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“Mystery Men” was, in fact, Bay’s fourth credit as an actor. He had previously appeared in an episode of “Miami Vice” as “Goon #3,” and he cameoed as a SLED Agent in a 1986 TV movie called “Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo.” He also appeared on camera as a NASA scientist in his own 1998 film “Armageddon.” None of these roles required a lot in the way of acting chops. The leader of The Frat Boys didn’t necessarily either, but he did have one notable closeup wherein he asked about the brewskis. He needed to be in costume, and he needed to sit in a large group of other actors while taking cues from Rush, who was prone to improv. And he had to — horror of horrors — take direction from someone else, who used cameras he didn’t like. He even called cut on himself. In a 1999 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bay described his “Mystery Men” experience in less than glowing terms:
“Geoffrey Rush started improvising, and I said my line at the wrong point and then I go ‘Cut! I f***ed that up.’ And then [director Kinka Usher] was shooting me with this wide thing in front of my nostrils. I was like, ‘You cannot put me on film with that piece-of-s*** lens.'”
Bay also got to experience, firsthand, how much waiting around in trailers actors have to do. He was so put off by the experience, he made himself a promise:
“I sat in my trailer so bored. There was nothing in the fridge. There was a bed slipcover with no sheet. From now on in every movie I direct there are going to be video games, a fully stocked fridge, and videos of all my past movies.”
It would be interesting to hear if Yahya Abdul-Mateen II or Jake Gyllenhaal, while working on “Ambulance,” were watching “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and playing “Yo! Noid” in their trailers in between their scenes.
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