14 DAY TRIAL // Megan Fox is back on the big screen, in the Michael Bay-produced “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which will open wide on August 8. She plays April O’Neil, and because the guys playing the Turtles are relative newcomers, she’s pretty much carrying the movie on her own.
Yes, there’s also Will Arnett, but while he’s doing his part to promote it, it’s Megan who’s getting the most covers and interviews. She is, after all, the more popular star of the two.
The other night, at the Hollywood premiere of the film, Entertainment Tonight caught up with the gorgeous former “Transformers” star and asked her how things were going with husband Brian Austin Green.
As the video below can confirm, it looks like he’s not getting too much attention these days. “Brian doesn’t get any intimacy whatsoever,” the busy mom of 2 told the reporter.
She could have been joking, even if a woman as busy as she is could find herself in a situation in which intimacy with her husband would not be at the top of her priorities list.
A hint that we’re not to take everything she says so seriously comes from Megan herself, who tells the New York Daily News in a separate interview that all those comments she made back when she was still in “Transformers,” which brought her the scorn of her industry colleagues and fans alike, were all taken out of context.
“I don’t understand why people don’t have common sense and can’t identify sarcasm or, you know, some kind of self-deprecating humor. But people don’t expect that coming from me, for some reason. There have been so many salacious, ridiculous stories about me in the past,” she says.
“They were all asinine. If you have an insecurity issue or if you seek validation through the opinions of others, this industry is not for you. It will tear you to pieces, and you will not survive,” Megan continues.
A quick reminder: one of Megan’s most outrageous comments was comparing director Michael Bay to Hitler on set and complaining that she worked way too hard for her role in the two installments in the franchise.
In response, staff on “Transformers” wrote her an open letter, reminding her of the many times she was late or unprepared for the shoot, even though all she had to do was follow the instructions and / or say a few lines and look pretty while doing so.
Bay too reacted to her comment, saying that, while she was definitely a beauty to look at, she wasn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. Of course, he didn’t use these exact words.
But Megan didn’t stop here: she also compared actors to “prostitutes,” said she was becoming schizophrenic and was living in fear she might die like Marilyn Monroe, compared herself to a “butch dyke,” and generally lamented that she was so famous and talented that it was scaring her.
More recently, she told fans who dared to criticize “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” to “[expletive] off” because, whether they like the movie or not, they’re still paying to see it, and at the end of the day, that’s all that mattered.
It was all a joke, guys.