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Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie

Transformers News: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie

Friday, March 2nd, 2007 8:14PM CST

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Our own 1bigray has brought some new Transformers Movie news to our attention. In a recent interview Bernie Mac had this to say about his role in the upcoming Transformers Movie:

"I play a used car salesman, and all used car salesmen are full of sh*t – scuse my French – but they're con men," said Mac. "And they came to my set and I sold them the Transformer; I didn't know it was the Transformer, I thought it was a piece of junk. And the first thing you do as a salesman, a car salesman – I didn't know this, I did some investigating myself – they always sell you the 'bs' cars first. It's almost like a restaurant – get rid of the food, rotate it. When they come, I didn't know what the car exists of, and I just threw them a line; I'm a fast talker, quick whit guy. I got a chance to have some fun and Michael [Bay] – man, I've been fortunate, man, because every director allows Bernie Mac to do his thing. I have not been handcuffed since my career started from Ted Demme; every time a director, every time we'd do it straight, they always tell me, 'Now Bernie Mac it.' That's a luxury, you know."

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Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (39971)
Posted by Hotrod on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:18pm CST
Front paged and credited!
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (39975)
Posted by Burn on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:20pm CST
*blinks*

The english language just died a little more thanks to Bernic Mac. :-(
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (39988)
Posted by Mkall on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:26pm CST
Wasn't Seibs a used car salesman once?

Either way, my theory on Bernie Mac is the smaller the part the better.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (39994)
Posted by Sentinel Maximus on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:28pm CST
Don't care about Bernie much. But I can see him playing this type of character. Bernie Mac?, used car salesman?,...o-yeah.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (39998)
Posted by Super Megatron on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:29pm CST
Bernie Mac kicks ass! Good to see he's going to be in at least 2 movies this summer.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40007)
Posted by Shadowman on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:32pm CST
Super Megatron wrote:Bernie Mac kicks ass! Good to see he's going to be in at least 2 movies this summer.


Bernie Mac is all kinds of awesome.

Ooh, can't wait to see this!
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40018)
Posted by 1337W422102 on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:36pm CST
Sounds good, as long as he doesn't become Cobra Commander.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40020)
Posted by Liege Evilmus on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:39pm CST
I do most of my work for used car salesmen!

So I'm very opinionated right now over that statement.

I think what I'd realy like to say is, or more so ask; is where can I get a T-Shirt of this post!?! :grin: !?!

I break my a$$ all day for these guys who give me hell then do this all day themselves...


(thats The Whip in the backround)
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40027)
Posted by Seibertron on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:46pm CST
Mkall wrote:Wasn't Seibs a used car salesman once?

Either way, my theory on Bernie Mac is the smaller the part the better.


Heh heh. Yep. I was a used car salesman from 97 - 98 and then I flipped to new cars from 98 - 2000 because I liked selling the set price to the GM employees. The dealership I worked at for about 3 of the years I sold cars had a set price on the vehicle. If you came in, the price was right on the window. If you didn't like the price, there was nothing I could do to negotiate the price. It was an interesting and far better way to sell cars. I did it the old fashioned way during my last year of selling cars. That's when I decided that that wasn't how I wanted to spend the rest of my life so I got into programming (thank god!).
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40029)
Posted by Seibertron on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:47pm CST
Super Megatron wrote:Bernie Mac kicks ass! Good to see he's going to be in at least 2 movies this summer.


I wasn't initially thrilled about Bernie Mac being in the movie. But after I read the script last August, his role in the movie really grew on me. It'll be a fun scene in the movie I think.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40030)
Posted by Shadowman on March 2nd, 2007 @ 8:48pm CST
83457W422102 wrote:Sounds good, as long as he doesn't become Cobra Commander.


Somehow--And this is probably the lack of sleep talking--that's hilarious. :lol:
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40083)
Posted by Autobobby1 on March 2nd, 2007 @ 10:03pm CST
It's good to see recognizable actors in our movie. I just hope that he adds humor to the role!
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40091)
Posted by OptimusIsHot on March 2nd, 2007 @ 10:15pm CST
I liked him in Bad Santa and that movie with Ashton...
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40104)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 2nd, 2007 @ 10:26pm CST
Sorry I've seen a couple episodes of his series and I absolutly hate the way he acts. There's verry few things he ever says on that show that I'll agree with. Most of it I think is pure BS the way he talks about his family. I'm glad he only has a small part in the movie. It's bad enough allready without adding in actors I hate to the story.

So far as I know the movie is at least getting decent actors to play the main parts in the film and I'm hoping that'll be enough to make the movie look good because everything elce so far looks horrible.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40128)
Posted by the purifyer on March 2nd, 2007 @ 10:54pm CST
Um...what? something about going to a restaurant with rotating food and then had some fun with Michael Bay then something about getting arrested and then Bernie Mac-ing it?

Ok I'm lost.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40196)
Posted by demarcusgd on March 3rd, 2007 @ 12:05am CST
I never in a million years have would've thought I would hear Bernie Mac's name and Transformers in the same sentence. Oh well, it might me fun. But from the interview I wonder if he knows what he calls being told to "Bernie Mac it" is really just type casting.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40231)
Posted by proximus on March 3rd, 2007 @ 1:21am CST
No idea what he just said, but I'll buy that for a dollar.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40234)
Posted by Anonymous on March 3rd, 2007 @ 1:24am CST
Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40267)
Posted by JEDI ALCHEMIST on March 3rd, 2007 @ 1:52am CST
god I hate that guy
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40541)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 3rd, 2007 @ 6:08am CST
demarcusgd wrote:I never in a million years have would've thought I would hear Bernie Mac's name and Transformers in the same sentence. Oh well, it might me fun. But from the interview I wonder if he knows what he calls being told to "Bernie Mac it" is really just type casting.
Yup, you got that right.

BTW I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't understand a freaking word he was saying in that interview. :lol:
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40612)
Posted by emeraldbeacon on March 3rd, 2007 @ 1:03pm CST
As long as he comes in small doses, I have no problem with Bernie Mac. It's when he's tapped to take a more prominent role that things start to fall apart...
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40701)
Posted by PrimulArchangel on March 3rd, 2007 @ 3:00pm CST
Yeah The Mac Man is funny as hell , hes perfect for the part of a used car salesman lol .. When i first read he was playing this part way back when it first came out i was like " yeah thats a perfect role for him "

I never in a million years have would've thought I would hear Bernie Mac's name and Transformers in the same sentence. Oh well, it might me fun. But from the interview I wonder if he knows what he calls being told to "Bernie Mac it" is really just type casting.


It's because he puts his own spin on things and alot of the time don't follow the script and it comes out better then what the writers wrote..
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (40959)
Posted by Black Bumblebee on March 3rd, 2007 @ 8:08pm CST
Everyone who's read the script (hasn't everyone, by now?) knows the part is very very small... might be a whole of 2-3 min. of the entire movie.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (41003)
Posted by Shadowman on March 3rd, 2007 @ 8:55pm CST
Black Bumblebee wrote:Everyone who's read the script (hasn't everyone, by now?) knows the part is very very small... might be a whole of 2-3 min. of the entire movie.


I haven't.

Could someone PM it to me? I've been looking all over the internet, but I can't find it.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (41364)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 4th, 2007 @ 4:37am CST
PrimulArchangel wrote:Yeah The Mac Man is funny as hell , hes perfect for the part of a used car salesman lol .. When i first read he was playing this part way back when it first came out i was like " yeah thats a perfect role for him "

I never in a million years have would've thought I would hear Bernie Mac's name and Transformers in the same sentence. Oh well, it might me fun. But from the interview I wonder if he knows what he calls being told to "Bernie Mac it" is really just type casting.


It's because he puts his own spin on things and alot of the time don't follow the script and it comes out better then what the writers wrote..
This has absolutly nothing to do with this topic but why Soundwave wearing a diper?

And just so it's not a waisted post... na that's too grose to thank about and of course Bernie Mac don't wear dipers. :lol:
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (41596)
Posted by PrimulArchangel on March 4th, 2007 @ 1:23pm CST
because that titanium soundwave looks like its wearing a diper lol
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (41653)
Posted by Shadowman on March 4th, 2007 @ 3:13pm CST
PrimulArchangel wrote:because that titanium soundwave looks like its wearing a diper lol


Clever, but it should be Bob the Contructicon.

Close, but no cigar.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (42729)
Posted by Brakethrough on March 5th, 2007 @ 2:34pm CST
83457W422102 wrote:Sounds good, as long as he doesn't become Cobra Commander.


Wassss...Once...aaaa...MAAAAC!
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43373)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 6th, 2007 @ 1:42am CST
Shadowman wrote:Bob the Contructicon.
I thought his name was Glen?
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43511)
Posted by dj_funk_gut on March 6th, 2007 @ 8:21am CST
What he said wasn't hard to understand at all. For people to claim ignorance to what he was saying is just a shame.

And to the person who said Throw him some KFC..WTF??

the purifyer wrote:Um...what? something about going to a restaurant with rotating food and then had some fun with Michael Bay then something about getting arrested and then Bernie Mac-ing it?

Ok I'm lost.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43661)
Posted by PrimulArchangel on March 6th, 2007 @ 12:11pm CST
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43762)
Posted by Shadowman on March 6th, 2007 @ 2:34pm CST
Saber Prime wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Bob the Contructicon.
I thought his name was Glen?


On the box, it mentions the popular children's show character Bob the Builder.

PrimulArchangel wrote:
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.


Yeah, that was pretty racist. :?
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43779)
Posted by Ironhidensh on March 6th, 2007 @ 3:00pm CST
PrimulArchangel wrote:
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.


Oh grow the hell up. Bernie Mac himself would have laughed at that. Then called us crackers.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (43784)
Posted by The Mad Asshatter on March 6th, 2007 @ 3:04pm CST
sup d00ds?


I used a Mac c0mputar machine once.

It was kinda cool.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44129)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 6th, 2007 @ 8:29pm CST
Shadowman wrote:
Saber Prime wrote:
Shadowman wrote:Bob the Contructicon.
I thought his name was Glen?


On the box, it mentions the popular children's show character Bob the Builder.
I know. He changed Bob the Builder to Bob the Constructicon. I was making a comment about the Constructicon having a human name and one of them is actully named Glen in Japan.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44133)
Posted by Saber Prime on March 6th, 2007 @ 8:31pm CST
dj_funk_gut wrote:What he said wasn't hard to understand at all. For people to claim ignorance to what he was saying is just a shame.

And to the person who said Throw him some KFC..WTF??

the purifyer wrote:Um...what? something about going to a restaurant with rotating food and then had some fun with Michael Bay then something about getting arrested and then Bernie Mac-ing it?

Ok I'm lost.
You abviosly speak Bernie Mac, would you care to translate for us? I don't have my Bernie Mac to English Dictionary with me.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44533)
Posted by Leonardo on March 7th, 2007 @ 5:33am CST
Shadowman wrote:
PrimulArchangel wrote:
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.


Yeah, that was pretty racist. :?


Could someone explain this to me, please? I don't see why it was racist, largely because I don't get the joke. What's KFC got to do with either racism or Bernie Mac?
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44582)
Posted by The Mad Asshatter on March 7th, 2007 @ 7:11am CST
Leonardo wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
PrimulArchangel wrote:
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.


Yeah, that was pretty racist. :?


Could someone explain this to me, please? I don't see why it was racist, largely because I don't get the joke. What's KFC got to do with either racism or Bernie Mac?


KFC has nothing to do with Bernie Mac.

It's racist because "kary" is implying that because Bernie is of African American decent, his favorite food must automatically be KFC.

It's a stereotypical misconception that most African Americans love KFC and other fried fatty foods. "Kary"'s comment was intentionally inflamatory and in no way contributed to any sort of intelligent discussion.
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44605)
Posted by skywarp-2 on March 7th, 2007 @ 7:51am CST
Shadow12 wrote:
Leonardo wrote:
Shadowman wrote:
PrimulArchangel wrote:
kary wrote:Thanks Bernie, now I'll throw you a bucket of KFC.

WTF?? you should be baned for making such a racist comment.


Yeah, that was pretty racist. :?


Could someone explain this to me, please? I don't see why it was racist, largely because I don't get the joke. What's KFC got to do with either racism or Bernie Mac?


KFC has nothing to do with Bernie Mac.

It's racist because "kary" is implying that because Bernie is of African American decent, his favorite food must automatically be KFC.

It's a stereotypical misconception that most African Americans love KFC and other fried fatty foods. "Kary"'s comment was intentionally inflamatory and in no way contributed to any sort of intelligent discussion.



Actually to be really racist, KFC is not the African American choice... Now if he would have said throw him a bucket of Churches Chicken, or Popeyes then i could see it.. but not KFC..

Plus I own this shirt, and all my African American friends laugh every time they see it..

http://www.tshirthell.com/store/product ... ductid=748


I think White people get overly concerned about their comments being racist versus what ethnic people will actually consider racist..

besides most of the racism i have encountered was ethnic on White..and not Vice Versa..

And if you think about it..white people in America are not the majority, from mexico downward its almost totally hispanic, Latino, or whatever..

the US is now only 50% white or caucasian, the rest 50% ethnic, and Canada is 90% white the rest 10% ethnic.. so down south has us beat by a long shot..

Throwing a bucket of KFC is not racist because Bernie Mac has stated serveral Hundred times in interviews and in his stand up comedy that he loves KFC..


Besides I'm italian, we ruled the known world for over a thousand years as Romans,we don't descriminate, we hate all races equally.. smile... :grin:
Re: Bernie Mac Speaks on his Role in the Transformers Movie (44952)
Posted by Calenatarion on March 7th, 2007 @ 4:06pm CST
Come on guys, keep on topic.

Kary probably didn't mean it that way. If so, he knows he should watch his words.

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