 I was in my office and I was in this house and at that point I was in a different house and I was writing papers for grad school and my phone rings and this lady's on the other end of the line and she says hey Michael Bay's looking for a former seal and you know help out on this movie are you available tomorrow and I was just like sure Michael Bay yeah I'll do it and then she told me to send her some pictures not yeah I didn't have head shots I just had regular pictures so I sent them to her and she was like hey you're you're on and then next day I'm one set with Michael Bay and Josh Duhamel and I'm shooting a scene for Transformers last night and it was just supposed to be that one day and then I got a phone call about a week and a half later from that same lady and she said hey Bay you know like said you could take direction and your look on set and all are you available to come back for three more weeks and I said sure so I you know I did a week in Arizona two weeks in Michigan and then at the end of the second week a PA approached me and said Bay wants to know if you'd like to stay on until the film wraps and I said sure and so I ended up staying on the film until the wrap and you know did some consulting on it and acting on it and it yeah that's where I would say my career started you know in the film the TV industry and it definitely wasn't what I was trying to do I didn't know what I was going to do um and I ended up still finishing my master's degree during that process but but that's where I found I guess my my next calling since acting in Transformers Remy has starred in many commercials worked on TV shows as an actor and advisor and acted in another upcoming Michael Bay movie he also found he had a gift for writing and after completing his autobiography he decided to try his hand at writing something different after that I was just like man I love writing I just I just love storytelling and not just from the acting side but being able to to to be at the at the inception of the story and that's writing and so I uh you know I was just like you know what I can write another book or I could write a film so I wrote a film so I wrote my first film which is a spy thriller and and that got a lot of buzz and then I wrote another film um a historical black film um which we're shopping right now should hopefully get picked up in the next month or so um and and that just started building so I now I write films I consult on films and TV shows and commercials and I and I do act um but I um I would label myself more writer than anything at this point Remy credits much of his success in the entertainment industry to the hard lessons he learned from his time in the Navy yeah serving serving was huge for me I mean it changed my life um and and being a part of the Navy you know and and the SEAL teams as well you know it's a huge part of my life and it's something that um no one could ever take away from me you know having been able to wear the uniform and and go overseas and and you know and protect those who couldn't protect themselves you know that will always be with me and uh although I can't do the job anymore physically because I'm older now and I have so many injuries but I'm grateful I'm grateful for the opportunity I had that the Navy gave me you know you know I grew up as a man in the Navy when you really think about it because I I joined when I was you know turning 20 years old and so the majority of my adult life has been the Navy and the military so the Navy pretty much raised me despite his successes Remy said he hasn't forgotten where he came from and the struggles he faced and does what he can to give back and try to help other at-risk kids from poor communities like the Bronx yeah yeah you know I try to I try to at least at a minimum minimum once a month um do some type of outreach um to inner city even if it's just once a month even if it's just spending an hour for a kid who doesn't have a dad you know it's our duty to do something because we're still serving even though I don't wear the uniform um it's I still see it my duty to serve and you know I specifically choose inner city youth because that's where I came from and I understand the struggles that kids in the inner city go through you know being a single parent homes you know not having a lot financially maybe not knowing where their next meal is gonna come I could connect and relate to them because I come from that same environment and so that's why I choose to to serve and I'm probably doing that for the rest of my life you know with with everything that throughout what he calls an unexpected life remy said the most important lesson he learned was the value of hard work if you do the work you will be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve that's one thing that the navy taught me you know because again I showed up to the navy unable to swim skinny and and uh academically disqualified to be a seal I did the hard work the navy showed but you know the war to me for doing the hard work I was able to go to seal training become a seal so that's one thing hard work pays off sometimes it may seem like it won't but it does