While in production on Transformers: The Last Knight in the United Kingdom, director Michael Bay saw the news article and promptly tracked down Freya and gave her a prime role in The Last Knight. The epileptic hound entered the British public’s hearts earlier this year when it emerged that she’d spent six years in a string of animal shelters, and had been passed over for adoption 18,000 times, which has to dent your self-confidence a bit. Whether or not having a dog like Freya reflects as well on his character on screen as it does on Bay and his crew off-screen is yet to be determined too.
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Bay posted a brief video featuring Freya hard at work on the set of Transformers: The Last Knight alongside one of the film’s stars, Sir Anthony Hopkins. When he learned of Freya’s story in the newspaper, he tweeted that not only would he give her role but that he would adopt her if no one else would.
As it turns out, Michael Bay is a dog lover with two of his own – bullmastiffs named Bonecrusher and Grace. Newcomers to the franchise in the upcoming installment include Hopkins, Isabela Moner (100 Things to Do Before High School, Growing Up Fisher), Jerrod Carmichael, Laura Haddock, and Santiago Cabrera.
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The action director chose to give her a role in his latest film, Transformers: The Last Knight.
