Megan Fox says that she did not manage her "public crucifixion" well in a new interview
The actor says that she had an "internal psychological depression" after having experienced a public examination.
In the 2009 horror / comedy film Jennifer's body ,, Megan Fox Play a high school student who becomes possessed and murdered male students. The film was not very popular at the time, but has since been reassessed through a stronger feminist objective and celebrated as a classic cult. If you know the personal story of Fox, it is probably not surprising to learn that it is His favorite film She has always entered.
The actor is one of the stars of the 2023 coverage Illustrated sports Swimsuit problem, and In an interview with the magazine , she explained how the intrigue of Jennifer's body "Alignment with [his] public crucifixion." She also admitted that she did not think that she manipulated this time in her "good" life and that she had an "internal psychological depression" after having undergone a major reaction. Fox opened its doors to have the feeling that she had a decade in advance on the #MeToo movement when she opened up on ill -treatment in Hollywood, which prompted a large part of the hatred and the mockery she received. Read the rest to learn more about how the 37 -year -old star returns to that time in her life.
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Fox says that it went with a "public crucifixion".
Fox said Illustrated sports Why her role in the horror film focused on adolescents resonated so deeply with her.
"I think Jennifer's body is always my favorite project and will probably always be, because there is just something at the time of that "explained Fox." How it aligned with my public crucifixion that I crossed and my internal psychological depression. What the character went through was a metaphor for what I was going through in Hollywood and with the media and with the world in general. ""
She was criticized for talking about Michael Bay.
In 2007, Fox played in the first Transformers director's film Michael Bay And resumed his character in the first continuation two years later. Around the release of Transformers: Revenge , the actor made allegations on Bay's behavior on the set, including in an interview with Wonderland magazine ( via Weekly entertainment ) It caused a great conversation. "He wants to be like Hitler in his sets, and he is," said Fox. She also said that she was frustrated when she would have ordered her to "be hot" or "be sexy" ( via The Hollywood Reporter ). AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
In an appearance in 2009 on Jimmy Kimmel Live! ,, Fox described working with bay in 2003 Bad Boys II . She looked back heading her character to dance under a cascade in bikini and high heels when the actor was only 15 years old. The public and Kimmel laughed in history, and the host made jokes.
Crew members who had worked under the bay defends it and laughed at the fox in a letter. They called the actor "Dumb-As-A-Rock" and not professional, and nicknamed his "Mme Sourpants". Bay said he hadn't tolerated the letter.
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She was sexualized by the media.
Fox made a lot of headlines around 2009 and not only for his comments on Bay. She also faced a backlash for other things she said in interviews, including during a at the Golden Globes 2009 that she herself said that she regrets. On the red carpet, Fox made dispersed statements to Giuliana Rancic , and she later said that watching the interview led to stop drinking.
All this combined with the public perception of the fox as unintelligent and hyper-sexual led to the "crucifixion" which it has referenced in the Illustrated sports interview.
"My biggest regret is that I helped the media make me a cartoon character," she said Harper bazaar in 2010 ( via HuffPost ). "I do not regret what happened to me, but I regret the way I treated it."
She said she had "heartbreaking experiences" in Hollywood.
In 2020, when the Kimmel The video resurfaced, Fox clarified her feelings about Bay on Instagram and shared that she had lived other "truly painful experiences" in Hollywood. (Fox and Bay have been invented since, and she acted in the Ninja Turtles mutant teenage films, which he produced.)
"Please listen to me when I thank you for your support, but these specific cases have been without consequence in a long and arduous journey during which I have endured truly painful experiences in a tirelessly misogynistic industry," writes fox (wrote ( via the BBC ). "Regarding my direct experiences with Michael, I have never been attacked or ready for what I thought was a sexual way."
She thinks that her experiences could have been received differently at a different time.
"I was ahead of the movement too just in terms of synchronization, because I was getting out and talked about these things perhaps a decade before," said Fox Illustrated sports . "I think that at the time I did not manage it well, because when you believe or know that you are on the right side of the universe and that you know that what you do or what you say is True and true and correct and should be heard, but it is not heard - and beyond not being heard, you are ridiculed for that. "
She added: "I am well now that people are turned upside down and I do not take care of [explanive], because if you are not upset, what is happening is that I am broken, because you took each last piece of me and for what? "
The backlash pushed her to hide.
In an interview in 2022 with Glamor UK , Fox has spoken of the consequences of reveal the fault Before it was widely accepted.
"I was still expressed against some of the abusive, misogynist and patriarchal things that were happening in Hollywood in 2008 and 2009, long before people were ready to kiss or tolerate it," said the actor. "And I became ridiculed for having done so. I think people just had time to review this, retrospectively."
She does not think that she was treated enough at the time, which led her to withdraw from the world. "I was not allowed to be a human, because I was a subject of conversation and gossip and punch," she said. "I was mainly to hide for several years in my life."
