Megan Fox

While promoting Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in June 2009 in South Korea, Fox was asked how she would stop Megatron from demolishing the world. Fox replied, “I’d make a deal with him and instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”

Megan FoxMegan Fox slammed “Transformers” director Michael Bay for focusing more on special effects than acting, but he doesn’t mind. “Well, that’s Megan Fox for you,” Bay told the Wall Street Journal. “She says some very ridiculous things because she’s 23 years old and she still has a lot of growing to do.

“You roll your eyes when you see statements like that and think, ‘Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it,’” he goes on.

Fox told Entertainment Weekly: “I mean, I can’t s— on this movie because it did give me a career and open all these doors for me. But I don’t want to blow smoke up people’s a–. People are well aware that this is not a movie about acting.”

Bay says he “100 percent disagrees” with Fox. “Nick Cage wasn’t a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in ‘Armageddon.’ Shia LaBeouf wasn’t a big movie star before he did ‘Transformers’ — and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from ‘Bad Boys’,” he points out.

Bay thinks Fox could be a little more grateful, though. “Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in Transformers,” he says. “I like to think that I’ve had some luck in building actors’ careers with my films.”

Because I looked older than her, she’d be nice to my face so I would buy her cigarettes. We got away with it every time.
– Megan Fox

I didn’t get along with Lindsay Lohan on Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven’t seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she’s grown and become a different person. I know I have. From what I’ve experienced, women aren’t good friends to one another. When guys want to hang out with you because your personality is badass, women immediately hate you.
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Megan Fox

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody commit to a character the way that he did. He makes really outrageous choices and it’s great when everybody else on the set is making more subdued ones and he goes with it and convinces us that it’s brilliant afterwards.
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Megan Fox

I guess I see a resemblance between us two, but I want to become my own person.
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Megan Fox

I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I’d rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn’t mind.
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Megan Fox

I just had an incredible amount of empathy for her my whole life. I cry when I see her on camera.
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Megan Fox

I really enjoy having sex, and that’s offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven’t met a lot of men who’ve said, “You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!”. That’s because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them.
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Megan Fox

I’m horrible to live with. I don’t clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet. Friends will tell me, “Megan, you totally pinched a loaf in my toilet and didn’t flush.”
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Megan Fox

I’m the biggest nerd – I love comic books and stuff like that! I don’t have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
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Megan Fox

It’s always awkward and it’s never fun. It was hard not to just laugh hysterically and endlessly.
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Megan Fox

Michael Bay’s name, if it’s attached to a script, you know it’s going to be a huge blockbuster released in the summer, with jets flying over at the premiere and all that kind of stuff. So, I knew it was going to be a huge movie.- On working with

Michael Bay
– Megan Fox

People who don’t like me talk about it as though I’m trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it’s 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren’t limited to sailors. It’s a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
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Megan Fox

There are no big love scenes. At this point Shi and I have been dating for two years so we’re at the bickering stage, like an old married couple.
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Megan Fox

Well, that year my boyfriend broke up with me, and I decided that I was in love with this girl that worked at the Body Shop. I decided that I was going to get her to love me back, and I went out of my way to create a relationship with this girl, a stripper named Nikita.
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Megan Fox

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
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Megan Fox

Zac Efron is my obsession, we’re the same person. We’re not actually here, it’s like Janet and

Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it’s me, and you don’t know that. It’s one of the greatest mysteries of all time.
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Megan Fox

In “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” two years have passed since Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the Autobots saved the human race from the invading Decepticons. Now he’s preparing for the biggest challenge of his life: leaving home for college.
Despite his extreme heroics, the battle of Mission City has become an urban legend believed only by conspiracy theorists. Sam is still an average teenager with everyday anxieties and excitement about heading off into adulthood, separating from his parents (Kevin Dunn and Julie White) for the first time, and vowing to be faithful to girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). Of course, he also has to explain his departure to his guardian robot, Bumblebee.

Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf running in a scene from the movie

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress and model.

After having a successful career as a model, Fox launched her acting career in 2001, in which she played a supporting role as Brianna Wallace in Holiday in the Sun, starring opposite Mary Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen. Fox then guest starred in various television series, including What I Like About You, Two and a Half Men, The Help, Ocean Ave. and having a recurring role on Hope and Faith.

In 2004, Fox went on to have a film career starring opposite Lindsay Lohan in Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen. Her other films include Crimes Of Fashion (TV) (2004), How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and Whore (2008). Fox’s breakout role was playing Mikaela Banes, Shia LaBeouf’s character’s love interest in the 2007 blockbuster film Transformers, a role for which Fox was nominated for and won various Teen Choice Awards.[1] She appeared in the sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Her upcoming films include Jennifer’s Body,[2] Jonah Hex, and The Crossing.

Early life

Fox was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee[6] to Darlene Tonachio, former Roane County, Tennessee Tourism Director,[6][7] and Franklin Foxx.[8] Fox’s father dropped an “x” from his surname. Fox has one older sister.[9] Fox’s parents divorced when she was young and she and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather.[10][11][10] Fox said of her mother and her stepfather that they “were really strict” and Fox said of her childhood that “I was grounded for all of my childhood. Not most — all” and Fox said that “I wasn’t doing anything particularly crazy,” and that “I just never appreciated authority figures preaching to me.”[10] Fox is of Irish, French and Native American ancestry.[12] Fox grew up in nearby Rockwood, Tennessee and she began her training in drama and dance at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee.[8] She attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School’s chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At 10-years-old, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Fox continued her training. She attended Morningside Academy, a private Christian school, in Port St. Lucie, during her middle school years and finished her high school education at St. Lucie West Centennial High School, in Port St. Lucie, though when Fox was 17 she tested out of school via correspondence from St. Lucie West Centennial High School.[6][13][14]

Fox said that in middle school, she was bullied and picked on and that she ate lunch in the bathroom to avoid being “pelted with ketchup packets”. Fox said that the problem was not her looks, but that “[she had] always gotten along better with boys,” and that “rubbed some people the wrong way.”[15] Fox also said of high school that “but I was not, ever for a second, popular — I mean, never” and that “everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn’t like me for that. I’ve had only one great girlfriend my whole life.”[16] Fox also said of school that “I just hated school, period. I wasn’t interested and I wasn’t getting anything from it. I’ve never been a big believer in formal education and I always knew what I wanted to do, which was be an actress — the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on that part of it.”[16] Fox said of her living condition as a teenager that “My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself,” and that “I was asking her to leave the entire time. I’d been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.”[10]

Career

Early work

At 16, Fox made her acting debut in the 2001 film Holiday in the Sun, as the spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen). The film was released Direct-to-DVD on November 20, 2001. She made her television debut on the television series Ocean Ave. as Ione Star. The series, however, was quickly canceled after two seasons, from 2002-2003. She also served as an uncredited extra in Bad Boys 2 in 2003.[17] That same year, she guest-starred on What I Like About You, appearing in the episode “Like a Virgin (Kinda).”

In 2004, Fox guest-starred on Two and a Half Men in the episode “Camel Filters and Pheromones”.[18] That same year she made her film debut in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen co-starring opposite Lindsay Lohan. In the film Fox plays a supporting role in the film, Carla Santi, a rival of Lola (Lindsay Lohan). She was then cast on the failed television comedy The Help appearing in only three episodes. The show focused on the hard-lucked life of a beauty school dropout, Fox portrayed the part of Cassandra Ridgeway, a spoiled daughter. She also appeared in the television film Crimes Of Fashion as Candace. The movie premiered on July 25, 2004 on ABC Family. After the cancellation of the television series The Help, Fox joined the cast on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith as a recurring role, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi in the role. In 2006 the television show was canceled due to poor ratings. Fox appeared in 36 episodes from seasons 2 to 3.[19]

2007-Present

Fox at the premiere of Transformers in Sydney, Australia.

In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. Fox played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf’s character Sam Witwicky. Fox was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of “Breakthrough Performance”, and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards, in the category of “Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure”, “Choice Movie: Breakout Female”, and “Choice Movie: Liplock”. Fox has signed on for two more Transformers sequels.[19][20][21]

In June 2007, Fox was cast in a minor role in How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, starring alongside Jeff Bridges, Simon Pegg and Kirsten Dunst. The character Fox portrayed is Sophie Maes, a love interest of Sydney Young (Simon Pegg). The film premiered on October 3, 2008. The film was a box-office failure, only making $17 million worldwide against a $28 million dollar budget.[22]

Megan Fox at Hollywood Life Magazine’s 7th Annual Breakthrough Awards.

In 2008, Fox appeared as the character Lost in Whore. The film centers around a group of young hopeful teenagers who have come to Hollywood in the hopes of an acting career find that the business is harder than they had ever imagined. The film was released October 20, 2008. Fox starred alongside Rumer Willis.[23]

Fox reprised her role as Mikaela Banes in the Transformers sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There was some controversy surrounding Fox’s appearance while filming the sequel of Transformers when Michael Bay, the movie’s director, ordered the actress to gain 10 pounds.[24] During interviews promoting the film in June 2009, Fox was asked how she would stop Megatron from demolishing the world. She replied, “I’d make a deal with him and instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”[25][26][27] This response was panned by the conservative NewsBusters, writing that “While Fox may be a star on the big screen, her words certainly don’t make her shine.”[28] The Naples Daily News was also highly critical of her comments.[29] Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiered on June 8, 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.[30] After its UK release on June 19, 2009, the film was released in regular and IMAX theaters in the United States on June 24.[31]

Fox is set to have her first lead role in a film, playing the title character in Jennifer’s Body. Fox will play Jennifer Check, a mean-girl cheerleader possessed by a demon who begins feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. The film center’s around Jennifer’s possession and Jennifer’s “plain-jane” best friend Needy’s (Amanda Seyfried) attempt to break the curse. The film is set to be released on September 18, 2009. In addition to Seyfried, Fox will star alongside Adam Brody in the Academy Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody’s second feature film.

In April 2009, Fox began working on her next film, Jonah Hex. Fox will portray a supporting character, Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and Jonah Hex’s (Josh Brolin) love interest. The film is set to be released on August 10, 2010. In addition to Brolin, Fox will star alongside Will Arnett.[32]

In early April, 2009, Fox signed on to the lead female role in the upcoming 2011 film The Crossing. The film is still in pre-production and has yet to began production. The plot centers around “a young couple gets caught up in a drug trafficking scheme during their vacation to Mexico.”[4][5]

There were rumours that Megan Fox was being cast as the replacement for actress Angelina Jolie in the third Lara Croft: Tomb Raider franchise movie, but Fox herself has denied that she was taking the role.[33]

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