Canine-crazy filmmaker Michael Bay has been honoured in a Hollywood ceremony along with his very unwilling looking dog.
The Transformers director, known to give his pets film roles and name dogs after people from his movies, brought his English mastiff Rebel to the TCL Chinese Theatre event, where its paw print was immortalised.
Bay and Rebel placed their prints into a setting slab of concrete on Wednesday (local time), with the poor pooch needing some strong physical encouragement to partake.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Bay said he came close tearing up at seeing his dog place its paw in the concrete.
"I kept thinking, 'Oh my God. I don't know if I can handle this. This is so cool'," he said, before explaining that the animal was named after actress Rebel Wilson, who had a prominent role in his 2013 film Pain and Gain.
Bay's two other pups, Bumblebee and Nitro Zeus, have also featured in Transformers films - but for the fifth film, the starring dog role went to an epileptic Staffordshire bull terrier called Freya, who was last year labelled the world's loneliest dog.
Bay's giving Freya a role came after he read about her in the news, and decided to give her publicity to help a home. Freya has since been adopted.
Kiwis will be able to see Freya on the big screen when Transformers: The Last Knight is released on June 22, 2017.
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