Bay responds to Hugo Weaving's Transformers comments

Michael Bay has responded to Hugo Weaving over comments he made about making the 'Transformers' films.

The bombastic director was emphatic about his thoughts on the remarks, which involved Weaving, who voiced evil robot Megatron in all three films, calling the projects 'meaningless'.

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In a blog post on his own website, Bay wrote: “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 isn'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 people in America.”

The post quickly disappeared from the site – perhaps because it attributed Weaving's remarks to The Hollywood Reporter when they were in fact from film site Collider – but not before being reported.

Weaving made the comments during an interview, and was brutally honest about working with Bay, who he says he never even met face-to-face.

“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,” he said.

“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.

My link to that and to Michael Bay is so minimal. I have never met him,” he added. “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.”