Megan Fox, the outspoken “Transformers” star who appeared to flame out in Hollywood after talking out concerning the business’s hypersexualization of ladies, is having a resurgence.
“It’s a little bit like being a phoenix, like being resurrected from the ashes,” Fox advised Instyle. The raven haired actress, 35, talked to the journal about being vindicated in a submit #Metoo Hollywood, the place the script has flipped and ladies are objecting to being objectified.
In a 2009 interview with Wonderland journal, she broke the Tinseltown omerta and bashed “Transformers” director Michael Bay, saying “he needs to be like Hitler on his units” and suggesting that she was upset with the way in which he filmed her lasciviously.
She was dropped from the franchise’s third installment, “Transformers: Darkish of the Moon,” and Bay advised GQ that govt producer Steven Spielberg was behind the directive.
“I used to be introduced out and stoned and murdered at one level,” she mentioned of the previous decade. “After which all of a sudden everyone’s like, ‘Wait a second. We shouldn’t have accomplished that. Let’s deliver her again.’ “
She partially retreated from the Hollywood scene after “Jennifer’s Physique” — a racy 2009 flick that was a comedy horror movie however marketed as a racy thriller. Fox additionally married “90210” star Brian Austin Inexperienced with whom she had three kids.
However she mentioned she had an epiphany whereas in South Africa filming the 2020 flick “Rogue.”
“I took all my crystals, and I arrange my little temple inside my room. I turned on this huge TV, and ‘Jonah Hex’ was on, which acquired panned within the press. It was purported to be horrible.”
She realized the criticism was overblown.
“That night time, I stayed up and promised myself that I might by no means stay yet another day of my life from worry. I got here residence, and my complete life modified. I acquired a divorce and I began working extra and doing extra issues,” mentioned Fox, who can be in a high-profile relationship with rapper Machine Gun Kelly. “Then actually all the things exploded from there,” she mentioned.
Her work in “Jonah Hex” and “Jennifer’s Physique” has additionally been praised on-line by youthful girls on seeing it by means of a extra trendy, feminist lens.
In her subsequent act, she plans to be simply as unapologetic.
“I gained’t lie, I do wish to discover a Marvel or a DC character that I’ve at all times wished to play, and do a type of,” she mentioned, including, “Folks hate on you as an actor for that as a result of it doesn’t get you the large awards. I don’t give a f–ok. Give me an MTV award. I don’t want a fucking BAFTA.”
