So, people have recently been re-examining Megan Fox's career with 2020 vision — from a resurfaced clip where Megan talks about appearing in a Michael Bay movie in a bikini under a waterfall at age 15 to audience laughs, to analysis of the marketing misfire and hyper criticism of Megan's starring role in Jennifer's Body.
Well, Megan herself just got super candid about the scrutiny and the post–Michael Bay backlash she faced in the '00s in an interview with Refinery29.
"Why did I live for a decade thinking that I was shit at something, when I was actually pretty decent at it?" she began. "That led to this realization that I’d been in a self-imposed prison for so much of my life.”
When asked about the new takes on her career, she continued, "Of course I look back and think — it would have been nice if any of you had seen this at that time that there was a bandwagon of absolute toxicity being spewed at me for years. But, I appreciate the reversal of it."
The conversation also broached the topic of her now-infamous 2009 interview with Wonderland, where she referred to Michael Bay as "Hitler" and "a nightmare to work for."
"The quote in its entirety, it was almost too flippant. Somehow, I would have been villainized in the telling of that story even today," she remarked.
