Megan Fox, the hypersexualized actress who has returned to Hollywood after a few years of professional debacle
Michael Bay called the actress complicated and she compared him to Hitler. The controversy sank her career, but a decade later she accumulates projects in film and television while she enjoys love with rapper Machine Gun Kelly.
At just 35 years old, turned May 16, Megan Fox has experienced just about everything in the entertainment industry. Being a teenager of hers, her classmates made fun of her because she said that she wanted to be an actress, but she soon got it and with only 15 years she participated in a film by the Olsen twins. Since then, her spectacular physique has opened the door to series such as Two and a Half Men or the Transformers film franchise, but she denounced that she was simply used as props. After a notorious dispute with Michael Bay, she was fired and labeled a difficult actress. But almost a decade later, she's back to work, she's the happy mother of three and she's dating singer Machine Gun Kelly after divorcing actor Brian Austin Green.
Raised in a very strict home, Megan Fox says that as a child her mother and her stepfather did not allow her to have boyfriends or bring friends home. So she soon decided that she would live in her maternal home until she had enough money to support herself.
At only five years old, she began attending dance and singing classes, doing some modeling work at 13. As noted above, at age 15 Fox entered the entertainment industry with the film Adventure in the Bahamas. And she at 17 she moved to Los Angeles.
Hypersexualized since she was in front of a camera, she Fox has spoken on many occasions about Hollywood machismo and how they treated her, all this before #MeToo. As she explained on a 2009 Jimmy Kimmel Live !, she was cast in the movie Two Rebel Cops 2 (2003) as extras in a nightclub scene. The problem is that the young woman had just turned 15, so to avoid placing a minor in a bar or drinking, Michael Bay, producer of the film, decided that Fox, who was only wearing a bikini with the United States flag, high heels and a cowboy hat, dance under a waterfall while getting soaked. "This is how Bay's mind works," added the actress.
After her, Transformers 1 and 2 (2007, 2009) would arrive where, according to Fox, one of the tests of her casting consisted of pretending that she was repairing a director's Ferrari. And when she asked Bay about the motivations of her character, he simply replied that she was sexy. When the first film was made, she was 20 years old.
In the media, Bay did not praise Fox's work either and assured on numerous occasions that she was an "insufferable" and "complicated" actress. Shortly before starting the filming of the third installment of Transformers, the interpreter responded by comparing him to Hitler. "Bay wants to act like Hitler on set. He wants to earn a reputation as a megalomaniac, he's a nightmare working for him. [But] when he leaves the set and he's not in director mode I really like his personality because he's so shy. No It has a remedy. It has no social tools at all and it is even endearing. "
Fox was immediately fired. Bay said that by order of the film's producer, Steven Spielberg, although he denied it. The fact is that they soon replaced Fox with another explosive woman: the Victoria's Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
The films' co-star, Shia LaBeouf, agreed with Fox saying, "Megan developed a kind of Spice Girl strength, a female empowerment that made her uncomfortable working with a director many consider lewd. Michael shoots women. with the attitude of a dated 16 year old and I think Megan never felt comfortable with that. When Mike asked her for specific positions, there was no time to be delicate, the shoot goes very fast. And Mike has no tact, no I had time to politely ask you to please arch your back 70 degrees. "
The Hollywood industry and the media sentenced the actress and her career sank. And personally, her professional debacle coincided with her wedding to actor Brian Austin Green (47) and her motherhood. The couple met in 2004 on a set of the comedy Hope & Faith when she was 18 and he was 30. In 2010 they married and had three children: Noah Shannon (2012), Bodhi Ransom (2014) and Journey River Green ( 2016).
The labor drought ended when Fox returned to work for Bay in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 (2014, 2016). She claimed that she was doing it because of the salary she was offered. But the truth is that, after her reconciliation, the actress has not stopped working: the series New Girl (2016-2017), the docuseries Hidden Legends with Megan Fox (2018) and more than half a dozen films. Among those that she has pending release are Midnight in the Switchgrass, a thriller where she and Bruce Willis will play two FBI agents in search of a serial killer; Aurora, a space drama in which she will play an astronaut; the horror movie Till Death and the comedy Big Gold Brick.
To top it off in 2020 Fox definitively divorced Brian Austin Green, as they had already separated a couple of times: once before getting married, in 2009, when they broke off their engagement, and the other in 2015. Shortly after starring in the music video for her song Bloody Valentine, the actress made public her relationship with rapper Machine Gun Kelly (31).
