Megan Fox talks about her state of mind during the first years of her career.
The 39-year-old actress, who starred in Jennifer’s Body in 2009, says she was angry and hurtful at the time.
Speaking at a special screening of the film in Los Angeles, Fox opened up about the advice she would give her younger self.
“Oh, I don’t know if I would give myself any advice. I think about where I was at that point in my life, so lost, so full of this rage that I had toward the way I had been treated in the industry,” Fox said, “and how I was dealing with fame and the constant…at that time, before I started filming.”
“I just left a preview for something I had to go to – I have to go – and I remember the paparazzi were so ruthless back then – in the way they talked to women,” she recalls. “And I came out just trying to get to my car, and they’re all shooting. And one guy said to me, ‘Megan, why are you such a bitch?’ And another guy says, “Megan, do you think you’re overrated?” The internet says so and I’m just trying to do my job.
“I was asked to be at this premiere. I’m trying to get to my car. And so I had all this grief and grief, but also this anger and rage that needed a place to go,” Fox continued. “And like I said, just being able to have permission to be disturbed even between takes or maybe the whole time we were there, it was very cathartic for me.”
“I read the script and I think it resonated with me because there’s something about it, whether it was just perceived or not, I felt like I was being persecuted at that point in my career, and I was struggling a lot with fame and I was sort of traumatized by fame,” Fox said.
“And so I resonated with these deeper layers of… you know, before she becomes a monster, she’s just a teenage girl sacrificing herself for someone else’s gain,” the star continued. “And that resonated a lot because that’s kind of how I came in…I came into this industry, I think I was 19 when I made my first big film, and I felt like it reflected these energies that existed inside of me.”
