Megan Fox touches on her state of mind in the early years of her career.
The 39-year-old actress, who famously starred in Jennifer’s Body in 2009, says she was full of rage and hurt at the time.
Speaking at a special screening of the film in Los Angeles, Fox opened up about the advice she would give to her younger self.
“Oh, I don’t know if I would give myself advice. I think where I was at that point in my life, so lost, so full of rage that I had about how I had been treated in the industry,” Fox said, “and how I was dealing with fame and the constant … at that point before we started filming.”
“I just left a premiere for something where I had to go — I’m bound to go — and I remember the paparazzi were so ruthless back then — the way they would talk to women,” she recalled. “And I went out just to try to get to my car and they’re all shooting. And one guy said, ‘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 sadness and grief and also anger and rage that needed a place to go,” Fox continued. “And like I said, just being able to have the permission to let loose even in between takes or maybe the whole time we were there, that was very cathartic for me.”
“I read the script and I think it just resonated with me because there’s something about it, whether it’s just perceived or not, I felt like I had been persecuted at that point in my career and I was struggling a lot with fame and was kind of traumatized by fame,” Fox said.
“And so I resonated with the deeper layers of … you know, before she becomes a monster, she’s just a teenage girl being sacrificed for someone else’s gain,” the star continued. “And it resonated a lot because that’s how I got… I got into this business, I think I was 19, when I made my first big movie, and it felt like it reflected these energies that existed inside of myself.”
