Transformers<\/em>, has garnered a reputation for being a loose cannon, an over the top interview subject who really speaks her mind. I love that. So often we get canned responses. Here\u2019s someone who\u2019s anything but. <\/p>\nWhen I finally get to the set and Megan, gorgeous of course, wearing a cut-off t-shirt, huge baggy sweatpants, flip-flops, and Ray Bans, drives up with her publicist, it begins to rain. So instead of having some time alone to chat, we are stuck in a trailer with the many people who are involved in producing the shoot (stylists, publicist, photographer, etc.) but we take over one side of the trailer and they stay out of our way.<\/p>\n
Megan, who doesn\u2019t take off her sunglasses for the entire interview, picks up a copy of Interview Magazine. One with a dewy cover photograph of Zac Efron, an individual she likes to make fun of, she says, with some regularity.<\/p>\n
Megan Fox: <\/strong>\u201cHe\u2019s beautiful. He\u2019s the next Elizabeth Taylor. I\u2019m just kidding. I just like to make fun of him. I know Zac. He knows that I make fun of him out of love. Everything I say in interviews I say to his face in person. I try it on him and get his reaction and then I say it publicly.<\/p>\nMarshall Heyman: SO YOU\u2019VE TOLD HIM HE\u2019S THE MALE ELIZABETH TAYLOR?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> I just came up with that, but I\u2019ll tell him that in the future. This picture made me think of it. It was like White Diamonds.<\/em><\/p>\nMegan speaks nasally, like she has a chronic sinus infection. Her statements are often spoken in the form of a question. They tend to lilt upwards. \nMy younger brother, Andrew, is 24 and a major fan of the Transformers<\/em> toys, though not the movie. Though he denies it now, he has often expressed an attraction to Megan Fox. I decided to ask him for some questions to ask Megan. The ones he sent me the night before my interview were especially funny \u2014 more audacious than ones I might normally start with \u2014 and so I went with them. (When I told him this later, he was embarrassed, but I knew, deep down, he was pleased.)<\/p>\nMH: I\u2019M GOING TO START WITH SOME QUESTIONS MY BROTHER HAS FOR YOU. THE FIRST ONE: WHAT ARE YOUR MOST FAVORITE AND LEAST FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT WORKING WITH MICHAEL BAY?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>God, I really wish I could go loose on this one. He\u2019s like Napoleon and he wants to create this insane, infamous mad man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he\u2019s a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he\u2019s not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he\u2019s so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. And it\u2019s endearing to watch him. He\u2019s vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set he\u2019s a tyrant. Shia and I almost die when we make a Transformers<\/em> movie. He has you do some really insane things that insurance would never let you do.<\/p>\nMH: SO IT\u2019S A BIG DIFFERENCE FROM YOUR TELEVISION SERIES HOPE AND FAITH?<\/strong> \nMegan laughs. The first of many big guffaws during our interview. It pleases me to no end that I can make one of the hottest women in the world laugh. Repeatedly. \nMF: <\/strong>It\u2019s a big difference from that.<\/p>\nMH: IS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT HOPE AND FAITH THAT\u2019S THE SAME?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Other than there\u2019s always a tiny blonde around?<\/p>\nMH: HERE\u2019S ANOTHER ONE FROM ANDREW. HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT PRESENTING WITH MICHAEL BAY AT THE MTV MOVIE AWARDS?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> I hate being looked at. And when I\u2019m on stage it\u2019s clear that I\u2019m being stared at by everyone and that\u2019s my worst nightmare. My only goals when I go on stage are to not vomit, trip or have uncontrollable diarrhoea. If I accomplish those three things, I don\u2019t care what else happens.<\/p>\nMH: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A SITUATION WHEN YOU VOMIT, TRIP OR HAVE UNCONTROLLABLE DIARRHEA? <\/strong> \nMF<\/strong> (Laughing): No but I get really paranoid that something horrible is going to happen. <\/p>\nMH: DID MICHAEL BAY COMFORT YOU THIS TIME?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>He\u2019s such a cherub of a man. He was backstage stroking my hair and comforting me. Of course not. He gets nervous too. He doesn\u2019t like being in front of people.<\/p>\nMH: BACK TO A QUESTION FROM ANDREW. WHAT\u2019S THE SEXIEST TRANSFORMER?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Megatron. Cause he\u2019s the leanest and sleekest and he\u2019s bad. And that\u2019s sexy. <\/p>\nMH: IF YOU HAD YOUR OWN TRANSFORMER WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Oh my god. I have no idea. It\u2019s too early to be that creative. I have nothing. I\u2019m dead.<\/p>\nMH: IT\u2019S GOING TO BE A ROUGH HOUR. ANOTHER QUESTION FROM ANDREW. WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT: OPTIMUS PRIME OR MICHAEL BAY?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I would win in a fight with Michael Bay. Because he\u2019s never been in a fight in his life. If Michael Bay ever was in a fight, he would drop to the ground immediately in the fetal position. He would never throw a punch. That man is not a fighter. He\u2019s all hot air. So Optimus Prime would win.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT\u2019S A MORE POWERFUL SECRET WEAPON: THE AUTOBOT MATRIX OF LEADERSHIP OR MICHAEL BAY\u2019S EGO?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Is your brother in, like, film school or something? How does he know about this? If you could combine Michael Bay\u2019s ego with Brett Ratner\u2019s ego, then that\u2019s unstoppable. But if it\u2019s just Bay\u2019s ego than I\u2019m going to go with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership.<\/p>\nMH: HERE\u2019S THE LAST ONE FROM MY BROTHER. DO YOU THINK SHIA IS SEXIER AS MUTT WILLIAMS IN INDIANA JONES<\/em> OR AS SAM WITWICKY IN TRANSFORMERS<\/em>?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Sam Witwicky. Because I like boys that don\u2019t try. Sam\u2019s a little bit neurotic and doesn\u2019t have it all together. I like funny boys. And Shia was too buff when he did Indy. Brian [Austin Green, her on-again, off-again boyfriend] is a lot buffer than Shia. He\u2019s not a wimpy dude. He\u2019s got a naturally badass body. He doesn\u2019t even work out that much. He naturally has that 2 per cent body fat. His body is one of the best I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\nMH: DO YOU WORK OUT?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> I trained a lot as a kid dancing. Mostly ballet so I have a lot of muscle memory. Even when I don\u2019t work out I look relatively in shape. I\u2019m getting older, I know that sounds stupid because I\u2019m 23, but I can feel things changing already. I\u2019m trying to be healthy and have a healthy life and work out twice a week. I\u2019m supposed to make three times but I usually only make twice.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU WORK OUT?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> My trainer\u2019s a fucking Nazi. He does a million squats and lunges and like asymmetric balance shit, which makes me almost throw up every time I do it. And then we finish or start with yoga, which I hate equally as much. And I do it for one hour.<\/p>\nMH: YOU HAVE A SICK BODY FOR SOMEONE WHO WORKS OUT FOR TWO HOURS A WEEK.<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>But it\u2019s like a navy seal work out twice a week. I go until I almost throw up. I\u2019ve gone back home and thrown up from being worked out too hard. It\u2019s not fun.<\/p>\nMH: DO YOU WATCH WHAT YOU EAT?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Recently I\u2019ve started eating a lot better. I went to Hawaii by myself and went on a raw diet and I\u2019m trying to keep up on it here. I have a bad sweet tooth and I eat tons of unbaked things. Dough. Fudge. Brownie mix. Cake mix. To the point where you think you have salmonella. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever had uncontrollable diarrhea but it\u2019s a constant fear. It must mean something in my childhood.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT ARE YOUR OTHER CONSTANT FEARS? \nMF: Flying. I can\u2019t stand to touch newspapers. Anything laminated is fine. Actual dry ass paper I can\u2019t touch. It gives me chillbumps. It\u2019s like nails on a chalkboard. Ughh. Or like tissue paper. People can\u2019t touch me with dry things like that. I get really upset. It\u2019s something about how dry it is that I can\u2019t touch it. Those are my main fears. <\/p>\nMH: DO YOU HAVE ANY REAL FEARS?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>You mean, like dying alone? I do have a fear of ending up like Elizabeth Taylor in the sense that I will have been married 8 times and this senile insane borderline personality schizoid when I\u2019m 80, still drawing on my eyebrows.<\/p>\nMH: DO YOU THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN TO ZAC EFRON?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> No! He\u2019s going to be all right.<\/p>\nMH: YOU DON\u2019T THINK HE\u2019S GOING TO BE DRAWING ON HIS EYEBROWS OR MAKING FRAGRANCES LIKE WHITE DIAMONDS?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Me and Shia came up with a fragrance for Zac Efron. It\u2019s called: It\u2019s So Right it\u2019s Efrong. <\/p>\nMH: WHAT DOES IT SMELL LIKE?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>That\u2019s a very good question. Like midnight and sapphires. Like a musky breeze. <\/p>\nIn Megan\u2019s new teen horror movie, Jennifer’s Body<\/em>, written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, she plays a high school cheerleader who becomes a zombie and starts, quite literally, eating men. <\/p>\nMH: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE CHARACTER YOU PLAY?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I think she\u2019s hilarious. When she\u2019s feeding on a boy, she\u2019s really healthy and beautiful. And when she goes without having a boy or a man she gets hideous and ugly. And I feel like that\u2019s how women think. They think they need men to complete them and to make them feel beautiful, and they\u2019re old hags and useless without a boyfriend or a husband. <\/p>\nI suggest that maybe the film perpetuates the opposite point of view.<\/p>\n
MF: <\/strong>Who fucking really knows what the movie\u2019s about? Diablo\u2019s so twisted but it\u2019s obviously a girl power movie in itself. I think it\u2019s really about how fucked up and scary girls are. Girls are fucking nightmares. <\/p>\nMH: WHY DOESN\u2019T YOUR CHARACTER SEEK REVENGE ON THE ADAM BRODY CHARACTER THAT TURNS HER INTO A ZOMBIE?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>There was a debate. We were going to maybe shoot that at the ending and they wouldn\u2019t let us extend the budget. Look, I didn\u2019t write the movie, I\u2019m not a studio head, I get what you\u2019re saying. I definitely would have wanted to see her destroy Adam Brody but that doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\nMH: DO YOU ASPIRE TO MAKE MOVIES THAT ARE NOT JUST FOR FANBOYS? LIKE THE READER? OR REVOLUTIONARY ROAD? <\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> If I get to the point where I could pull something like that off, then sure I would never turn that down, but I\u2019m not going through scripts looking for the one that will hopefully get me nominated. I\u2019m really not pretentious in my thinking. I\u2019m really more afraid of it now than aggressively pursuing it. Kate Winslet has had a lot of time to go to acting class and be coached and really find the truth in stuff so she can do The Reader or do Revolutionary Road. She didn\u2019t come off of Transformers and make that movie. I think everyone aspires to getting your work recognized critically, but if I can ever get there it\u2019ll take time. I\u2019m not ready to jump into it right now.<\/p>\nMH: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY ELIZABETH BENETT IN PRIDE AND PREJUDICE<\/em>?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I hate watching period pieces. I can\u2019t watch Pride and Prejudice. <\/em><\/p>\nMH: BUT IF THEY DID PRIDE AND PREJUDICE<\/em> AND ZOMBIES?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Fuck yeah that sounds like the best movie ever.<\/p>\nMH: WAS MAKING CONFESSIONS OF A DRAMA QUEEN<\/em> WITH LINDSAY LOHAN MORE EMBARRASSING THAN BEING IN THE MARY KATE AND ASHLEY OLSEN MOVIE HOLIDAY IN THE SUN<\/em>?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> Holiday in the Sun<\/em> is less embarrassing because it went straight to DVD and I was in 9th grade so I didn\u2019t give a shit. I was like fuck yeah, I get to get out of school and go to the Bahamas. They\u2019re not really embarrassing movies. Everybody does them. I don\u2019t have bad dreams about shit that happened in the past. I have bad dreams about things that are coming out all the time. Like right before Transformers<\/em> comes out, I\u2019ll have months of nightmares about things that we spent months filming and know that it\u2019s not going to work in the movie. Moments that we thought would be funny jokes or that are going to be sheer terror and I just know I didn\u2019t sell it at all. It\u2019s a $286 million movie but the money can\u2019t control the acting. There\u2019s no amount of money that can make you a better actor.<\/p>\nMH: WELL, I WONDER: DOES BEING A BETTER ACTOR MATTER IF YOU\u2019RE JUST REALLY HOT?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Yeah, it does matter. Not to Michael Bay because those are literally his directions some times. \u201cBe Hot.\u201d I\u2019ve had that note on set before. \u201cMike,\u201d I\u2019ll say, \u201cWho am I talking to? Where am I supposed to be looking at?\u201d And he responds, \u201cJust be sexy.\u201d I get mad when people talk to me like that. Then again, audiences don\u2019t come to Transformers<\/em> to see us. They\u2019re there to see the devastation and the explosions. I don\u2019t want to shit on the movie, it\u2019s a fun movie. People tend to think that I hate it and I don\u2019t, because clearly none of us should take it seriously. That movie is clearly the reason I\u2019m recognizable at all.<\/p>\nMH: WHEN DID YOU REALIZE YOU WERE HOT?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think that\u2019s something that normal people ever realize. As a female, you struggle with constant insecurities and body image. So there\u2019s never a day you wake up and think, \u201cI really did it today. This is a hot day.\u201d That doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\nMH: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MICHAEL BAY TELLING YOU TO BE HOT? <\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> All of us who are working right now, we all do the same shit, it\u2019s just part of how you sell yourself. Because you\u2019re a product. All of us are. Shia\u2019s a product, a totally different kind. Rob Pattinson is a fucking product. It\u2019s what the industry\u2019s always been. <\/p>\nMH: IS BEING CANDID AND LOOSE PART OF YOUR PRODUCT? <\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> That\u2019s me sort of fighting being a product, that\u2019s me fighting the machine. But of course, now part of my product is being outrageous and outspoken so even when I\u2019m not being that way I\u2019m going to be sold that way. To fight that I could be PR perfect and be one full publicity android and only say the right things. Maybe that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do. It\u2019s a never ending game and this is how people go insane and get addicted to pills. One thing I do hate is being involved in catfights that are not real catfights. One that\u2019s deserved is ok.<\/p>\nMH: CAN YOU IMAGINE A CAGE MATCH BETWEEN YOU AND ZAC EFRON?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Fuck yeah, I\u2019m on board. <\/p>\nMH: WHO WOULD WIN?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Should I ask him? I don\u2019t know if he\u2019ll be awake but I\u2019ll try right now. That\u2019s a really good one. <\/p>\nMegan has two bars of service on her Iphone and texts \u2014 or at least tells me she texts – Efron<\/p>\n
MF:<\/strong> In a dance off, he would kill me. In a cage match, I gotta go with me. I have bigger shoulder muscles. I\u2019m grittier. I wear bigger pants. He\u2019s going to think I\u2019m such a loser. Because it\u2019s 11 in the morning and I\u2019m asking him who would win in a cage match. He\u2019s perfect, he always says the right shit. He\u2019s extremely charismatic. His publicist goes to bed in heaven. She has no worries in her life at all. Whereas my publicist \u2014 look at her \u2014 she has to do a fucking placenta mask every morning to get rid of those dark circles under her eyes. <\/p>\nMH: DO YOU SEND HER PLACENTA MASKS?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>No, but I\u2019m going to start. <\/p>\nMH: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE PEOPLE BEING OBSESSED WITH YOU? ARE YOU ENJOYING IT?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>No, because I don\u2019t enjoy being looked at. But that\u2019s part of being successful, doing magazine covers. It\u2019s very masochistic \u2013 the one thing you\u2019re so afraid of you become addicted to. I\u2019m addicted to being uncomfortable. <\/p>\nMH: YOU HAVE THIS PUSH AND PULL BETWEEN WANTING FAME AND NOT WANTING FAME<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I think most people have that. I can\u2019t imagine someone just waking up and saying, I\u2019m so glad I\u2019m famous. Like I can\u2019t wait to go outside and get photographed today. I\u2019m going to put on my cute scarf and my special vest. I\u2019m sure they do it, but I don\u2019t know anyone who\u2019s like that.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING THINKING?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know what my first thoughts in the morning are. I usually go weigh myself. I\u2019m fascinated by how much your weight can change in a day. It can change like five pounds over night. I\u2019m not afraid of what I weigh, I just find it fascinating that I can weigh 106 one day and the next day 109. All because I ate some saltine crackers. <\/p>\nMH: ARE YOU A BIG READER?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> Yes. I read a lot of real depressing shit. I kind of read everything I can get my hands on. Right now I\u2019m reading Delicate Edible Birds<\/em>. I just finished a book called Love Sick<\/em>. And then I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT MAKES YOU OBSESSED WITH HER?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m so obsessed, I just am, and if I\u2019m going to have her tattooed on my arm, it\u2019s sort of my job to know as much about her as possible.<\/p>\nMH: DOES IT COME FROM ANY ANXIETY ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOU?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Sure. That\u2019s definitely a thing. I could end up like that because I constantly struggle with the idea that I think I\u2019m a borderline personality. Or that I have bouts of mild schizophrenia. I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven\u2019t pinpointed what it is. I feel like I could easily go in that direction and I need to know everything there is to know about it because I feel like it\u2019ll keep it from happening to me. I don\u2019t like to call it an obsession. Anna Nicole Smith had an obsession with Marilyn Monroe. I like to call it a deep-seated interest. <\/p>\nMH: OH, LIKE ME AND BOB FOSSE. WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS? FOR WHERE YOUR CAREER MIGHT TAKE YOU? <\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I feel like I\u2019d be really good at playing someone with a psychosis, a real deep mentally ill person.<\/p>\nMH: WHAT ABOUT OTHER LIFE GOALS? DO YOU WANT TO GET MARRIED? HAVE KIDS? RULE A KINGDOM?<\/strong> \nMF:<\/strong> I would love to create a kingdom. I would love to breed my own \u2013 not superior race \u2013 but I would breed children and I would train them each in a special skill. One would be trained in the art of nunchucks.<\/p>\nMH: KIND OF LIKE KUNG FU PANDA<\/em>?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>Or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/em>. I have to find someone who\u2019s naturally physically agile, a really good athlete.<\/p>\nMH: AND THAT\u2019S NOT BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>I don\u2019t know if he would be down with making our kids train nunchucks from birth to 18. I don\u2019t know if he wants to create an army. <\/p>\nMH: YOU HAVEN\u2019T TALKED ABOUT THAT WITH HIM?<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>No. He thinks I\u2019m a ridiculous person. He doesn\u2019t like talking about this kind of thing. <\/p>\nMH: I FEEL LIKE THIS COULD TURN INTO A MOVIE.<\/strong> \nMF: <\/strong>It could turn into a movie. We\u2019re writing it right now.<\/p>\nMH: WELL I BETTER GET A CO-PRODUCER CREDIT<\/strong><\/p>\nMegan laughs, which suggests I won\u2019t quite get a co-producer credit. Her publicist comes over to break up our fun. \u201cAre you done?\u201d she asks. \u201cYou could go on and on, I know. It\u2019s fun, right?\u201d I return to Megan\u2019s idea for a movie. \u201cI really feel like we’ve cracked on a hundred million dollar idea,\u201d but she\u2019s already on to answering my question seriously.<\/p>\n
MF: <\/strong>I do want to have kids one day. But I don\u2019t want to be an old mom. I\u2019d like to do it before 25. So maybe in 2 years. I always feel like I\u2019ll freak out once I get pregnant. I\u2019m ok with other people\u2019s diarrhea, I just don\u2019t want to have mine publicly. <\/p>\nPhotography: Mariano Vivanco \nFashion: Anthony Unwin \nWords: Marshall Heyman<\/p>\n
A full version of this article first appeared in<\/em> Wonderland #19, Sep\/Oct 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Fox is taking a break from the toys to take the lead in new movie, Jennifer\u2019s Body. Talking to Marshall Heyman, on a rainy set in Malibu, she discusses everything from her on-going teasing of Zac Efron, things that make her skin crawl, and her frustration at being told to just \u201cBe Hot\u201d by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3632],"tags":[90,559,50,218,247,217,246,105],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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