Michael Bay and Hugo Weaving in verbal war?

It seems the war between director Michael Bay and those who worked for him on the Transformers trilogy is taking on a new combatant this week. As weel documented before, the director took offense to comments made by Megan Fox that subsequently led to her release from Transformers 3. Now it appears that he may now be involved in a war of words with Hugo Weaving, who voiced the villainous Megatron in the three films. Weaving spoke recently about his lack of desire to return to any comic book based movies, specifically citing his work on Captain America. He also made comments on his time voicing Megatron.

That’s a weird job for me because it honestly was a two-hour voice job, initially. I was doing a play and I actually didn’t have time, anyway. It was one of the only things I’ve ever done where I had no knowledge of it, I didn’t care about it, I didn’t think about it. They wanted me to do it. In one way, I regret that bit. I don’t regret doing it, but I very rarely do something if it’s meaningless. It was meaningless to me, honestly. I don’t mean that in any nasty way. I did it. It was a two-hour voice job, while I was doing other things. Of course, it’s a massive film that’s made masses of money. I just happened to be the voice of one of the iconic villainous characters. But, my link to that and to Michael Bay is so minimal. I have never met him. I was never on set. I’ve seen his face on Skype. I know nothing about him, really. I just went in and did it. I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean. That sounds absolutely pathetic! I’ve never done anything like that, in my life. It’s hard to say any more about it than that, really.

The comments did not sit well with many fans. They did not sit well with Bay either. Bay took to the internet to address the comments made. He did not specifically mention Weaving, but it’s hard to think that his comments were directed at someone else.

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”? I guess The Hollywood Reporter thinks so.

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.

Michael Bay

Is Bay flying off the handle on this one? Does either side have a valid point?

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