Michael Bay brought in Will Smith to 'reality check' his actor Tyrese Gibson after he irritated him on the set of 'Transformers'.



Gibson said that Smith took him out to dinner to lecture him over his behaviour while he was filming 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' with Bay.



“The first dinner that me and Will had, I called it the reality check dinner... I probably ran from the dinner table about 15 times during this conversation because he was dropping such heavy jewels (of wisdom) on me. It was crazy,” he told Access Hollywood.









[First look: Optimus Prime re-designed for Transformers 4]





“At the time, I was in the thick of negotiating for 'Transformers 2' and I'd made some mistakes on the set of Transformers 1 and p**sed Michael Bay off and I didn't know it.



“He called Will, who obviously has a relationship with him, and he told him about my shortcomings, my mistakes and things I was doing. It was a combination of a bunch of different stuff that I wasn't aware of.”



Gibson, who is also one of the stars of the 'Fast & Furious' series, added that he was indebted to the 'Men In Black' A-lister for his advice.



“The problem in Hollywood is that people will witness you kill your own career and never step in to just have a conversation with you about what you could be doing better," he said.



Bay, who is notorious for being one of the most feared directors in Hollywood, has fallen out with his stars over their on-set behaviour in the past.





[New robots set for Transformers 4]





“There are some actors who misbehave on sets, but I have a way about me so they never misbehave,” Bay has said.



“Some actors who I've heard bad stories about from other sets have been great with me, because I have this attitude that people know I'm in charge. If you waffle, actors can run all over you and abuse you.”



Megan Fox once notoriously fell foul of the director, saying: “Michael wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So, he's a nightmare to work for.”

































