Hugo
Weaving was the face under the Red Skull's heavy latex and the voice of
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The Daily Telegraph reports
While out promoting his new film, the time-hopping epic Cloud Atlas, Hugo Weaving opened up about the harsh realities of making blockbusters.
Weaving, whose deadpan Agent Smith in The Matrix made him Hollywood's new go-to-guy for all things sinister, told Collider.com that his involvement in the hugely successful Transformers films was meaningless.
He also revealed why he'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to the Marvel Universe.
Weaving was the voice of Megatron in Transformers, and the two sequels that followed. The films, which were directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg made more than two-and-half billion dollars at the box office but Weaving's involvement was minimal to say the least.
"It honestly was a two-hour voice job. It was one of the only things I’ve ever done where I had no knowledge of it, I didn’t care about it. In one way, I regret that bit. I don’t regret doing it, but I very rarely do something if it’s meaningless. It was meaningless to me, honestly. I don’t mean that in any nasty way," he said.
Weaving never met Bay during his very extremely brief stint on the film, although he did see his face on Skype.
"I never read the script. I just have my lines, and I don’t know what they mean. That sounds absolutely pathetic! I've never done anything like that, in my life."
Cartoon villainy doesn't appear to be Weaving's bag, with the actor telling Collider that he would be reluctant to go against Captain America again.
Weaving, who played the Red Skull in last year's Captain America: The First Avenger, said: "I didn’t think I’d be in Captain America 2 or 3. I don’t think Red Skull will be there. And it’s not something I would want to do again. I’m glad I did it. I did sign up for a number of pictures and I suppose, contractually, I would be obliged to, if they forced me to, but they wouldn’t want to force someone to do it, if they didn’t want to."
He adds: "I think I’ve done my dash with that sort of film. It was good to do it and try it out, but to be honest, it’s not the sort of film I seek out and really am excited by."
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