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"Shia LaBeouf has confessed that he considers Megan Fox&amp;#039;s absence from Transformers: Dark of the Moon to be a &amp;quot;blessing&amp;quot;.  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&amp;#039;s on-screen counterpart as it meant that there was &amp;quot;no arc&amp;quot; in the films. Watch our Transformers interview with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Michael Bay below:  &amp;quot;I love Megan. She was great in the movies she was in... fun to work with, great energy, great personality. But it&amp;#039;s kind of a blessing that she wasn&amp;#039;t in this movie... selfishly,&amp;quot; LaBeouf explained. &amp;quot;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.&amp;quot; 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:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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