Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body - Out in November
Having only three movies under her film career belt, Megan Fox has made a solid name for herself in the industry and poised herself as sultry sex symbol she admits.
She has also caught her fair share of criticism in her budding career, especially after taking a few verbal shots at Michael Bay, her director for the two Transformer movies. With a few comments coming from crew members calling her, “dumb as a rock,” and “thankless, classless, graceless [and] unfriendly.”
She shrugged off criticism when met up with in Toronto where her new horror-comedy film, Jennifer’s Body was getting its world premiere. “I’ve definitely said some things that I shouldn’t say,” she says. “I sometimes forget how things will translate once they are in print. But this is a bullshit industry and I made a decision not to be a bullshit person. I need to hold onto my soul and my integrity and I can’t compromise that.”
Diablo Cody, the screenwriter of Juno, also wrote Jennifer’s Body gave Ms. Fox her first ever starring role; a nude swimming, tongue fire setting, classmate devouring, demon high school cheerleader. Although the movie is horror based, Cody was sure to work in some jest and pop-culture references.
“It was a difficult movie to make because I was under a lot of pressure to do Diablo’s script justice,”says Fox, “so I was nervous about that. I was always questioning myself and trying to bring some real elements to Jennifer. I wanted people to feel empathy for her; I wanted her to be a real person, and not a caricature, like some of the characters I may have played in the past.”
When she was asked about her recent “Sexiest Woman in the World” label Megan just laughs.
“I don’t take any notice of those polls. I take it with a grain of salt. I think that because I was in a movie [Transformers] that made $800 million, they threw me on the top of the list.” But what about her remark to Esquire that “I’m just really confident sexually and I think that sort of oozes out of my pores?”
She sighs. “Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally. In America we’re still very uptight about sexuality: it’s considered scandalous for women to be sexual or speak about sex in a humorous way,” she says. “For some reason it makes people very uncomfortable, possibly because our society is still very tied to archaic biblical principles that we try to force on each other and force on our children. It’s very unfortunate because men are embraced for their sexual prowess and women discouraged from it.
“In Europe, women are celebrated for their sexuality and appreciated for it. There you can still be both sexy and intelligent. Go figure.”
With grounded look on all of this hype, and knowing that some actresses might contest their brains over beauty with such a label and it’s ability to make it quite difficult to be a ’serious actress’, Fox says:
“I didn’t decide I’m going to be an actress because I want to be respected for how I play chess. I don’t think men approach me for intellectual conversation. I’m definitely labeled in the pin-up category and I haven’t given people a reason to take my work seriously yet.”
She is strong tongued despite the masses looking to her as a sex symbol that she has never been photographed topless and she never will be. “When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image. The only thing that is still private and still mine is my actual physical body. It’s literally all I have left that is my own.”
“I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that’s a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever,” she says. “I think I’m a different kind of role model for young girls.” She thinks for a minute and adds with a smile: “But maybe not the kind America is comfortable with.”
Look for Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body this November.
[Source: Telegraph.co.uk]