t pinpointed what it is.”
3) On her new movie Jennifer’s Body: “I think it’s really about how fucked up and scary girls are. Girls are fucking nightmares.”
4) On being a product in Hollywood: “Part of my product is being outrageous and outspoken so even when I’m not being that way I’m going to be sold that way.”
All of this has really pissed off someone claiming to be part of Bay's crew on that movie - and who penned a letter without attaching their name - that really takes off after Fox in a fashion that can only be described as petty and unprofessional.
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To his credit, Bey posted this comment on his website:
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.
The letter, originally posted on Bay's website, but then removed, can be read at Nikke Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily blogsite and is below:
This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.
Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.
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.
We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.
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. Sourpants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such the grump of the set?
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) -- easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.
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.
He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.
Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!
And who 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.
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.
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.
But ‘fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. 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!
-Loyal Transformers Crew
My take? The crew people who wrote this don't want work anytime soon. All one has to do is a IMDB search for the names of the people who worked on the Transformers movies and use some other clues to figure out who wrote it. Result: no future work.
I'm sure that everyone has something to negative to say about someone. That doesn't mean it has to be said or written. There's nothing important here or so solid that it sticks. It reads like crew people who are jealous of successful actresses who may not cow-tow to them.
I agree it would be nice if Fox did feed the ego of the crew, if this letter is to be believed as true. But I'm sure I can find someone in Hollywood who's a crew type with something nice to say about Ms. Fox.
The bottom line, again, is to avoid writing such letters that don't have your name on them. People who do it think they will not be discovered and that's always wrong. It's just a matter of time.
If you have an issue with a person, take it to them privately and with respect. Only go public after you've exhausted that option without positive results.
Fox says she's screwed up
In the wake of the Tila Tequila episode, I don't find Megan Fox's claims to be funny. She says:
I think I'm a borderline personality -- or that I have bouts of mild schizophrenia," she says. "I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven't pinpointed what it is."
One could say it's good she's honest about it, but my fear is she will use this revelation as an "excuse" to treat people terribly. If she does that, she's got to seek help because at that point Fox becomes emotionally dangerous to others. She could interpret a situation one way, one day, then another way on another day and both would be real to her. So the "truth" becomes flexible with who she happens to be on a given day. That's crazy-making.
I hope Fox takes her own comments seriously and not as an attention getting tool. Taking that responsibility will be the first step into a larger and more positive world for Megan Fox.
