Megan Fox famous anymore? WHAT HAPPENED TO… MEGAN FOX?
She was one of the most sought-after actresses a few years ago, even a modern erotic myth, but we soon lost track of her. What has become of this young actress?
Ever since they saw her in midget jean shorts and on a motorcycle in an uncomfortable position, the testosterone-heavy men of the world fell in love with her. Yes, Megan Fox raised passions with her image and few with her work in front of the screen. A celebrity who had her moment of glory and who disappeared leaving a trail of failures behind her, which she is still trying to trace. What has become of Fox? Why did Hollywood turn its back on her before she was even 30 years old?
As we said, she was in 'Transformers' (2007), in the role of Mikaela Banes (AKA "hot girl who likes motorcycles"), where her fame skyrocketed. But that was not her first role in front of a camera. In its beginnings, it appeared in various music videos, series (such as 'Two and a half men' or 'Hope & Faith') and even had a fairly important role in the movie 'I want to be super famous' (2004), starring another actress who also fell at a young age in the hells of the industry, Lindsay Lohan.
It was in that wonderful 2007 when the doors of fame opened for Fox. The two years that followed were successful, but also strange. The actress was officially crowned one of the sexiest 'celebrities' on the planet, and a participant in a saga that amassed millions of dollars at the box office. After appearing in films like 'New York for Beginners' alongside Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst, or Thomas Dekker's 'Puta (Whore)', no one was unaware that her career was taking off very slowly, and she was making very low quality. Although let's be frank: no one ever highlighted her great talent as an actress. Quite the contrary, from the beginning of her career in the cinema she focused her career on being the woman object, and each pose, each interpretation, each interview, seemed to show that she herself was in agreement with -or at least accepted - that image. Although that is something that only she knows, something that we can only judge from the sidelines and that, as we will see now, perhaps they have been misunderstood.
The year 2009 was the turning point for the actress. After the success of the first installment, director Michael Bay premiered the second part of the 'Transformers' saga, which once again had the presence of Shia LaBeouf and Fox, and was already preparing for the shooting of the third. Days before starting that third project, the actress did not cut a hair when talking about her director: she assured that it was "a nightmare to work with him" and compared him to Napoleon and even Adolf Hitler. As you can imagine, he did not like it much or Bay or the producer, Steven Spielberg, who advised him to fire her with a bang. Which he did. Fox was replaced in the film by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a Victoria's Secret model. Actually, Bay didn't care. : he just wanted a stunning woman that his male audience could freely drool over, and LaBeouf, famous for not holding his tongue, did not hesitate to confirm:
"Megan developed this strength of Spice Girl, of an empowered woman, which made her uncomfortable with Michael [Bay]'s movies, which many think his way of filming women is very lewd. Mike films them to appeal to sexuality. of a 16-year-old, it's her style. And I think she was never comfortable with that. This is a girl who has been brought out of complete darkness and put in a very sexualized role in front of the whole planet, already The one who told her she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it. When Mike asked her to do specific things, there was no time to speak nicely."
After that dismissal of her, nothing was the same again. Her fame as a complicated actress spread throughout the industry, and her peers began to demonize her. She starred in 'Jennifer's Body' (2009) by Karyn Kusama -which we shouldn't forget, as it is a feminist horror gem in which she claims to be a misunderstood sexual object-, 'Jonah Hex' (2010) with Josh Brolin and 'Passion Play' (2010) with Mickey Rourke and Bill Murray. All of them an absolute failure at the box office. And there is nothing worse than losing your hook with the fans and also having a bad reputation. Losing combination, without a doubt. After those films she wanted to start a saga of 'The ninja turtles', which after two deliveries ended up proving unsuccessful. The last attempt to come back from her has been with the series 'The New Girl', in which she replaced Zooey Deschanel and where she tried to get the most comical vein out of her, although she was still obviously sexualized by all the male characters that surrounded her. Is it that no one can forget about her for a moment about her beauty?
Whether she's a troubled actress, an unintentionally sexualized young woman, or a loudmouth, it's clear that Megan Fox eventually disappeared from Hollywood's forefront. In recent years she has recognized that she suffers from schizophrenia, and has been a mother three times with her husband, Brian Austin Green. There is nothing. She has yet to premiere the new film by James Franco -as director and actor-, 'Zeroville' (2019), another project in progress with the filmmaker Claudia Myers, 'Shadow Girl', and even a film where a child connects telepathically with her dog...
For now, she's not doing badly with another, lesser-known facet of her life: her obsession with ancient cultures. In December 2018, Fox premiered the documentary series 'Legends of the lost', where we follow her through different places in the world to find out a little more about our past. It is not a series, let's say, of posturing, but an investigation in which the actress intends to revisit some historical passages, learn about places like Stonehenge, search for the history of the lost civilizations of America and even vindicate the women who fought in the Trojan war.
Perhaps her name returned to all the world's headlines in April this year for her unrecognizable appearance in one of her new projects, South Korean Kwak Kyung-taek's 'Jangsa-ri 9.15', wearing a short blonde hairstyle to play the journalist Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune, but Megan Fox has been up to a lot since Michael Bay decided to make her a sex icon. The question, in the end, is: will Fox rise from her own ashes to prove her worth as her actress?
