Megan Fox : She was not fired from Transformers, she quit

She announced that she was leaving the franchise. She quit. When Michael Bay said Steven Spielberg told him to fire her, Spielberg said Michael Bay was lying. People like the idea that she was fired because it sends a message that "see what happens little girls when you speak out of line against big powerful director men." We live in a patriarchal culture and the way their situation is framed is completely rooted in sexism.

Michael Bay spent his entire promo tour of T3 trashing her. Why would he do that unless he was butt hurt and trying to get back at her? He claims Steven Spielberg demanded that she be fired when she compared him to Hitler.

But in an interview with Entertainment Weekly Spielberg says he never said that.

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/241703/steven-spielberg-michael-bay-lied-about-megan-fox.html

"STEVEN Spielberg has hinted Michael Bay is a liar!

In a new interview with Americas Entertainment Weekly magazine, the director was asked about Bay telling GQ that when Megan Fox compared him to Hitler in an interview, Spielberg said that he should fire her from the Transformers movie franchise.

Thats not true, Spielberg said, shaking his head. 'That didnt happen.'"

NOT TO MENTION THAT the website, THE WRAP, HAS ANOTHER SIDE OF IT:

The website The Wrap reported about an "inside" perspective on the matter: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/ind-column/megan-fox-quit-transformers-over-michael-bays-abusive-behavior-17614

And while Deal Central was skeptical at first that Fox would walk away from such a lucrative role, persistent whispers around Hollywood indicated that there was another side of the story.
Bay has a history of demeaning his leading ladies, including "Pearl Harbor" star Kate Beckinsale; an individual close to the actress recalled that the director "wasn't very nice" to her on the set, either.
Apparently, Fox wasn't the only "Transformers" cast member affected by Bay's rude behavior. TheWrap also learned that "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" star Isabel Lucas chose not to join her co-stars on a publicity tour for the film because she didn't get along with the director, who was described as being "too powerful" and "not well-liked" by the female talent community.

More evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4yJ5TTnQS0&feature=player_embedded

NO one gives a fook whether Fox "quit" or NOT.

Even if Fox did quit, the big fooking joke is on Fox cause everything she did outside of michael "blow-sheet-up" bay was even more crappier than the crap transformers of blow-sheet-up bay.

So now after 3 years where Fox showed Hollywood that she was a crappy actress that only turned out box office bombs, the film industry saw no reason for Megan Denise Fox anymore as what good was she to them if she wasn't making them any money so all roles for Fox dried up.

The result? Megan Denise Fox goes GROVELLING back to michael "blow-sheet-up" bay.


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She actually showed that she has some talent in films like Friends With Kids and This is 40.

She was praised for her acting by many critics. People like you don't want to acknowledge that because it would force you to reconsider your negative opinion. But the facts are the facts she has been given props for her good acting in those films by many critics. Whether you agree with them is irrelevant.

Also, Bay is the one who came GROVELING back. There is another quote out from the production company stating that Fox was "won over" by the story boards in a meeting with the director. He was seeking her out as his choice.

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"She actually showed that she has some talent in films like Friends With Kids and This is 40."

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Therein lies the secret to Fox NOT displaying lousy acting abilities: when she's isn't *trying to act*.

Watching Fox in Friends and 40 and Hope & Faith, the thing that jumps out is that Fox's "acting" is NOT BAD and the reason it is NOT bad is because in those roles Fox isn't asked to "act". You watch her in roles where she isn't sheety and what jumps out is that Fox is supposed to be a "normal" person. I can actually hear the directors of Kids, 40 and Hope telling Fox "just be a normal person Megan. You're just a normal person in the role and when the camera is rolling just be a normal person." Thus because Fox isn't "trying to be some character" her crappy acting abilities don't come forward for the camera. If someone told you to just talk to someone like you're having a conversation while the camera is rolling how could you fook that up? Thus when Fox doesn't have to "act" and "just be normal/natural" Fox doesn't come across as a crap actor.

BUT as soon as Fox is asked to actually ACT, she completely fooks up. Her roles in the transformers trash and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and Whore and Jennifer's Body and Jonah Hex and Passion Play required that Fox actually had to go beyond "just be yourself" role and Fox actually had to try to be a character (which was universally tits&ass). AGAIN, that meant the Megan Fox actually had to TRY to act and Fox canNOT do it.

That is why there are so many persons on this board - myself included - have said over and over again why didn't Megan Fox NOT GO AND GET HERSELF AN ACTING COACH. Acting lessons could've helped Fox overcome her complete incapability to actually inhabit a character rather than being a log that is phoning it in.

To be fair, her crap acting in the tranformers trash was really more due to hack michael "blow-sheet-up" bay. Blow up bay can't get past his MTV days and his only concern in his "movies" are the MTV-derived really fast cuts and eye-catching flash and special effects that wow.

This is why actors that are considered to have good to very good acting capabilities like John Turturro and Frances McDormand John Malkovich come across so awful in bay's transformers crap: blow up bay isn't interested in getting a good performance from his actors as he is too busy drooling over the flash and special effects. People aren't aware of this but Shia LaBeouf was considered one of the up-and-coming young actors because he showed so much range (believe it or not, Kristen Stewart was considered up-and-coming too), but his roles in the transformers trash ruined his reputation.


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Good thing Stanley Kubrick never followed your lame advice. He would've never succeeded or got his movies on the big screen let alone video. Because you don't know what you're talking about.

"be a normal person" requires ACTING SKILLS. It's hard to ACT normal, when you are reading the lines from a freakin' script.

Was Mikaela not a NORMAL person? Was she not ACTING NORMAL? Explain the difference between her acting in Transformers, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Jonah Hex, Friends with Kids, where she was NORMAL, and Hope & Faith. Please? I wish you would, I dare you.

THERE IS NONE.

The only characters Megan ever played where she had to show any range was Passion Play and she played that character as best as anyone else could. She had emotion, she showed the vulnerability, the insecurity, the shyness, likely because she was just mostly playing herself.
She had a scene in 'This is 40' where she was having a drunken conversation with Leslie Mann's character. It was the funniest part in the movie. She NAILED IT. I would add Jennifer's Body to the mix, but she didn't have to do much.

Megan's biggest con, is probably her voice. It's so monotone, pitchy and childlike, but when she wants to show her range, she's clearly good. The Eminem video, she didn't even need to speak, her behavior and ACTING spoke for itself and that ish was NOT NORMAL. Even on SNL she went from character to character. She was GREAT. They didn't give her much to work with, but when they did, the Fox could work. Especially the biker girls segment. Kristen Wiig is considered great at what she does and Megan outdid her in that segment, so don't you dare come up here running your lips about Megan's acting capabilities. I've seen it, which is why I said she'll last in Hollywood, if she really wants it. Shia LaBeouf was never a good actor. The boy sucked in a "Guide To Recognizing Your Saints". He plays the same character in every movie and when it's time t1908o do something outside of that, he clearly doesn't have it and don't get me started with Kristen Stewart.

Instead of coming up here and repeating what somebody else said, (It's obvious when you try and pull out old hags that won Oscars and called them great actors due to their age) why don't you form an original opinion by actually watching and appreciating her work.(It's obvious you haven't seen ish, when you listed "Whore") Instead of going in assuming she sucks and trying to nit-pick. Nobody said she was perfect, but she obviously has potential. She got famous for her looks, so what, what female isn't famous for her appearance? There's no need to trash her for what she was blessed with. John Malkovich is not a good actor, he's the same dull, no range, character in everything he does. But if he's put in the right role like a serial killer, that kind of lifeless acting, may be convincing in that role. If Megan played a lead character in a well-written comedy, with a very good director, she'd probably get an Oscar nod too.

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She was praised for her acting by many critics.

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Her ass and boobs were praised by many critics. Her acting has never been praised by anyone.


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Even if Fox did quit, the big fooking joke is on Fox cause everything she did outside of michael "blow-sheet-up" bay

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Sooo are you saying you don't like Michael F'ng Bay?

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She was obviously fired, and she pretty much deserved it. You reap what you sow.

How exactly is it "obvious"? Did you even read any of the links? She *beep* quit. The evidence is massive. Spielberg even said Bay was lying about it.

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Spielberg even said Bay was lying about it.

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No, he didn't.


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he did.

There's this really cool new technology called google; check it out. All U need to do is spell out the topic you want to know about, then you hit return on your keyboard. Results show up & you click on them with your mouse. OH, left click should do it.

Good luck!

Fired or quit.hmmm WHO CARES. She has had flop after flop since. So if you buy the fired story, she's a pain in the ass. If you buy the quit story, she's an absolute moron. Either way, it doesn't look good for her. She has had exactly ZERO hit movies since. Count em. ZERO. Bay on the other hand, do you think any of this situation hurt him? He will continue making movies as he has been since Megan was in diapers.

You got that right^^
She shot her mouth off, but what many on here are missing, Steven Spielberg is not just a director, but a producer, those guys get the money to fund movies, piss them off, well, they can end your career by telling casting, if you add her, you get no money from me.
Ah yes, the sexist excuse people use only works when the actress isn't trying to get in movies using it, you know, like ugly actresses. LoL
As for acting ability, I see her as being used as eye candy, she knows it, if she had STFU, she could have gotten more work, but many elitist get a big head when they get attention.
Wasn't me

bay is a douche there is no question about it. on the transformers set you an hear him threatening to smack her ass with a paddle when she was questioning them throwing stuff at them on the set

not only that but Michael made Megan model wardrobe options (short shorts and belly tops) in front of a room full of men, made her audition by washing his car in a bikini while he filmed it (of which Michael Bay hasn't denied)

she had to put up with a lot from bay who would keep barking orders at her about bending over the car, arch her back and dictating what she wore and even naming her character after himself.


rose hunington whitely(sams girlfriend in the third movie) complained because she had to where high heals the entire time filming and when she complained about it and asked if she could take the heals of he basically said oh boo *beep* hoo and get over it

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I don;t see how she "deserved" itthere are male actors who have not only said AND done worse things that still didn't get them fired from anything they did. Seriously, that was just a silly comment she madeit really wasn't worth getting fired over. When you look at how Charlie Sheen got away with acting a damn fool before his boss finally kicked him to the curb off of TWO AND A HALF MAN, Fox's little faux pas dosem't even compare to that.

Apples and oranges lol Charlie Sheen was the spine of Two and A Half Men. If you rip out the spine I guess you still have a beating heart (Alan) but it leaves a pretty lifeless body laying around pissing itself waiting to rot. They tried to transplant the spine with whats his name, Ashton, but you can't transplant spinal cords, and it just created this weird shamefully awkward lumbering beast that took forever to wither out and die.

Megan Fox was just a pleasant aside in the Transformers series, not greatly important. To say that her departure was even slightly comparable to Sheen's in Two and A Half Men is laughable. The creators of these two shows weigh the importance of actors, and even assign a number value to that importance called 'salary'.

It's not so much what she said From my limited knowledge she called him a Hitler? But that it got public attention. You can talk crap about your boss all day long, and probably do to your wife and friends, but if the whole office and the boss finds out? Well that's not good for you, even at a small company. That's reputation and I guess Bay is insecure enough to let it really bother him that her scrutiny reached the public ear. What do you expect from a Hollywood nance though?

Excepthe came crawling back to her AFTER SHE QUIT his movie. He wants her back for something else.

*beep* off with your boring misogyny. No one is impressed.

SO the guy that has had hit movie after hit movie without Megan Fox, went crawling back to her, the actress who has exactly..wait for it.ZERO hit movies without Michael Bay? First off, provide proof that he crawled back, since you are so damned insistent about it happening. Secondly, why in hell would he? He replaced her with a model in TF3. A model with no acting experience!. A frigging model!! The more realistic situation is that she begged him for a job. Maybe she blew him. But Michael Bay, like him or not, has exactly zero reason to crawl back to her. Take your head out of the sand and look at things realistically.

I did provide proof in my original post genius.

Either you are Megan Fox or Megan's agent and desperate to make yourself look good or..

You are an over obsessive fan that needs therapy. Seems all of your posts are on Megan Fox boards.and you do all you can to defend her.

Lighten up on the freakish Megan defense thing. 2 words for you. Get help.

The OP is a complete idiot, and hilariously ill-informed.


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Wrong. Calling people names doesn't make you right. It only shows you have no argument. Any average minded person can tell she quit if they just read the evidence provided. But continue to believe whatever is convenient for your archaic patriarchal point of view.

Here's another industry insider saying she quit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4yJ5TTnQS0&feature=player_embedded

Let's say hypothetically speaking she quit, so what? It doesn't mean he begged her to return. Her movies between Transformers 2 and TMNT were not big hits and her status was downgraded from female lead to supporting actress and cameo appearance. She even appeared in a foreign commercial, and for American stars, foreign commercials is work for those who are considered washed up. Meantime, Transformers 3 went on to being the most successful film in the franchise without her. No, if Megan quit, then she made a horrible business choice because it's obvious she cannot put many butts in theater seats or even have a decent direct to video sale for one of her films. I am willing to bet that she went to Bay after she gave birth to her kid, begged him to take her back as a lead in a film and behold, she's April O'Neil in a Ninja Turtle movie that's Bay produced.

She went back to him because she's a mother and knew she didn't have a way to support her child without Bay.






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It's nothing compared to the fallouts Kevin Costner has had with Kevin Reynolds. That's a classic case of a star and director who can't live with or without each other.

Expect more twists in the Fox and Bay saga to come over the years!!!



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The OP really needs to get out more and get a life lol. Who cares this much about a strangers life.

Talk about filling the void where a life should be.

It's not about caring about a strangers life. It's about the sexism in hollywood. The media paints her as a huge bitch because she dared to speak out against a powerful misogynistic director.

There seems to be a lot of females acting in ho1c84llywood with all the sexism, many have multiple movies and superb acting abilities, then theres Fox, sorry, that excuse is a big fail!

Wasn't me

I care because of the sexism of the situation. Duh.

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I care because of the sexism of the situation. Duh.

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Only 12-year-olds and adults of limited intellect think "Duh" is an effective response.


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Stop saying she was fired from Transformers

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Actually, feel free to keep saying it if you want to. This is a discussion board, and the OP is not a moderator.


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I think Michael Bay fired her himself and decided to blame Steven so he wouldn't be hated by Megan's fans.

She was lucky to get an opportunity in the first place. She remains a beautiful result of great plastic surgery with minimal talent and even less consequence. But I'm sure she'll be gratified to know there are those who will vociferously argue ad-infinitum in her defense.


"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

Really Colin? Really?

Do I have to remind you again, that Megan Fox pre-surgery was much more beautiful and hotter than she was after the alleged operations? She was much prettier in the 1st Transformers than she was in the 2nd one and she was pretty dang gorgeous in the 2nd one. Is this the only thing you haters can bring to the table?

It's always some BS about "surgery" or "no talent" and no evidence to back it up or make a point. Look at any girl in Hollywood before and after photos about five years apart and you'll be able to find that they too had a nose job, new teeth, cheek fillers or weight loss to help alter their appearance. It's common out there. Why is 16d0Megan being treated differently? How come no-one ever provides a good reason for calling Megan a bad actress aside from the fact that she's pretty. I've given ten reasons for why she's a potentially good actress and no-one has tried to dispute it. I guess because there's no answer.

Ya'll ish has gotten old quick.

No Itsneely, I've got my own two eyes and you are blinded by somebody else's opinion as usual. I want you to name me an actress in Hollywood who hasn't had anything done and I'll admit that my statement was premature, but I doubt you can.

Of course there are answers. Since none of us have actually worked with her, we're left to surmise why her career is going nowhere. Perhaps she has a sense of entitlement, a bad attitude or is otherwise difficult to work with. There are reasons some succeed and others fail. A nose job isn't one of them, but beauty alone will not sustain a film career.


"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

I liked her for what she was "Eye Candy"