Over the years, Bay has become widely recognized for his action-packed films, includingBad BoysandThe Rock.
Bay has also produced many projects, including theA Quiet Placefranchise and Prime VideosJack Ryan.
I’d done ‘Event Horizon,’ which was part of an ensemble.
I already had a bit of a career going in England.
I was offered one of the astronauts in ‘Armageddon.’
And I went, ‘I can’t drop out!’
And I went, ‘Mate, this is a David Thewlis project!
But it doesn’t make any difference.
I’m still a professional actor.
I signed a contract.’
[He said,] ‘You let us handle that.’
And I went, ‘No!
You’re not handling anything.
I’m getting up in six hours and I’m on set.’
It’s only eight days.'
Six months, and we can get you some other meetings and work will go well.'
So, it was an odd film for me.
I don’t know if it’s an anomaly.
On the very first day I did, frankly, the only scene I had lots of lines in.
And Michael Bay took a shining to me and said, ‘Oh, that was great.
Let’s have you back.
We’ll give you a clipboard, we’ll stick you next to Billy Bob.
And then I was there, essentially as an extra, for six months.
It’s not his fault.
Look, I’m around producing occasionally, very rarely directing.
You want the best people you’re able to have on set to do anything at all.
It’s not insulting, but it’s just I didn’t have any choice.
I was paid for the whole film.
It was an odd experience.
The entire film, frankly.
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He’s also recently made a splash with his role in thecast ofThe White Lotusseason 3.
Instead, it was his proposal of destroying the space rock from within that led NASA to gather core-drillers.
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