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Megan Fox WOMAN OF THE YEAR
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MEGAN FOX
INTERVIEW BY BEN TRIVETT & MAGGIE COUGHLAN PHOTOS BY MATTHEW ROLSTON
You’ve voted. You’ve chosen. There she is. The woman from our prayers reveals how she keeps her beauty, work, lifestyle, tattoos, sex life. All you want to know about the hottest woman of this year.
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egan Fox is hiding. Not from us — we’re sitting next to her — but from a paparazzo we just spotted crawling around outside the house, trying to get his Megan money shot. So even though it’s a beautiful day, we’ve drawn the shades, and Megan, wearing a tee shirt, baggy white linen pants, and black toenail polish, has pulled her knees up to her chest, as if to protect herself. “I don’t like being seen,” she says, sighing as she motions toward the door. “I want to be invisible.” When a movie star says something like that, you want to roll your eyes. When Megan Fox says it, you want to roll your eyes so far back in your head, they practically fall down your throat. For starters, she wanted to become a Hollywood actress, which is one of the most seen, least invisible professions in the universe. Plus, Megan is gorgeous. No, we mean gorgeous. Anyone who’s seen her on camera knows that, but in person, it’s a whole other level. She is so mind-bendingly stunning that, sitting there with her, we temporarily forget why we even bother with men. But as we begin to bust Megan on the ridiculousness of her statement, she interrupts us with a laugh. “Right?” she says, knowing exactly what we are about to say. “It’s sick and twisted. Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown. But I just have to go balls to the wall and embrace it.” Since tabloids dutifully report every aspect of her life, it’s easy to forget that Megan hasn’t actually been in very many movies. When she was 14, she landed 2|
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a part in the direct-to-video Olsen twins vehicle Holiday in the Sun, and a few years later, she and her mom moved from Port St. Lucie, Florida, to Los Angeles so she could better pursue an acting career. After that, she played Lindsay Lohan’s nemesis in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and a vapid actress in the little-seen comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. But it was with the Transformers movies — in which she portrayed an absurdly hot grease monkey — that the Megan Fox phenomenon was born.
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till, the stars of those two films were the CGI robots. Jennifer’s Body, however, put Megan front and center. In it, she plays a high-school bombshell who, after being possessed by a demon, begins to kill and eat dudes in her town. It’s a big test for the 23year-old, who’ll have to prove that, armed with Diablo Cody–penned dialogue, she can also really act. Jason Reitman, the director of Juno and producer of Jennifer’s Body, wasn’t so sure. “I didn’t know what to expect,” he admits of working with Megan. “When someone is that beautiful, you go in questioning whether she’s going to have the goods...but she has the goods. She’s capable of great things.” wLow voice, self-confident, costumes absolutely normal day-to-day, hidden behind glasses frame thick and with her hair tied back. If the girl who entered the room where the interviews were being conducted to Transformers had not been announced as Megan Fox, that brunette beauty who plays the character Main movie robots from Hasbro, I do not suspicious. In fact, we may even pass through
THE CHOSEN
She was chosen by our readers, woman of the year. The young actress has won us all with her aggressive but stunning beauty
ARMANI GIRL
Megan is the face of new Emporio Armani Underwear’s campaign. She’s beside of Real Madrid’s footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo
it right in the street. Nah. Let’s not exaggerate ... even without the Hollywood glamor, the beautiful actress continues. Better also revealed that writes and draws stories comics. Yes, beautiful and nerdy. Check now the conversation Megan Fox: As you entered the project? You had the same fear queensize had so many people that would be a fool for film children? I do not give a damn. I was in a TV program was canceled and
ater, drama classes or anything. There was only a choir and I ended up joining it, just to get used to the stage, although my voice be terrible. I danced a bit as well as a child and adored, entered competitions and such ... then moved to California at age 15. I persuaded my mother to go me and I was lucky, soon after I got a paper a little movie of Lindsay Lohan, Confessions of a Teenage Drama. Then I started to earn some money. more important than work.
“I don’t like being seen,” she says, sighing as she motions toward the door. “I want to be invisible” I was unemployed. Hence the idea of making a movie with Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg was just too good to be ignored. In no moment I had no fear about the film not be something “special.” It is an honor to work with these people. Was anyone in show business in his family? There was some influence next? I’m from the U.S. South, from Tennessee, not California. My family is from the art world. Although I’ve heard rumors around about me being a relative of Willie Nelson. Ahahaha. No, the only other person who hás artistic talent in my family is my sister, Who singing, but she insisted, had no patience ... You came out then, to pursue his dream. Here in my town there’s the-
What surprised you the most in Bay and Spielberg? Steven was only on set once and I was horrified. He STEVEN SPIELBERG is and was my first movie Transformers as the protagonist. It was scary. Michael has already I never saw anyone working. He knows to do work of any of the set. He is a workaholic and a perfectionist, totally dedicated to work. It is very respectable. It seems inspiring to see it work. You felt this way? Yes, because his priorities are totally different mine. I prioritize my family. He sacrifices himself the progress of industry and entertainment. This is inspiring and admirable - but not enough to make me change my priorities. There is always something I think everyone feels that way,
there are many most important things in the world than his work. The secret is not to be distracted. After all, being in a job as these guarantees you a lot of things, like improving the lives his family. With the money got Transformers buy a car for my mother. That’s what work after all. When you started your career? I had three years and first saw the Wizard of Oz and I became obsessed with film many years. I had the Dorothy’s clothes which we did ourselves because were very poor - and made everyone call me by her name. That lasted a whole year. In the end, I recalling me Megan, but decided it would be a actress and that was today. Almost changed my mind at 13 years, when I invented to be a lawyer, but then I realized that Law did not like, but I was seeing Ally McBeal too. Ahahahahahaha. And how was the test of Transformers? The whole process lasted a long time ... I was hoping a connection at any time, because they called me nine times for tests - and nobody calls you many times so if there is some interest. Meanwhile was also hoping to break my contract with the series TV (Hope & Faith). I think it would be very disappointed if he could not, after all, I invested much time into it. But when I finally got the call I was stunned. It was sensational. Can you talk a little about your tattoos? I have eight in the whole body. I have many words, excerpts from literature. It’s a dash of personality to have tattoos. | SEPTEMBER, 2010 | BLACK TIE |
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