14 DAY TRIAL // “Jennifer’s Body,” the horror comedy penned by Oscar-winning scribe Diablo Cody and starring the stunning Megan Fox, is readying for a nationwide release on September 18. In the meantime, promotion for it is still going strong, with Fox doing a Behind the Scenes issue with MTV, in which she talks about what prompted her to think of acting, what shooting for “Jennifer’s Body” was like and, most importantly, how it felt to be kissing co-star Amanda Seyfried for one of the most mediated scenes of the flick.
It’s no longer unknown that one of the things that pushes “Jennifer’s Body” is Fox’s presence in it and the movie studio is, of course, pulling all the stops on promoting it with her help. Another big seller for the film is a much-hyped scene in which Fox’s character, a cheerleader possessed by a demon, kisses her best friend, a dork who rolls with the unpopulars and who sets her eyes on stopping the demon from killing other boys in their high school.
For Seyfried, having to shoot that particular scene was nothing short of embarrassing and a sort of compromise she agreed to make. Things were different with Fox, as she says so herself for MTV. “I feel much safer with girls, so I felt more comfortable kissing her [Seyfried] in the movie than kissing any of the other people that I had to kiss. I think she was extremely uncomfortable. I don’t think that – I know that. She was not comfortable and there was a lot of laughing – like, giggling fits that happened in between takes.” Fox says for MTV.
As also noted above, if Megan was OK with the scene, Amanda was far from it, yet she agreed to do it because she knew it would play an important part in promoting the horror flick. “We knew that it was going to play a really big role in publicizing the movie. We kind of rolled our eyes at the idea of having to make out.” Amanda was saying just recently, admitting she had agreed to it rather willy-nilly.
“Jennifer’s Body,” though, featuring Fox as a boys-killing demon, is billed as a horror comedy in the vein of classic horror films that never made the mistake of taking themselves too seriously, as movie critics put it. This is also one of the reasons why it’s generating so much hype, aside from the fact that Megan Fox is the lead.