The actress revealed all on her early days as an actor and the fact that she was over-sexualised.
In 2019, Megan Fox sat down with Jennifer's Body writer Diablo Cody to discuss their experiences in the movie industry, as well as to reminisce about the 2009 comedy-horror film.
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The film has become a cult-classic, with many believing it was ahead of its time, garnering $31.6 million against a $15 million budget.
Fox played the titular character, who becomes possessed after being sacrificed to Satan, and eats boys in her high school.
A true 2000s classic, the film became well-known for all the wrong reasons, according to the writer and actress.
The actress brought up that they were both proud of the film, to which Cody agreed that it had been been marketed in the 'wrong way'. The writer admitted that she is still angry to this day about how it was marketed.
They both also criticised how certain negative reviews came from people that they felt 'didn't actually watch the movie', based on what they wrote.
Jennifer's Body was marketed towards young men, with movie posters, the trailer and more marketing material being over-sexualised, with little emphasis on the story or characters.
It has often been theorised that this is the reason that the film didn't reach its potential, according to Cody.
Fox also revealed that during the film's release, 'something very unfortunate' for her had been going on in the public eye.
Admitting that she had a 'fraught relationship with the public' and struggled with journalists, she explained to Cody: "You must have been taken aback by how sexualised I was and how reduced to, I mean, objectified is like not the right word,
"It doesn't capture what was happening to me at the time," she said.
Fox continued: "It preceded a breaking point for me.
"I had, I think, a genuine psychological breakdown where I just wanted nothing to do, I didn't want to be seen, I didn't want to have to take a photo, I didn't want to have to do a magazine, I didn't want to have to walk the carpet, I
didn't want to have to be seen in public at all."
The 37-year-old said she felt fear of being mocked, spat at, or yelled at in public, or that people would 'stone' her for not looking 'perfect'.
She revealed what she thought people would say about her: "I was too fat, I was too thin, I was stupid, I was offensive, I was a waste of space, I was a bad actress, whatever, all of the things you can think of, I anticipated experiencing."
Writer Cody also said that she is 'still terrified' at speaking out about the subject matter, saying: "People will say well, she was a stripper, we don't really care - does she really have a right to talk about being sexually objectified?"
In the rest of the sit-down chat, they reminisce about their favourite lines in the film, how it was going through the film-making process and even their reactions to its early screenings.
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