How Megan Fox's honesty ended her career
She became a star thanks to adopting the role of erotic myth, but stating that she was aware of it and giving her opinion on Michael Bay caused Megan Fox's career to sink.
When she was just two years old, Megan Fox told her mother that she was going to be an actress. At the time she still didn't know what type exactly, but over the years her own body would make that decision for her. Just turned 30, Fox has appeared in The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 dressed as a schoolgirl (and with the camera recreating more on her bare navel than on her face) and has given life to the heroine of a video game, Stormfall: Rise of the Balur, whose uniform is a low-cut cuirass. The actress assures that she embarked on this project for two reasons: the money they offered her and how identified she feels with her character, a sexy and rebellious warrior who fights to make her way in a world of men. The third reason, which Megan Fox does not clarify because it is not necessary, is to give a new bait to her fan base. The only one left: teenage men (physically or mentally). Megan is the ultimate sexual fantasy, the ultimate erotic myth, the ultimate pin-up. The image of her is so deliberately sexualized that she almost looks like a star from another era, and almost from another kind of cinema. Claiming oneself so explicitly as a woman object could seem too sexist and counterproductive for these times. **But what if Megan Fox doesn't want to be anything else?**
At only 17 years old and without finishing high school, Megan fled from her town and from the strict education (no boys, no parties, nothing at all) that her mother and stepfather exerted on her. She didn't leave behind any happy memories: she never had any friends, she ate alone locked in the bathroom so they wouldn't throw ketchup bags at her and she only got along with the boys, most of them with only one interest in mind. Fox's physique made her a fantasy come true for men, almost straight out of a reggaeton song, and a threat to women, who assumed she was going to steal her boyfriend. When she rose to fame in Transformers, cleaning a car using herself as a sponge and scrubbing it like she was going to get a genie out of it, Megan's public image only perpetuated the discrimination she had suffered in high school. Her half-naked body illustrated hundreds of men's magazines that erected her as her new muse, while her face hardly appeared in women's or fashion publications. She was 21 years old, and Megan Fox was already universally regarded as a "cheap" star. And that she had not opened her mouth. But as soon as she did she dug her own grave.
In 2008, Fox confessed in an interview for GQ that she is bisexual. According to her, she discovered it at the age of 18, when she had a relationship with a striptease dancer. Months later, she qualified her statements. "I'm definitely bisexual, but I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date another bisexual girl, because that means she sleeps with men too, and men are so dirty that I would never want to sleep with a woman who is also bisexual." She has slept with men," she explained. In June 2009, the actress confessed that technically that lesbian adventure never happened, and that she regretted telling "inflated" versions of her past to male journalists: "they are boys, it is very easy to play with them; I tell them those stories and they eat from the palm of my hand, but not all of them are true, in fact most of them are lies". Megan gave a new version about her relationship with the stripper. "We were never girlfriends. I really loved her, but the true story is much more bland. It's not a sexy, funny, or fantasy story. But the true story is not the kind of anecdote you tell GQ." That woman was not her girlfriend, but the closest thing Megan has had to a friend of hers in her entire life.
The piñata blew up in his face, and it didn't contain any candy, just mud and angry emoticons. Several media outlets condemned her for trivializing bisexuality to warm up her fans, and an initiative promoted by several male websites decreed the "day without Megan Fox", during which they would not publish anything related to the actress. "We love Megan", clarified the founder of the protest on his website TheBachelorGuy.com, "she is responsible for attracting more eyes to our websites than any other famous, it is enough that she appears in some photos walking down the street with a white T-shirt But the time has come to give another young actress a chance to grab our attention." This boycott made no mention of how hurt Megan's male pride felt after being ridiculed by her idol, but it didn't have to. The dates fit too well. The "day without Megan", in addition to spreading the general impression that the actress was beginning to tire the public, intended to give her a warning so that she would not go overboard or bite the hand that feeds her: ** the Male websites photographed her in panties until she became a myth, and they could just as easily go drooling over someone else's photos.** A couple of years later, Megan once again rubbed salt on the testosterone that kept her career afloat, but in this case he shot the wrong alpha male.
Days before filming began on Transformers 3, the actress compared director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler because, according to her, "he wants to earn a reputation as a megalomaniac, it's a nightmare to work for him." Knowing Bay, what really offended him was the nuance with which Fox concluded his portrayal of him: "When he walks off the set, and he's not in director mode, I really like his personality, because he's so shy. He doesn't have remedy. It has no social tools at all, and it's even endearing." The actress was suddenly fired from the saga, and replaced by a Victoria's Secret model. Exactly the same rabid attitude that the promoters of her boycott had displayed: today it's you, tomorrow it can be any other pair of pretty legs.
As Michael Bay would explain, the idea of firing her was not his, but producer Steven Spielberg's. Fox co-star Shia LaBeouf also had something to say about it, just as you'd expect him to, and he didn't disappoint. "Megan developed a kind of Spice Girl empowerment, which made her uncomfortable working with a director many consider lewd like Michael. He shoots women with the attitude of a raunchy 16-year-old, and I don't think Megan would ever get it." he felt comfortable with this. When Mike asked him for specific poses, there was no time to be delicate, the shoot goes so fast. And Mike has no tact, no time to politely ask him to please arch his back 70 degrees." This means that Bay probably didn't even learn Megan's name during filming, substituting her body parts for it.
Megan Fox's career debacle stems, in large part, from men offended that the actress didn't want to be their kitty. She complains that half of the roles they offer her are as a prostitute, but at the same time she confesses that the dream of her life is to star in a remake of The Explosive Woman, an 80s comedy in which two teenagers created a robot. sexy. "The girl spends the movie running around in her underwear, and they don't know what to do. She's so much fun, I think I'd have a blast doing her." Based on her career, it can be assumed that Megan rejects those other five roles that are not only sexy women. She does the characters that she wants to do, and with the clothes that she wants to wear. Megan Fox's public image is the one she has chosen. In the Judd Appatow comedy If It Were Easy she appeared in a couple of scenes, wearing a pink bra and leopard panties; in the music video for Love The Way Yo Lie by Eminem and Rihanna she played a woman victim of an abusive relationship to which she was hooked; in The New Girl she has exploited her comedic vis, again surrounded by a group of boys with cooked hormones.
If the whole world assumes that she is nothing more than a sex bomb, Megan is going to make it profitable until the end. When she confesses that she has only slept with two men in her entire life (her boyfriend from high school and her current husband, Brian Austin Green), she is accused of being a liar. When she claims that she goes to mass every Sunday, she is branded a hypocrite. If some photographers portray her reading a philosophy book, they laugh at her. When she explains that she would love to drop everything and give lectures on Egyptology, she stirs up rumors of disarray. Recently, the actress has removed the tattoo of Marilyn Monroe that she wore on her forearm. She argues that Monroe was a negative, deranged, bipolar person, a negativity that she doesn't want Megan to attract. This decision sounds like a declaration of intent. Or maybe she just got bored of seeing Marilyn's face every day. ** The truth is that nobody knows who Megan Fox really is, we only know what she has let us see. And that is her greatest triumph.**
Megan already suffered rejection and mistrust during her adolescence for the simple fact of having developed an exuberant physique, so she is not going to allow that, at 30 years of age and with three children, it continues to affect what others think. Her clumsiness during interviews, however, has never led her to criticize other women for what they do, how they dress or how they think. She only bites those who assume that by exploiting her physique she doesn't deserve to be treated with dignity. Megan Fox just behaves like a confident woman, and she uses her body to do what she wants with him. In reality, there are few attitudes more feminist than that.
