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MEGAN FOX
quit movie blockbuster
Transformers 3 after a
blazing row with superstar
director MICHAEL BAY over
her vanishing weight,
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Pete Samson reports for
The U.K. Sun
May 21st, 2010.
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Fox‘s fragile frame concerned
the director and his team on the
set as they prepared to shoot the
third installment of the movie
franchise that made her a star.
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Bay,
45,
thought the 24-year-old looked
“unhealthy” and wanted her to
put on weight if she wanted to
resume her role as Mikaela Banes
in the third film.
This sparked a massive fight
and left the blockbuster looking
for a new leading lady with
production beginning
this month.
A source on the movie
revealed yesterday:
“Megan stormed out after
a huge row with Michael Bay.
“He thinks she has lost too
much weight and looks too frail.
He wanted her to put on some
weight and it all kicked off.
“The crew don’t
think she looks well,
let alone the wholesome,
curvy star they cast
in the first film.
She’s going for this gaunt,
pale image and it just
looks unhealthy.”
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This is not the first time Fox –
who regularly tops world’s
sexiest woman polls –
has found herself at the
centre of the size zero row.
She has been criticised for
revealing she guzzles down
neat vinegar as a quick fix
to shed pounds.
She has also previously
told how she fell into
depression after her
weight plummeted.
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She said last year:
“I turned into a zombie.
I lost like 30 pounds.
I was telling myself
I was method acting,
which was not true.
I ended up getting sick
and my hair started
falling out.”
And just this week
she told a magazine:
“I’ll starve to death
before I’ll cook for myself.
I think I could survive
a week without eating.”
Fox and director Bay have
had a volatile relationship
since he cast her in the
Transformers film that
shot her to superstardom.
She compared the director
to Adolf Hitler in an interview
last year and called him
a “nightmare” work –
for sparking rumours she
would be dumped from
the third film.
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But he tried to dispel the
rumours when he announced
the movie in October,
writing online:
“Megan Fox,
welcome back.
I promise no alien robots
will harm you in any way
during the production of
this motion picture.”
Rumours swept Hollywood
this week that Fox had been
fired by the director.
But Fox‘s spokesman
insisted yesterday:
“Megan Fox will not be
starring in Transformers 3
It was her decision
not to return.”
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The franchise is one the
most successful in Hollywood
history having made more
than £1 billion worldwide.
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