Outfoxed? Megan Scrambles To Set Record Straight On Who Nixed Transformers Role
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Outfoxed? Megan Scrambles To Set Record Straight On Who Nixed Transformers Role
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS (i.e. me) are speculating about the curious timing of the just-released topless snaps of the radioactively hot Mega Fox.
Megan's publicly pouting over the pics, taken while she played an angelic circus freak in Passion Play with Mickey Rourke. But isn't their appearance the perfect ruse to distract from the brouhaha over who quit whom -- Megan or the Hitleresque director Michael Bay?
"It was her decision not to return,'' the starlet's mouthpiece told People. "She wishes the franchise the best."
Deadline Hollywood reported Wednesday that Paramount Pictures passed on Fox's option for the sequel.
Rumors are bouncing that the actress was dropped from the Transformers franchise after she bashed Bay in an Enertainment Weekly interview.
"I mean, I can't s--- on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me," Megan carelessly dissed. "But I don't want to blow smoke up people's ass. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting."
In reaction, Bay dismissed Megan as a "ridiculous" 23-year-old, and disagreed "100 percent" that his movies are only about tits and explosions. (Um, Michael, Urban Dictionary disagrees with you.)
But the hottie with the clubbed thumbs still wasn't finished. In a subsequent interview, she said Bay "wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.
"So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode,'' she spewed. " I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it's endearing to watch him. He's vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he's a tyrant."
Wags are convinced that the "hopelessly awkward" director took his revenge on the starlet, who was trashed by his crew as stupid, ungracious trailer vermin. But my fingers are crossed that she really did opt out of windowdressing in Bay's drek and is transforming into a smart fierce actress.
