Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. After nearly a decade of relative quiet, Megan Fox has reentered the news cycle. At first, it was because she split with her husband of ten years. Then, she was spotted — and starred in a very sexy music video — with actor and musician Machine Gun Kelly, sparking speculation that they are dating.
Fox has discussed her frustrations with this, getting roles in movies designed to show off her looks and sex appeal that don't provide a chance to show off her acting chops. Fox has taken on the role of "hot woman" quite a few times, but even when she manages to break out of the typecasting trap — such as in smaller, nuanced films like the Ed Burns dramedy Friends with Kids — her looks are still what get attention from reviewers.
A Philadelphia Inquirer review said Fox was " a smarter kind of hot " in the film. And while movies are a team effort between writers, directors, producers, studio executives, crew members, and actors, it's the latter who ultimately serve as the face of the project and receive the most criticism.
For example, Fox has been "honored" with six Razzie Awards recognizing her performances in not-great movies Jonah Hex , Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that didn't give her much to work with. Megan Fox's attempts to go a bit darker, weirder, and dramatic haven't quite established her as a serious actor who can do more than head up a blockbuster.
In , she played a supporting role in Above the Shadows , a film so obscure that the above-the-tile star is Olivia Thirlby, best known for playing the best friend in Juno. Its disparate cast also included MMA fighter Tito Ortiz and stand-up comic Jim Gaffigan, and it's about a woman who turns invisible and has to fight to be seen again.
Released to on-demand platforms in the U. A couple of months after the ignominious debut of Above the Shadows , Fox returned to the big screen She starred in the Korean War drama The Battle of Jangsari , which attracted mostly bad reviews — the South China Morning Post called it "disposable" and "one-dimensional. Megan Fox deftly tried to involve herself in a successful Hollywood collective, joining the cast of Zeroville , based on the novel by Steve Erickson and directed by James Franco, who also starred along with regular cronies Danny McBride, and Seth Rogen.
Filming began in on the project, about a film obsessive Franco who gets a job in old-time Hollywood as an editor, whereupon he discovers a secret, earth-shattering film hidden amongst every other movie ever produced. According to the press release, via The Film Stage , Fox portrayed Soledad, the film's "haunted 'dame'" and also its "sexy femme fatale. Another company, myCinema, took it on in , five long years after shooting wrapped.
Megan Fox's most notable project in wasn't a movie or a TV show, but a music video. Artists apparently still make these relics of the late 20th century, and the one Fox is in feels like a throwback, what with its quick cuts, edgy humor, and an conventionally attractive woman in various states of undress. In the clip promoting the pop-punk single "Bloody Valentine" by Machine Gun Kelly for which Fox earns an onscreen acting credit, rare for a music video , she holds the singer hostage, binds his appendages, and tapes up his mouth, then dances around without pants, while hanging out in a sauna, jumping around a bed, and sitting by a tub in lingerie.
It's a bold and steamy video, and one that would indicate that Fox is ready and willing to stay relevant by re-embracing her Maxim -fueled "It Girl" status of yore. Fortunately for Megan Fox, she discovered the value of irony and subversion.
The actress found success in recent years by taking on self-aware, self-deprecating roles in comedies that both tweak and send up her aloof, glamorous image. In Judd Apatow's midlife farce This is 40, she plays a character who works with Leslie's Mann's character, presented as an almost supernaturally attractive young woman who has a side gig as an escort.
Fox also made a cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator, playing a woman the movie's titular General Aldeen has paid to spend time with She may be on to something with this move into comedy. In , she temporarily joined the cast of the Fox sitcom New Girl , filling in for star Zooey Deschanel, who was out on maternity life.
In , celebrities like Chrissy Teigen have garnered mass adoration for being both very beautiful and very publicly sarcastic about the work it takes to be a publicly beautiful woman. Fox has made some objectively bad statements. She challenged both feminine ideals and powerful men in a way that her era did not really know how to process. Challenges are inherently uncomfortable. When we impose likability as the gold standard for female existence, a woman cannot push us or question us or teach us — she can only fail to make us feel comfortable with our own behavior.
She came just a few years too early and missed her shot. Even now, in the church I go to, during Praise and Worship I could feel that I was maybe getting ready to speak in tongues, and I'd have to shut it off because I don't know what that church would do if I started screaming out in tongues in the back.
The actress went on to describe speaking in tongues as "a lot of energy coming through the top of your head. And you just start speaking, but you're not thinking because you have no idea what you're saying. Words are coming out of your mouth, and you can't control it. The idea is that it's a language that only God understands. It's the language that's spoken in heaven.
It's called 'getting the Holy Ghost,'" she said. And I know what you're thinking, 'Then why would I want to go to church and speak in tongues? I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself," she explained. During a appearance on " The Ellen DeGeneres Show ," Fox spoke about her job before she caught her break in the acting world. Once a week, usually on Fridays, someone had to dress up as a fruit, a piece of fruit and go out and stand by the highway," she said.
She had a large image of the late bombshell's face on her forearm before deciding to get it removed. It's like when you visualize something for your future.
I didn't want to visualize something so negative," she told Esquire in Fox added, "She wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay [Lohan]. She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered. I'm not interested in following in those footsteps. During a interview with GQ , she recalled her relationship with a woman named Nikita. 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," she explained.
Fox continued, "I was there all the time—I would go there by myself. I bought her things—perfume, body spray, girlie stuff. I turned into a weird middle-aged married man. I felt like I had this need to save Nikita. I'd get lap dances so I could get to know her, and I'd give her what I thought were great little sound bites of inspiration—like, 'You can do it, you're better than this!
I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl—Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing. And lately I've been obsessed with Jenna Jameson, but. And I really like to draw so I'm obsessed with a lot of the artists that do comic books. It's just a good world. It makes me feel good. I love Comic-Con.
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