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Shia LaBeouf: 'Megan Fox Transformers axe a blessing'

Published Tuesday, Jun 28 2011, 05:10 BST | By Jennifer Still | 4 comments

Shia LaBeouf has confessed that he considers Megan Fox's absence from Transformers: Dark of the Moon to be a "blessing".

Fox left the franchise and her role as Mikaela Banes before the third film after falling out with director Michael Bay and was replaced by British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

LaBeouf told E Online that he felt his character Sam Witwicky was held back by Fox's on-screen counterpart as it meant that there was "no arc" in the films.

Watch our Transformers interview with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Michael Bay below:

"I love Megan. She was great in the movies she was in... fun to work with, great energy, great personality. But it's kind of a blessing that she wasn't in this movie... selfishly," LaBeouf explained.

"In the second movie, [Sam and Mikaela] became one character. There was no arc. There was no room for Sam to be heroic. They were sharing the same experience."

LaBeouf recently insisted that he is finished with the Transformers franchise and will not return for a fourth film.

Watch a trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon below: