8 Dick Moves Filmmakers Used To Improve Actors' Performances

4. Michael Bay Has His Movie Stars Terrorise An Innocent Bit Actor

Bad Boys 2 was a movie that happened. At least, it must have, because there's all kinds of documentation about it on IMDB (it starred someone named Martin Lawrence, if that helps jar your memory at all). Anyhow, for a scene that has Lawrence's character (who the internet tells me is a police officer) intimidating his teenage daughter's date, Reggie, director Michael Bay wanted to get an authentically scared reaction from the young man. So instead of employing the traditional Michael Bay method acting scares - jumping out from behind a bush and then exploding something - he just had Lawrence be as big of an a-hole as he could possibly be to Dennis Greene, the kid playing Reggie. For extra fun, Bay didn't mention the fact that Will Smith would join in the tongue-lashing... or that he would pull out a gun and wave it frantically in front of the poor kid's face. Oh, and if you do a quick search of "Dennis Greene," you'll find that Bad Boys 2 was the first and last movie he ever participated in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMDn88iZ9wQ