If you want to feel your brain warm, swell and puddle in bloody droplets inside your ear canals, you could do worse than to spend hours reading the message boards at producer Don Murphy's site and Michael Bay's own. Everyone there has a suggestion or five (often misspelled and/or adventurously underpunctuated) as to who Shia LaBeouf's new 'bot-battling vixen should be, but you need only pay attention to one contributor: a guy with the nom de board "iceforest" or, on Bay's site (which he helps run), "Nelson." In the last 36 hours, his comments to folks mentioning rumored front-runner Gemma Arterton have gone a little like this:
Not even close. As in the rumor of who's going to be the new girl.
Maybe one small tattoo. No hints, but it's not Gemma.
Well, then. For the record, the other rumored front-runner -- Israeli bikini/lingerie model Bar Refaeli -- does not appear to have any tattoos. Scarlett Johansson has the forearm sunset thing, but she's probably too expensive and has already done her time with Bay. Here at ML HQ we've narrowed it down to Mila Kunis (wrist tattoo) and Amanda Seyfried (foot tattoo), neither of whom would wash Bay's Ferrari for the part but wouldn't think twice about that paycheck. If it's good enough for Frances McDormand, it's good enough for them (though, if we're being honest, Seyfried is probably too big a star by now).
Or maybe we're completely off! Like I said, grain of salt. Let's hear yours if you've got them.
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