Want to know why Megan Fox left Transformers 3?
It’s been over a year since it was announced that Megan Fox left Michael Bay’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon (here), and was replaced with Victoria Secret Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as the film’s love interest. Since then, the rage has died down of Fox either quitting (here), or getting fired from the set. However, we have yet to still know just what caused her to get fired or quit the film. Well, in an interview with Hero Complex, Shia LeBeouf (Sam Witwicky in the films) explains why she probably left.
“Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with Michael, who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women. Mike films women in a way that appeals to a 16-year-old sexuality. It’s summer. It’s Micheal’s style. And I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it. This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it. When Mike would ask her to do specific things, there was no time for fluffy talk. We’re on the run. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time for [LeBeouf assumes a gentle voice] ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’”
While this does sound reasonable, and you can probably see the same thing Shia comments on in the other films Bay has filmed. However, you could also argue that Fox’s character in Transformers was the same as any other character she’s played so far. But this does pretty much confirm Fox’s past comments about Bay’s filming, and would make sense for her to want to distance herself from it.
Luckily for Michael Bay, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley doesn’t have the same feelings towards Bay’s filming of women. “Rosie comes with this Victoria’s Secret background, and she’s comfortable with it, so she can get down with Mike’s way of working and it makes the whole set vibe very different,” LeBeouf said. We haven’t seen much of Whiteley’s acting in the film (other than a clip (here)), but Shia comments her character brings a “different female energy than he experienced with Mikaela, who was a very cold biker chick.” LeBeouf describes Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) as “more of a maternal, loving type. Sam wants a domestic, eggs-in-the-morning kind of a thing.”
Fans will always be upset that Fox won’t be starring in the film, but it will be interesting to see how they react when we see more of Whiteley in the film when it opens on June 29th.
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