MICHAEL BAY takes a shot at HUGO WEAVING, and it’s…awesome? WTF.
Something I never thought would happen…has. Michael Bay has barfed up some sentiment that I can nod my head in agreement with. Recently Hugo Weaving noted that he wouldn’t want to play the Red Skull again, and also that he regretted doing voiceover work for the Transformers flicks. At the time, I thought it was a bit douche for Weaving to consider himself above rocking the Red Skull. I mean, bro. C’mon. You’re in Matrix Revolutions. Not only that, but to have no problem collecting a check for Transformers (terrible flicks, granted) and then coming out against it? Smacks of pretentious hypocrisy. Somehow. Fucking somehow, Michael Bay echoes my own sentiments.
Indie Wire:
Australian actor Hugo Weaving recently said he’s not very keen on returning to Marvel’s “Captain America” franchise (he plays the Red Skull villain).
And Weaving, who has already talked a bit of trash about Michael Bay‘s “Transformers” series in the past — claiming he had not seen any of the movies he had voiced (he plays Megatron) and sounding rather flippant about it — took a few more digs at the films again this week calling his voice work on the project “meaningless.”
“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,” Weaving told Collider on the weekend. “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.”
Nasty or not, a lot of geek sites friendly to “Transformers” and Michael Bay raised their eyebrows and took notice. It didn’t take long until the always vocal Michael Bay shot back 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”? 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.”