We can only hope that studio Paramount won’t now be subjected to the kind of backlash suffered by Lucasfilm over its decision to shift the gender balance among Star Wars characters over the past few episodes. Instead of being an object of desire for the saga’s presumably mostly male and teenage audience, the tomboyish Charlie Watson is presented through a filter borrowed from 1980s teen movies such as Karate Kid, Risky Business and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, each of which also treated cars as an essential part of the coming-of-age process. Both actors play characters in their late teens, but while Fox spent most of her movie being gleefully leered at by Bay’s cameras – and her replacement Rosie Huntington-Whiteley got it even worse in 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon – Steinfeld has apparently escaped such horrors. Steinfeld is 21, the same age Megan Fox was when she appeared as Mikaela Banes in Bay’s first Transformers movie in 2007.
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