When Bay told the brothers he wasn't paying shit, they returned an hour later with one of them wielding a "long air-conditioner unit," Bay wrote, because Hong Kong is apparently always on the verge of breaking out into a wacky martial arts fight. We'll let him describe the next part, because he makes it sound like it's a scene from his movies and he's the Shia LaBeouf character:

Michael Bay
There's even pointless product placement.

Bay sustained unspecified facial injuries but managed to wrestle the air-conditioner away from the man and prevented "what could have been a serious incident," according to a statement from Paramount that was surprisingly restrained in that it wasn't accompanied by a sick guitar solo. The men were then taken into custody, and the filming of Transformers 4 was able to continue without a hitch. Hurray.

Apple Daily
Their sentence was having to watch Transformers 4.

Leguizamo has also said, "I'm not the only person he's hit without warning," adding that Seagal threatened to punch him for telling this story (which is an improvement, because at least he's giving people a warning now).

It would be easy to dismiss Leguizamo as a comedian exaggerating an anecdote, but so many people have surreal Steven Seagal stories that we're considering launching a sister site to catalog them all. Before actor/stunt coordinator/true badass Stephen Quadros worked with him on Exit Wounds, Quadros had already heard rumors that Seagal liked to bully stuntmen and put them through idiotic physical tests. In particular, he had heard that Seagal liked to kick them in the junk to see if they were wearing cups, which is a tactic we assume the multi-millionaire movie star learned on a middle school playground.

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"I'd punch your nuts with my hand but, you know, no homo."

Quadros has noted that that he knows "guys [Seagal] has hurt to the point of having to have surgery" -- so when it came time to meet Mr. Nutcracker himself for Exit Wounds, Quadros was understandably concerned about the safety of his genetic legacy. What followed was a Monty Python-esque situation in which Quadros subtly tried to stand a little sideways as they talked, only for Seagal to move and place himself in perfect groin-kicking position every time. Eventually, Quadros made like a tree with an excuse to leave, only for Seagal to later come up and grab his wrist. When Quadros got out of the hold, Seagal pointed at him, said, "You're good," and strolled off, because Seagal apparently thinks that life is an action movie and he's the tough, eccentric police chief. Incidentally:

Forbes
This would be funnier if it was from a sitcom and not a reality show.

But to be fair, we can't blame this behavior on Seagal being an out-of-touch Hollywood asshole, because even before he was famous, he managed to break Sean Connery's wrist while training in aikido. Anyway, please send all punching threats through our feedback form, thanks.

It's hard to imagine anyone experiencing an emotion on the set of Jaws 2 beyond "impatiently waiting to be paid" -- but at least one person did. Apparently, Roy Scheider, who was only in the sequel out of contractual obligation, saw his participation as an affront from both the studio and God and, in lieu of the ability to punch either in the face, decided to take it out on the director.

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Who presumably hated Scheider for replacing all his dialogue with "You're gonna need a bigger boat."

Scheider was once again playing Police Chief Brody, which will be ironic a paragraph from now. He simply didn't get along with director Jeannot "Not Steven Spielberg" Szwarc, and he did not hesitate to let him know. He criticized Szwarc for wasting time, for obsessing over technical details, for not listening to his stars, and, worst of all, for being a glorified TV director. Which is a little unfair, because Szwarc directed The Rockford Files, and we'd love to see Rockford solve the case of a robot shark eating a bunch of people.

Anyway, producer David Brown, having grown sick of his director and his star sniping at each other, arranged a meeting/intervention so the two could hash out their differences. At this meeting, Szwarc told Scheider, "You have quite an ego," to which Scheider, a former boxer, responded by throwing Szwarc into a wall and kind of proving his point. So either the intervention didn't go well because all Hollywood meetings in the '70s had a two-cocaine-snort minimum or Scheider was a bit crazy. Or both, probably.

Roy Schneider: A Film Biography
"Would a person with a huge ego throw this giant hissy fit?! Oh, wait, I see your point." *punch*

The two brawled, Brown took his attempted intervention to the physical level, and legendary film editor Verna Fields, who happened to be visiting that day, yelled at Brown and Szwarc to not ruin the star's face (his nuts weren't on camera so they were fair play, presumably). Eventually Fields got them to stop by sitting on them. At this point, it's important that you know what Verna Fields looked like:

American Film Institute
That Oscar was Scheider's, but Hollywood law dictates that
you get to keep the awards of everyone you best in combat.

Once Fields had tamed the men, Brown pulled out a bottle of Scotch and got the combatants drunk enough to finally settle their differences. It's a good thing that Scheider didn't have access to an oxygen tank and a gun. But, as it stood, the men were able to put aside their mutual hatred long enough to roll up their sleeves and create a thoroughly mediocre sequel that no one's cared about for decades.

So Lustig tricked Speakman into filming the shots he needed by letting him do what he felt would inspire the youth of America, only to later manipulate the bejesus out of the footage during editing. However, word got out and Speakman, a trained martial artist, stormed into the editing booth and threatened to kill Lustig with his "karate bullshit" -- all of which is making us wonder if Speakman was the product of an only partially successful attempt to clone Steven Seagal. Understandably not wanting any karate bullshit in his future, Lustig called it quits on the basically already finished film and had his name removed.

New City Releasing
"Director" Rick Avery worked on Hot Boyz too ... as a stuntman.

But, shockingly, threatening to murder someone because you think their movie is too violent is not an effective strategy, and Lustig's cut of the climax remained. Double standards with violence were apparently just standard procedure for Speakman -- at another point during filming, Speakman had a tiny toady following him around with "a bag of weapons." To be fair, he did set an example for the Children of America, albeit only the ones that grew up to gawk at the low points of pop culture on the internet (say hi, kids!).