Nicola Peltz has big pumps to fill.
This Friday, she’s going where Megan Fox and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley have gone before, into the career-making role of “Transformers” eye candy. Sharing the screen with 20-foot-tall Autobots sounds intimidating enough. But then there’s being on set with director Michael Bay, who Fox once compared to both Napoleon and Hitler.
Peltz says she had no fear.
“The yelling doesn’t frighten me,” she tells The Post. “Michael is a genius at what he does. He gives 110 percent. He honestly just expects the same, as he should.”
As for working with Wahlberg, who plays Peltz’s dad in “Transformers: Age of Extinction” — the actress has known him for a long time, “through a mutual friend.” As you might guess, the 19-year-old comes from a, shall we say, privileged background.
Raised in Westchester, which she still calls home, she is the daughter of billionaire Nelson Peltz. In 2009, Gawker wrote of the family’s 130-acre estate, which the site said had a waterfall, an indoor hockey rink and a flock of albino peacocks.
The actress landed her first big role in 2010’s “The Last Airbender,” followed by playing a suicidal teen on A&E’s “Bates Motel.” July 11, she’ll star in “Affluenza,” a film about rich kids behaving badly. It’s an intriguing choice, given Peltz’s upbringing. Gawker also claimed that the Peltzs’ hired help felt tormented, particularly by “the couple’s daughter, an aspiring actress . . . for whom heaping abuse on the maids, nannies and butlers has become something of a sport.”
Asked if she fears people will draw comparisons, she responds, “All the characters I play have nothing to do with anything besides me falling in love with scripts.”
Still, like her character, she had to have had it pretty good growing up. Did she want for anything?
“I don’t know what you mean,” she says.
Did she feel different from other kids?
Touchy subject. Without responding, she passes the phone to her publicist, who cuts the interview short and hangs up.