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 work.
From the moment they saw her in midget jean shorts and on a motorcycle in an uncomfortable position, the world’s testosterone-heavy men fell in love with her. Yes, Megan fox he aroused passions with his image and few with his 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 overcome. What has become of Fox? Why did Hollywood turn its back on him before he was even 30 years old?
As we said, it was ‘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 several 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 into 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 Y Kirsten Dunstor ‘Puta (Whore)’ from Thomas Decker, no one was unaware that his career was taking off very slowly, and he was making very poor quality films. 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 she compared him to Napoleon and even with Adolf Hitler. As you can imagine, neither Bay nor the producer liked her very much, steven spielberg, who advised him to fire her witheringly. And so she did. Fox was replaced in the film by Rosie Huntington-WhiteleyVictoria’s Secret model. It didn’t matter to Bay, really: she just wanted a stunning woman that her male audience could freely drool over. And LaBeouf, famous for not holding his tongue, did not hesitate to confirm it:
“Megan developed this Spice Girl, empowered woman strength that made her uncomfortable with Michael’s movies. [Bay], of which many think that his way of filming women is very lewd. Mike shoots them to appeal to the sexuality of a 16 year old, it’s his style. And I think she was never comfortable with that. This is a girl who has been brought out of complete obscurity and put in a very sexualized role in front of the entire planet, and who was told that she was the sexiest woman in America. And she had a hard time accepting it. When Mike asked him to do specific things, there was no time to speak nicely.”
After that dismissal, 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) from karyn kusama -which we shouldn’t forget, since it is a feminist horror gem in which she vindicates herself as a misunderstood sexual object-, ‘Jonah Hex’ (2010) with Josh Brolin and ‘Passion Play’ (2010) together with Mickey Rourke Y 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 he wanted to start a saga of ‘The ninja turtles’, which after two deliveries ended up proving unsuccessful. The last attempt to come back from him has been with the series ‘The New Girl’, in which he replaced Zooey Deschanel and where she tried to get her most comical vein, although she was still obviously sexualized by all the male characters around her. Is it that no one can forget her beauty for a moment?
Whether she’s a troubled actress, an unintentionally sexualized young woman, or a loud mouth, it’s clear that Megan Fox eventually disappeared from the Hollywood front rank. In these last years has admitted that he suffers from schizophreniaand has been a mother three times with her husband, Brian AustinGreen. There is nothing. It has pending premiere the new James Franco -as director and actor-, ‘Zeroville’ (2019), another ongoing project with the filmmaker claudia myers‘Shadow Girl’, and even a movie where a boy connects telepathically with his dog…
At the moment, he is doing well with another lesser-known facet of his life: his obsession with ancient cultures. In December 2018, Fox premiered the documentary series ‘Legends of the lost’, where we follow her through different parts of the world to learn 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 his name returned to all the world’s headlines in April this year for his unrecognizable appearance in one of his new projects, South Korean’s ‘Jangsa-ri 9.15’ Kwak Kyung-taek, decked out in a short, blonde hairstyle to play New York Herald Tribune journalist Marguerite Higgins, 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?
At the moment we can say that, although not as an actress, Megan Fox is more alive than ever as a celebrity in 2021 and 2022 thanks to her relationship with the musician Machine Gun Kelly. Her striking relationship and their extravagant appearances on every red carpet she steps on have once again placed the actress in the headlines every week, even if it is not for reasons related to the cinema.
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
