october-2010

There was only one problem. The foxy
21-year-old refused to play nice when
doing interviews to promote the fi lm, and
her quotes quickly became the stuff of
legend. “Hollywood is the most superfi cial
thing you could possibly be a part of,”
she told one publication, “and if I weren’t
attractive I wouldn’t be working at all.”
When asked by another journalist to assess
her performance in Transformers, she
replied: “I’m terrible in it. It’s my fi rst real
movie, and it’s not honest and not realistic.”
While some may be taken aback by
her forthright nature, Fox wouldn’t have
it any other way. “I don’t like small talk
and I don’t like having to be a cookie
cutter,” she confesses. “That’s a quality I
started to develop as a kid. You know how
everybody goes into cliques, and talks
behind everyone’s back? I thought it was so
ignorant. So I just started being completely
honest with everybody all of the time. It
gets me into trouble often, but I think it’s a
good quality to have.”
Recent interviews have found
her becoming a bit more diplomatic
“Transformers’ commercial success
has opened a lot of doors for me,” she
confesses. “For me to have that is a huge
blessing, and I don’t want to complain
about it. But at the same time it’s a scary
line you have to walk. I’ve been pegged as
a pin-up and haven’t really been given a
chance to be much more than that.”
It merits mention that Fox’s sudden
success has never led her down the path
to self-destruction. She’s never been
arrested, been caught drunk in some trendy
nightclub or been in trouble for anything
other than the crazy stuff that occasionally
spews forth from her mouth. Her solid track
record in the public eye shows how well
practised she is in the fi ne art of being a
star, even if she hasn’t exactly earned her
stripes as an actress just yet.
“Getting photographed at Whole
Foods or coming out of Rite Aid with
your shampoo bottles is new to me,” she
“Hollywood is the most superfi cial thing you
could possibly be part of”
Clockwise from the top:
Serious, scared, defi ant,
and sexy: the many faces of
Megan Fox in her fi lms
Spotlight | Vision
acknowledges, “but you acclimatise pretty
quickly. You have to make a choice to
just refuse to be involved with things that
could get you in trouble. It’s easy when
you feel upset about something to want
to go to a club and drink, but instead I
just force myself to feel it and deal with
it, because I don’t want to go down
that path. I would be throwing away my
career.”
At this point, it remains a career
waiting to be defi ned, but it is already
off in the right direction, starting with
Jonah Hex, a comic-book adaptation
starring heavyweight thespians Michael
Fassbender, John Malkovich and Josh
Brolin. “I only worked on Jonah Hex for a
few days, but trying to stay alive in a scene
opposite Josh Brolin almost killed me!”
she admits. “I’ve never put so much effort
into something, because he’s a brilliant
actor and I don’t have the skills to keep up.
But I tried really hard, and things like that
are ultimately going to force me to grow
in a positive direction. I just want to keep
seeking more amazing opportunities like
that.”
Fox will soon be appearing opposite
Bill Murray and Mickey Rourke in her
fi rst serious indie drama, Passion Play,
which recently debuted at the Toronto
Film Festival. Also on the cards is her own
production, an adaptation of the comic
book Fathom, in which she will also star.
“My goal is to still be working in
Hollywood in 10 years, and if I don’t break
out of that box I won’t be able to have the
kind of career that I’m hoping for. There’s
a lot of responsibility on me to get my act
together.” And from the looks of it she is
going about it the right way.
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