Megan Fox Tackles Objectification, Being Sexualized At A Young Age By Hollywood 'Mercilessly Misogynist'
The actress speaks after a 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel went viral where she talks about being sexualized in a Michael Bay movie at age 15 and Kimmel responds with a rude joke.
Megan Fox has found herself in the middle of a viral storm after an interview with Jimmy Kimmel from her self-titled show resurfaced Monday in which she talks about being sexualized at age 15 by director Michael Bay.
Kimmel's response, which was to make a rude joke, has led to calls to the comedian and late-night host being canceled, even after he recently made the announcement that he intends to take the rest of the summer off.
The ABC star was already under fire from social media for another resurgent clip of him performing on blackface, with many calls for him to apologize or at least acknowledge the part amid ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. He has not.
2009 clip where megan fox tells a story about michael bay sexualizing her when she was 15
the crowd laughs and kimmel makes rude jokes
Additionally, on Monday, the audio allegedly of Kimmel doing a 1996 Snoop Dogg impression and using the n-word multiple times also reappeared, as reported by the New York Post, leading many to wonder how he remains. Host of the upcoming Emmys after Kevin Hart didn't host the Oscars following his tweets a decade ago.
The clip of Kimmel with Fox led to a reexamination of the tumultuous early years of her Hollywood career by fans, who began to feel that the actress deserved all the apologies as she was constantly over-sexual from a young age and underrated. so much. for her ability to act.
In an extensive response shared on her Instagram page, Fox acknowledged and shared her appreciation for all the support she received, and the path of all the women who have endured similar treatment at the hands of a 'ruthlessly misogynistic' Hollywood machine, but he wanted to make sure everything was rooted in the truth.
She waiting for her permission to upload the Instagram media.
As such, she sought to clear up some of the misconceptions and misunderstandings about her history and her relationships with some of the powerful figures she has worked under, including Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay.
In particular, she was quick to clarify that the aforementioned story about being sexualized at age 15 had nothing to do with her work on 'Transformers', for which she was 19 or older throughout the entire process, but rather for a cameo as extra. in 'Bad Boys II'.
The actress said the same thing in the Kimmel clip, but it was clear that not everyone who jumped in to defend and support her had seen the whole thing. In that clip, she said that she appeared on set in a stars and stripes bikini, cowboy hat, and six-inch heels.
'[Bay] approved of it, and they said, you know,' Michael, she's 15, so you can't sit her down at the bar and she can't have a drink in hand, '' Fox recalled. That problem was making me dance under a waterfall getting soaked. ''
"At 15 she was in the tenth grade," she continued. "So that's a microcosm of how Bay's mind works."
'Well that's really a microcosm of how all of our minds work,' Kimmel joked at the time when Fox looked visibly uncomfortable. "Some of us have the decency to suppress those thoughts and pretend they don't exist."
A Twitter user began spreading the false narrative that Fox was forced at age 15 to wash Bay's car in a bikini to get her 'Transformers' job, which is a big part of why Fox felt the need to. try to clear up and properly address the outrage. Combining multiple experiences to make things look worse than they were doesn't help anyone.
'I did' work '(pretending to know how to hold a wrench) on one of Michael's Ferraris during one of the audition scenes,' she wrote. `` It was in the parking lot of the Platinum Dunes studio, there were several other team members and employees present and at no point did I get naked or anything like that. ''
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`` In regards to this particular audition story, I was not a minor at the time and I was not forced to 'wash' or work on someone's cars in a way that was foreign to the actual script material. '' he continued. "I hope that any opinion that is formed around these episodes is at least sown in the facts of the facts."
She even came out in defense of Bay and Spielberg, 'adding:' As far as my direct experiences with Michael, and Steven actually, I was never assaulted or prey to what I felt was a sexual form.
She said the experiences with these men who are now resurgent were "inconsequential on a long and arduous journey along which I have endured some really harrowing experiences in a ruthlessly misogynistic industry."
She did not address other resurfaced moments from her experience on 'Transformers,' a franchise she was fired from and described in an open letter on Bay's website (purportedly from the film crew) as' trailer trash, 'a' pornstar 'and' dumb as rocks'.
She also didn't talk about being fired from the franchise after comparing working for Bay to working for Hitler, and Bay said it was at Spielberg's insistence and the latter denied it. She also didn't address her subsequent humiliation of her when images of her nearly naked were leaked from the 'Jennifer's Body' production set.
The actress suggested that there are certainly names in Hollywood that deserve to be canceled throughout her career, but that "they are kept safely in the fragments of my heart."
'May we all keep waking up,' she captioned her post.
She waiting for her permission to upload the Instagram media.
Bay reposted Fox's message on her own Instagram page, along with a photo of her audition to prove that she was not in a bikini.
Megan Fox wrote this today. This is a photo of her from the Audition recording of her 13 years ago, '' she wrote.
'No. She is not washing a car or in a bikini as the press has falsely said for many years, '' she continued. And personally I think Megan is fantastic. I'm proud to have worked with her and still plan to work with her. '
