Remember that time when Megan Fox compared Transformers director, Michael Bay, to Hitler? Understandably, her comment made headlines and she was soon fired from the franchise under the command of Steven Spielberg. Fox was promptly replaced with Victoria’s Secret model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley to play Shia LaBeouf’s new and more nurturing love interest.
Unfortunately for Fox, after this unfortunate episode in her life her career never recovered. She has been cast in one bad film after another. No truly successful franchise has been willing to take her on, probably because no director wants to have to deal with the demanding actress.
Furthermore, it seems like Fox is growing increasingly uninterested in the film industry and is currently more focused on her family than anything else. Recently, in a Cosmopolitan interview, the actress revealed that she is planning to quit acting for good because she knows she has another calling in her life.
10. Passion Play Was Also Terrible And Only Got 3% On Rotten Tomatoes
After starring in two terrible films – Jennifer’s Body and Jonah Hex – Fox was unlucky enough to end up cast in another awful film, Passion Play. The film was extremely poorly received at the Toronto Film Festival – viewers mocked it as they watched it and then walked out of the screening. This led to the usual theatrical distribution being sidestepped. Instead, the film went straight to DVD.
Mickey Rourke also starred in the film and said that it was “terrible”. He was, however, full of praise for Megan Fox, saying that she was “probably the best young actress I’ve ever worked with” and that “at 23, I couldn’t do half of what she’s doing.” But in a later interview with Vulture, Rourke smirked when asked about his praise for Fox, clearly indicating that he had lied.
9. She Was Boycotted By A Number Of Men’s Websites Such As AskMen
After Megan Fox was fired from Transformers and took on terrible films, it seemed like she was everywhere – news portals, late night talk shows, magazines. She became so overexposed that some men’s websites decided to boycott her and dedicated a special day called “A Day Without Megan Fox.”
Fox said that her overexposure was created by Transformers – “I was part of a movie that [the studio] wanted to make sure would make $700 million, so they oversaturated the media with their stars.”
Fox also confessed that she doesn’t want to be on the internet and in magazines every single day – “I don’t want to have people get completely sick of me before I’ve ever even done something legitimate.”
8. To This Day, People Talk About Fox Being Fired From Transformers Instead Of Her New Projects
Unfortunately for Megan Fox, when Megan Fox was fired from Transformers, the news spread like wildfire. Everyone was talking about the event and the fact that she had compared the Transformers director, Michael Bay, to Hitler.
Fox thought that the world would eventually gloss over the juicy news. Perhaps she believed she’d be cast in another big franchise or that she’d get an award for acting.
But of course that never happened and almost every film that Fox has appeared in so far has been a failure. So it’s no surprise that people talk about Fox being fired from Transformers to this day. And it’s unlikely that they’ll stop anytime soon.
7. Her Marriage Almost Failed
Nowadays Megan Fox talks about her family being her priority. As we all know, her family comprises of her husband Brian Austin Green and their three children. But a few years ago Fox’s marriage almost failed.
Apparently, Fox and Green had been arguing over her career and the fact that she is always away making movie after movie. Back then, a source close to the couple revealed – “They fight about her career. She was obsessed with getting roles.”
Thankfully, Fox and Green eventually got back together. Fox explained their decision to give it another go – “If you want it to last, you just have to stick it out. I know my karma isn’t done. And so we’re in it until the universe releases us. We’re not completely in control of it. And he is a hunk.”
6. She Was Typecast
Unfortunately for Megan Fox, the film industry has typecast her as a pretty face. This means that Fox, just like Marilyn Monroe and other beautiful actresses before her, is rarely taken seriously when it comes to going for real, dramatic roles with a little bit of substance in them.
And Fox herself knows that she has been typecast – “You have these stereotypes that still dominate films: the nag, the trophy, the escort… I haven’t been sent a nag script yet, but I do get plenty of, like, ‘interesting stripper.’ Or, ‘She’s super funny, but she’s also an escort, but that’s what makes it funny!’”
5. Her Comic Book Movie Project Stalled
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