We already know what Anthony Hopkins thinks of Michael Bay as a director, but we now have some more discussion about the man, the filming, and the car chase scenes that he took part in during the shooting of Transformers: The Last Knight! Courtesy of
TV3 Ireland, who report an interview in Men's Health magazine, we have some tidbits about he behind the scenes. Check some snippets out below!
"I had two American stunt drivers who were crazy," he told Men's Health magazine. "I had to sit in this kind of jet car. It was a low seat, hard to get into the damn thing. So they strap you in, you take a deep breath, here we go, and, 'Action!'
"And then there are these helicopters flying low, which is scary, and you're doing 80 miles through the Admiralty Arch (in London). Of course something could go wrong. You could get killed, I guess. But I come from the school of 'just get on with it.'"
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The director has a reputation for being tough to work with but Anthony, 79, didn't find that to be the case.
"I've worked with some people who are impossible or incompetent; Michael is the opposite of that," he insisted. "He's not just competent, he's a kind of genius. Very prepared. He's impatient and irascible, but there's a great sense of humour in him."