Megan Fox

2010-04-18T13:45:46Z

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'''Megan Fox''' (*[[May 16]], 1986) is (was?<ref name="megantoysuicide">Megan Fox is on record as promising to "literally commit suicide" if an action figure of her were ever made. ''[[Skids (ROTF)#Human_Alliance|Human Alliance Skids]] with [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] and [[Mikaela Banes]] action figure'' [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62248 has been found in stores on September 3, 2009.]</ref>) an American actress. She is best known as the second actress to play Sydney Shanowski in the sitcom ''Hope & Faith'' and as Carla in ''Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen''. A self-described comic book geek (be still our hearts), she collects books such as ''Witchblade'' and the more obscure ''Fathom'' and ''Gen<sup>13</sup>.''<ref>[http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/15253.html ICv2 - Transformers' Megan Fox Reveals Favorite Comics]</ref>
She takes umbrage with her character in [[Transformers (2007)|''Transformers'']] for not wearing a seatbelt.

{{quote|I told them that I would literally commit suicide if they made an [[Mikaela Banes#Toys|action figure of me.]] I will kill myself.|2=Megan Fox, [http://enewsi.com/news.php?itemid=13816 reported by Entertainment News International].}}
{{quote|I'm terrible in [Transformers]. It's my first real movie and it's not honest and not realistic. The movie wasn't bad, I just wasn't proud about what I did.|Megan Fox on [[Transformers (2007)|Transformers]]|[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246950_20263258_20284375,00.html "Megan Fox: 'Fallen' Angel"] on EW.com}}
{{quote|I’d barter with [Megatron] and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super Bible-beating people in Middle America?|Megan Fox in [http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/06/10/will-megan-foxs-rant-affect-transformers-sequel/ Total Film UK interview].}}

==Live-action roles==
===''Transformers'' (2007)===
* [[Mikaela Banes]]

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
* Mikaela Banes

F**K THAT

==Voice roles==
===[[Transformers The Game]]===
* Mikaela Banes

===[[Revenge of the Fallen (video games)|Revenge of the Fallen The Game]]===
* Mikaela Banes

==Trivia==
* During the publicity in the lead up to the release of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' and articles thereafter, there has been a war of words between Fox and ''Transformers'' director [[Michael Bay]]. Fox has commented negatively on the ''Transformers'' sequel, claiming that it was "not a movie about acting" and she spends most of the time "running or screaming, or both"<ref name="foxew">[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20246950_20263258_20284375,00.html Entertainment Weekly interview with Megan Fox June 10, 2009]</ref>; furthermore, that she "still didn't know what was happening" in the film despite appearing in it and having read the script, and anyone who understood the movie had to be a "genius"<ref name="meganearly">[http://www.movieline.com/2009/06/megan-fox-bites-the-migraine-inducing-nonsensical-mess-that-feeds-her.php Appearance by Megan Fox on ''The Early Show'', June 30, 2009, reported by Movieline.]</ref>. Bay, in return, condescendingly remarked that Fox "says some very ridiculous things" and "still has a lot of growing to do".<ref name="baywsj">[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904574249803555118212.html Wall Street Journal interview with Michael Bay, June 25, 2009.]</ref> Following the release of the movie, Fox stated in a ''Wonderland'' magazine interview that Bay had a Hitler-like dictator persona on set, and off the set was very socially awkward in an otherwise warm review of the man.<ref name="bayhitler">[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/09/megan-fox-on-michael-bay-he-wants-to-be-hitler.html LA Times blog comments on Fox's claims September 2, 2009]</ref> Evidently having not read the entire interview, three members of "Bay's crew" anonymously responded in an open letter praising Bay and derogatorily citing the difficulty in working with Fox.<ref name="baycrew">Open letter by the ''Transformers'' set crew on Michael Bay.com on September 11, 2009. Removed from Bay's site, [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-movie-discussion/266237-crews-response-foxs-comments.html mirrored at TFW2005]</ref> The letter was quickly removed and Michael Bay himself soon responded, saying he doesn't condone either the letter or Fox's outlandish comments, but noted her "crazy quips" was part of her "crazy charm", and since they had a good relationship, he expects further outrageous comments from Fox in the lead up to the third ''Transformers'' installment.<ref>[http://www.michaelbay.com/newsblog/files/05784bc07a65715ec26b433b001fade7-564.html Michael Bay, responding to the crew letter on his website September 12, 2009]</ref> This was soon followed by a (this time signed) open letter by ''another'' crew member who described Fox in a much more positive light, and put much of the original letter's criticism into context.<ref name="letter 2">[http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/09/15/megan-fox-michael-bay/ ''Entertainment Weekly'''s Holloywood Insider reporting on the open letter by production assistant Anthony Steinhart], September 2009.</ref> During her acceptance speech at the 2009 Scream Awards, Fox explicitly objected "a lot of false reports" about how she feels about ''Revenge'', and stated that she always was an "ordinary part of an extraordinary film".<ref name="foxscream">[http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/10/20/2009-10-20_megan_fox_changes_her_tune_on_transformers_im_completely_grateful_to_everyone.html One of many reports of Megan Fox's acceptance speech at the 2009 Scream Awards], October 2009.</ref>

* In 2008, she was voted the '''number one''' sexiest woman in the [[Earth|world]] by ''FHM Magazine''.<ref name="fhmsexiest2008">[http://www.fhm.com/girls/covergirls/megan-fox Megan Fox at ''FHM Magazine'']</ref> In 2009, she only made the second place, beaten by [[Wikipedia:Cheryl Cole|Cheryl Cole]].<ref name="fhmsexiest2009">[http://www.fhm.com/100-sexiest-2009/megan-fox/ Megan Fox ranks second place in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women 2009 contest]</ref>

* In the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' game, Mikaela only appears briefly in the game itself, with only a page's worth of dialogue. Despite her small part in the game, Fox was nominated for the "Best Performance by a Human Female" award in the 2009 Spike TV Video Game Awards. In reality, the nomination was not based on voice work, but merely to have some stars in attendance. After all, it is the nerds - er, video game channel.

*It has been suggested that the persona Megan Fox hints at in interviews is a construct, and the ''real'' Megan Fox is mostly boring. She keeps a low public profile, doesn't attend parties, has never been in a scandal and has been dating the same guy for five years, without so much as a ''rumor'' of an affair. So essentially, all her interviews are conscious attempts at creating a fake media persona that is a lot more interesting than the real person Megan Fox.<ref name="mfnyt">[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/magazine/15Fox-t.html "The Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox"], New York Times article from November 2009.</ref> <small>Sorry, guys.</small>

==Footnotes==
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==External links==
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1083271/ Megan Fox at the Internet Movie Database]
* [http://www.kronomy.com/guest.php?uid=RyK0VNdqMt&beta_key=Xg0v3G4nX 3D Timeline of Megan Fox] at Kronomy
* [http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=189&itemid=13816 Source of the above quote]

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