Mikaela Banes of Megan Fox is the most famous character of the first two films "Live Transformers". Like movie critic Lindsay Ellis once notedMikaella is the only character in the first movie "Live Transformers" with an appropriate bow, as well as the only one to travel to a clear hero. It is easy to forget that it is written with complexity, because the camera lies with the whole film. Her name is also suspicious similar to director Michael Bay, though I'm still not sure what to do from that information.

Despite the importance of Mikaella in the 2007 Transformers and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in 2009, her character was frivolously written by Bay's third entrance to the franchise, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" in 2011. She never mentioned any characters in the film, nor is the lead of the film, Sam Witwicki (Shia Labeuf), presented as a particularly broken heart out of her life. It is an unusual, awkward aspect of the film and feels particularly strange if you watch the first three films of Bay's "Transformers". How can the obvious Loveube to Sam's life disappear without explanation? It's like if Sam Raimi's "Spiderman 3" began with Mary Janeain (Kirsten Dunst) completely out of the picture.

However, fans could, however, Mikaella's absence in the "dark of the moon" was largely the result of some problems behind the scenes.

Depending on who you ask, the problem began when Fox answered a question in an interview with September 2009 A magazine for miracles About what her "favorite and least favorite" job was to work with Bay.

"He is like Napoleon and wants to create this crazy, infamous reputation of the crazy man. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is," Fox replied. "So, he's a nightmare to work, but when you move him away from a set, and he's not in the director's mode, I really enjoy his personality because he is so unpleasant, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And he is decent to see him.

Her delivery to this response was reportedly more light than it sounded, and was not completely negative, but regardless: Hitler's comment took his own life, causing countless titles from other news and allegedly attracting the attention of the "Transformers" manufacturer Steven Spielberg, who was a commentary. I would say Gq In 2011, "Spielberg said:" Complete it now ", though Spielberg Later deny Sometimes he said this.

Bay explained more about his feelings towards Fox in that interview with GQ; Although she said her comments did not mind, it is difficult not to read a little bit of bitterness in how he talks about her:

"She was in a different world, on her blackberry. You have to stay focused. And you know, Hitler something.

While most assumed that Fox was fired for Hitler's comments, and while Bay meant in that GQ interview, he fired it because she was not mentally present in the room, another reporting means that her weight and appearance is Bay's main motivation.

"Megan Fox arrives in the Transformers 3 set look too" pale "," pad "and" unhealthy "to the taste of director Michael Bay, pampering tensions that eventually pushed away", "The wrapper" Reported in 2010When Fox was still involved in production. "Bay gave Fox some time to pull his appearance together, but when he returned, the director expressed his dissatisfaction in such a way that Fox came out of the blockbuster sequel."

Fox's gaze was considered vital because, as everyone involved in those films at the time seemed happy to admit, Mikaella was first treated as eye candy and second character. "Bay's main note) for me is just to look hot, so I try my best," Fox said. First display In 2008. Bay allegedly ordered to gain weight and the "revenge of the fallen" (through The movie blog), that oppose her being under pressure to lose weight To recording "Ennenifer's body" (a movie that came out that year).

"(Michael Bay) Women in a way that appeals to the sexuality of a 16-year-old," Labeuf said Hero complex In 2011, recognizing that Fox "hardly accepted" to be in such a "role in a sexual role". An anonymous source of the "Transformer 3" set said about wrapping"Bay" wants his actresses to look in a way, and if they can't meet his absurd standards of beauty, he gets rid of them. "

Although it has never been confirmed that Bay has fired it because it has not met its beauty standards, it is understandable why the proven narrative is so lasting over the years. Bay, after all, immediately Replace the fox with the Victoria's Secret model who had zero acting experience. (We'll talk a little about Rosie Huntington-Witley.)

Although Bay's treatment of Fox was sunbathing, Fox eventually made it clear that he was not considered any of his predatory actions. "When it comes to my direct experiences with Michael, and Steven (Spielberg) on ​​the matter, I was never attacked or wicked in what I thought was a sexual way," she wrote on her Instagram page in 2020 (through Inside the hook). She also referred to the rumor at the time about her audition for the first film "Live Transformers" in action, in which Bay allegedly forced her to seduce the car at his home.

"I was not a minor at the time and I was not designed to" wash "or work on someone's cars in a way that was unusual of the material in the right scenario," Fox wrote. She also mentioned in an interview with 2018 with Andy Cohen That she and Bay have long buried the lid over their disagreements on the Transformers set.

"We are a BCS," she said, noting that she would go down to return to the Transformers franchise if Bay had ever asked her. Of course, she also admitted that, so far, the likelihood of the property returned to Mikaela Banes seemed thin.

When it was first announced that Fox was fired from "Transformers: Dark on the Moon", the fan reaction was a mixture of real disappointment in combination with the usual disappointing comments for her face to be eye candy. When it was reported, she was replaced by Rosie Huntington-Witley, it only confirmed the popular belief that she was there for sex appeal and nothing else.

The addition of that impression was the way Huntington-Witley Carly was written. Out of several rows, establishing her relationship with Sam, felt like the film's writers just replaced Mikaela's name with Carly and kept everything else the same. She had the same general person, had a job related to the car that Mikaella would love, and her relationship with Sam has already advanced to the same moment Sam and Mikaela have been slowly built in the first two live films "Transformers".

Everything about her story felt like a natural conclusion for Mikaela's bow to end, except that happened to a new Lovebodian interest that the audience never grew up. The result was that the entire romantic subtitle of the "Dark of the Moon" was a disappointment for most fans, despite action sequences in the rest of the film to be cool as it did. Even fans who were either rejected by Fox in real life and/or rejected Mikaela as a character, however, they could admit that the film feels emotionally hollow (and for Michael Bay's film, it really says something).

The good news for Fox was that, while "Transformers" could be the film she put on the map, it wasn't the best movie on her sequel until Bay fired. That honor went to "The body of Ennenifer", a 2009 horror comedy film that was not valued in its time, but has Because he developed a strong cult of the following. The film played a lot with Fox's perception of public, proving that she is very capable of playing real -depth characters. Fox will even continue in the open "body of Ennenifer" More than 10 years later with his underestimated thriller "to death".

In September 2009 There, she played a strange fan on the date of one of Will Forte's strangest characters. I have no idea what this sketch is, but I'm glad it exists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sBo5wzn4Mi

However, the most popular role of Fox's "transformers", however, was probably Reagan in the fifth and sixth season of "New Girl". Reagan is perhaps the funniest and most fond of Fox's most character. She is someone who has managed to try most fans despite having an irreplaceable role in being a short -term replacement for the main character Eses (Played by Zoe Deschanel, who briefly left the "new girl" to go to maternity leave). Reagan was supposed to appear only in the fifth season of the show, but it was popular enough that the series writers returned for a significant bow in season 6.

In other words, Fox's "New Girl" image enjoyed the opposite dynamics like her character "Transformers"; While Mikaella was supposed to have a long-term bow, but it was fallen before she could finish, Mikaella never had to have a multi-season bow, but in any case he was given. "New Girl" may not have been a glossy project as a movie "Transformers", but at least the show knew how to make the most of Fox's talent.