'Transformers' robots under fire

June 25, 2009 It's one thing when robot cars are racial stereotypes," he said, "but the movie also had a bucktoothed black guy who is briefly in one scene who's also a stereotype. When he took the role, he was told that the alien robots learned about human culture through the Web and that the twins were "wannabe gangster types." "It's an alien who uploaded information from the Internet and put together the conglomeration and formed this cadence, way of speaking and body language that was accumulated over X amount of years of information and that's what came out," the 40-year-old actor said.

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