Supermodel Bar Paly and Tony Shalhoub Joining Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain’

Since the next movie from Michael Bay is a small budget film called Pain & Gain that apparently has minimal action (supposedly only one explosion), how would audiences ever know they were watching a film from the director of Armageddon and the entire Transformers franchise? Cast a hot supermodel. That’s exactly what Bay has done as Variety reports that Bar Paly, an Israeli supermodel with a little acting experience is in final negotiations to join Dwayne Johnson, Mark Wahlberg and Anthony Mackie in the story of a group of bodybuilders who engaged in a campaign of kidnapping, extortion and murder in Florida. Paly will play Sabina Petrescu, an illegal immigrant and former beauty queen who dreams of becoming the next Marilyn Monroe. Wahlberg’s character promises to make her a star, and she in turn agrees to do whatever he asks in the service of her new country. She’s not new to acting …