Michael Bay has spent five years as the steward of the big-screen Transformers franchise, and he’s tired of his hoity-toity actors dissing their involvement in a movie series inspired by battling toys, eighties cartoons, and theme-park lines. But now, we’ve got the exploding straw that broke the camel’s seductively arched back: After enduring the unenthused gripes of his two leads, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, Bay has apparently been forced to his breaking point by the recent comments from Hugo Weaving, who called his voice-acting gig as Transformers villain Megatron a “meaningless” job that he “didn’t care about.” Replied Bay on his website:
Do you ever get sick of actors that make $15 million a picture, or even $200,000 for voiceover work that took a brisk one hour and 43 minutes to complete, and then complain about their jobs?
With all the problems facing our world today, do these grumbling thespians really think people reading the news actually care about trivial complaints that their job wasn’t “artistic enough” or “fulfilling enough”? […] What happened to people who had integrity, who did a job, got paid for their hard work, and just smiled afterward? Be happy you even have a job — let alone a job that pays you more than 98% of the people in America.
I have a wonderful idea for all those whiners: They can give their “unhappy job money” to a wonderful Elephant Rescue. It’s the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Africa. I will match the funds they donate.
Are you on Team Bay now, kind of? Does it surprise you? How does it feel? You look great. Awesome tan.
