Howard Stern turns down Transformers Movie Role

[Brian Damage]

Howard Stern was asked to briefly voice Soundwave in the upcoming Transformers movie. For those of you who don’t know, Soundwave takes the form of small consumer electronic devices. In the original cartoon series, Soundwave was a boombox. At one point in the new movie, the Transformer will be disguised as a radio, and according to Stern, Dreamworks asked the king of all media to lend his voice.




“They contracted me like a week ago. My agent said they wanted my voice on the radio,” Stern revealed on Monday morning’s radio show. “And the letter sucks me in, it goes [paraphrasing]: We feel you represent America’s icon of radio, and when that radio turns on just for a couple seconds, the audience gets to hear your voice. The crowd will go insane. And I’m like, YEAH! Then my agent gets a hold of me. It’s almost like he shakes me up and smacks me.”

“I said to him [agent]: This movie, The Transformers, it could be a really big movie. And he goes ‘So, it won’t be because of you, because your f’n voice is on the radio,” Stern said. “I thought it might be kinda cool but my agent said ‘you don’t want to be in the movie as an f’n voice on the radio. And I said, you know, you’re right.”

[TJL]

Aw, he should have done it. It would have been a nice surprise for the audience.

Howard will never ever get another starring role in a movie. "Private Parts" was it for him. Sometimes i would wish he would get off his high horse and participate in something outside his own radio world. This small part in the Transformers movie would have been a fun little publicity stunt for him.