It has to be said, Megan Fox deserved better as Megan Fox opens up to Diablo Cody on life after Jennifer’s Body.
Seeing Megan Fox speak candidly and be so well-rounded on life after Jennifer’s Body is refreshing. For Fox, it wasn’t always the case since outspoken women in Hollywood get blacklisted.
Firstly, let’s go back to 2009. Fox garnered a reputation as outrageously outspoken, a “loose cannon,” yet male critics would write mostly about her appearance. For instance, the LA Times‘ It-Girl bombshell narrative. “there’s no such thing as bad publicity – especially if you’re a loose cannon sex symbol like Megan Fox.” Ten years later, we found this to be extremely untrue.
During a promo tour for a specific summer 2009 blockbuster film franchise, Fox spoke to Wonderland Magazine‘s Marshall Heyman about working with its director.
Fox, who’s intelligently self-assured, answered “God, I wish I could go loose on this one. He’s like Napoleon, and he wants to create this insane, infamous madman reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is.”
As a result of her sincerity, her words were weaponized and used against her to ridicule her publicly. Sadly to her professional detriment, she lost out on future work for being ahead of the #MeToo-era, even though Bay has a reputation of being challenging onset.
Fox was derided simply for speaking out.
Fast forward to the present day; Entertainment Tonight interviewed both Jennifer’s Body writer Diablo Cody and star Megan Fox to celebrate the movie’s tenth anniversary.
While discussing the film, Fox opened up about an intensely difficult period following the movie. Experiencing a “genuine psychological breakdown” resulted from being consistently objectified and hyper-sexualized in her roles.
The particularly ill-conceived marketing campaign didn’t help even at the protest of Cody to market towards women; Fox Atomic Studios didn’t oblige.
The aftermath took a toll on her mental health, and Fox found herself retreating, “it wasn’t just that movie, it was every day of my life, all the time, with every project I worked on and every producer I worked with, it preceded a breaking point for me.”
Celebrity culture feasts on tabloid fixtures; 2009 was no different.
However, considering all the wild stories everywhere, Fox herself had no wrongdoing; her only sin was being guilty of being beautiful while honest and was publicly crucified for it.
