Jennifer’s body may have debuted more than 10 years ago, but Megan Fox still resonates with her character Jennifer Check — a high school cheerleader turned demon slayer — in certain ways.
“I feel like it’s such a good representation of who I am in general,” the actress and author, 37, said WWD in a new interview published Wednesday.
Fox continued, “Even before she was turned into a demon and became this gothic icon, [Jennifer] she was this poppy, typical cheerleader, Forever 21 girl. She was that typical girl who then had her other side where she became some kind of demon sorceress. And I am both, and always have been.”
As a teenager, Nice guys are toxic The author also had her collection of clothes from Hot Topic and “slutty clothes from Forever 21,” according to WWDwhich is another reason why she got attached to the role.
Megan Fox attends the 2023 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Party on May 19, 2023.
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While the 2009 film, written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, remains close to her heart, Fox once admitted that it “never had a chance” to become a box office hit.
In the last interview on Eli Roth’s Horror History: Uncut podcast, said the cult classic didn’t get enough recognition when it debuted because people were too focused on ″tarnishing″ her sex symbol status, which was established with her breakout role in transformers.
″A lot of it was just about my image at the time, and who I was in the media at the time, and the reaction to that. The movie never really had a chance,” she explained. ″I was being bullied a little while the movie was getting ready to be released. It was an interesting juxtaposition of reaching extreme heights of fame right before the movie was released, and then … it started to tear me down. ”
“Then I immediately fell out with someone who worked in the industry. It happened just as I was on a press tour for Jennifer’s body. I think everything just exploded at once,” added Fox. “I think people definitely saw me as negative or ill-intentioned or just shallow and selfish, if you boiled it down and simplified it even to that.”
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Megan Fox as Jennifer Check in “Jennifer’s Body”. Photo: Doane Gregory © 20th Century Fox
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In his last conversation with WWDFox also touched on how coming out in the public eye — with the hyper-bomb attached to her name — has affected her view of fashion.
“I had a strange relationship with fashion because for so long I refused to be famous and refused whatever that image was that was somehow related to me, that person I was supposed to be. And so for a long time I ran away from fashion and lived only in sweatpants or workout clothes and never wanted to express myself,” she said.
Megan Fox says she used to ‘run away from fashion’ because she ‘rejected’ fame and her hyperbomb image
At this point in his life, Fox unapologetically rediscovers all sides of his personal style.
“I’m learning to use fashion in a way that reflects who I am now. But I didn’t use it for a long time because I was really struggling with that existential question, ‘okay, who am I?'” she told the outlet.
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