How did you identify with the character?
What did you like about her and how did you identify, which are not
necessarily the same?
Megan Fox: I liked that there’s something very obviously aggressive
about her. It’s not real. She has really deep, unfriendly insecurities,
which I can relate to, and I like that she’s much less confident than
the needy character, even though she’s supposed to be, to everyone else,
the more beautiful, because I’m also very realistic. I just found her
hilarious also, and I hadn’t done a comedy yet, and it seems like it
would be fun, and because it was a dark comedy. I don’t think I’m a good
candidate to ever be in a romantic comedy because my sense of humor
doesn’t go that way, but it felt like something that I could bring
something to.
Would you say you have a cruel sense of humor as well?
MF: No [laughs], I wouldn’t call it cruel. Inappropriate [laughs] —
not cruel.
Is beauty evil?
MF: Diablo [Cody] said that beauty is power, and power corrupts. I
agree with that completely.
From experience?
MF: I think that, on the other hand, the attention that other people
are telling you that you are beautiful only fills insecurities and makes
it unbearable.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
MF: [Laughs] I see myself. I just don’t necessarily see myself the
way that the media portrays me. I’m a human being. I’m a girl.
What do you feel is the greatest misconception about
you?
MF: There are a lot. I think mainly that I’m very confident, because
I’m not that at all.
What gives you confidence or what makes you insecure?
MF: Everything makes me insecure. I’m never going to get better with
that. I don’t think there’s a solution to that…
There’s always therapy… [Laughs]
MF: Yeah, I’m trying that. I think I’ll only get worse as I get
older. This sounds ridiculous, but I have some genuine relationships
that are really validating for whatever reason — just the fact that I
can maintain them and the fact, as I get older, I have a better ability
to be honest and to be more selfless in a relationship, that makes me
feel better. Because my face is my face, and how I look is how I look,
and I can’t really do anything about that, but I can constantly progress
and grow as a person.
When the paparrazi chase you, how do you feel about that?
MF: It’s horrible, but it’s their job, so I can’t shit on them for
doing their job.
Do you feel virgins are overrated? Because so many
movies…virgins and devils and demons and vampires, and even in reality —
what is it about virgins that fascinate us? When you were a kid, did
you have talks with your mom about virginity and things like that?
MF: I was raised Pentecostal, which is one of the most extreme
denominations of Christianity that exists. In that religion, everything
is evil and wrong and will send you to hell. Everybody was called
sister and brother — everyone in the church — because you’re all
children of god, you’re all god’s sons and daughters. I was talking to
Sister Rhonda about what I had done one weekend — I had decided to go
with my mom to get a haircut — and she looked at me and said, “Oh, your
mom is going to go to hell.” So I had lots of talks about how sex was
evil, sex was bad — sure.
What did you do?
MF: I fought against everything that I was ever taught or told, so I
think that just created more of a monster, for the time being, when I
was a teenager.
When did you get your first boyfriend?
MF: Eighteen. I was legal.
Do you use being sexy sometimes as a weapon?
MF: Yeah, constantly. [Laughs] All the time.
The results are good or bad?
MF: Usually favorable for me. [Laughs]
Jennifer extends her sexual power to a woman. What is
your opinion about it?
MF: I think it was fitting for the character and for the friendship
in the way that it was going. I think it makes sense; and then as far as
people doing it in life, I’m all for whatever people want to do in
their personal lives.
Did you have the chance to have intense female
friendships like that? Because the way you grew up, everything was
considered evil or bad or something? I mean, could you actually be
friends with somebody?
MF: I had one friend my whole life. She was outcast in high school as
well, so we sort of bonded over that and became best friends, and she’s
still my only friend and was really intense for a long time. It’s also
kind of strange how, when you grow up, you grow oddly…not distant, but
you just have separate lives, and that is strange. It’s kind of like a
breakup because I did spend so much of my life with her when I was in
school.
How was high school for you? Were you more of the Needy
character, or more of a Jennifer character?
MF: Neither. I think there are lots of different kinds of kids in
high school. I went to a Christian school, and I was always getting in
trouble with the teachers and with the principals. There’s always
fighting against what they were teaching, and I always had something
smart to say. I just didn’t fit in the cool crowd centered around the
preacher’s daughter, and I was clearly not going to be accepted by that
crowd, so I didn’t have any friends.
What was your favorite subject in school? What did you
like about school?
MF: Nothing, really. I was forced to take a Bible class because I
went to Christian school, and actually that was oddly the most
interesting course I had.
When Jennifer is getting tired, she needs to recharge
and kills the boy. What do you do when you are tired and need to
recharge? Is there anything mentally or physically that you do and then
after that you feel good?
MF: I usually smoke weed and watch Tori and Dean’s Home Sweet
Hollywood. That’s what I do. I don’t have any special [laughs]
routines.
Do you have a favorite part of your body — and I don’t
mean anything dirty by that — but generally, do you have a favorite part
of your body that you really like to see in the mirror?
MF: I have to go with stomach because that’s my only thing that I
don’t have to ever work out. I have like a perpetual six-pack.
Everything else is a lot of work.
What’s your workout?
MF: I’m doing something called Acro Yoga now, because my trainer is
really obsessed with Cirque du Soleil, and if you’ve ever watched it,
they have the most incredible bodies, so it’s a lot of isometric, really
difficult, horrible things that I’m trying out now.
If you want to feel sexy, you just wear short things…?
MF: No, I don’t ever feel sexy in small clothes. I always feel
really insecure.
If you want to go out and you want to feel sexy, what is
the one thing you need to do that will make you feel good?
MF: This is really lame and it sounds like a lie, and a million
people have said it before, but generally, I don’t like wearing makeup.
If I have clean hair and a clean face, I’m more confident because I
don’t feel like I’m speaking behind a mask. I feel like people are
always staring at my makeup when I have it on. It feels fabricated and
false.
So when you go to a premiere or something, do you like
to pick your own outfit?
MF: No, I don’t have taste. I have to pay people to pick out my
clothes for me because I always pick out the wrong thing. I look like
I’m going to the costume party when I dress by myself.
Well, I think you look great at premieres. They do a
great job. Keep paying them. Who is the designer of what you’re
wearing now?
MF: It’s called Male. It’s from Nordstroms. I don’t know. It looks
classy.
What’s your favorite food? Are you into food at all?
MF: I just found out that I’m anemic, and I’m an O blood type, and
apparently I’m supposed to eat a lot of protein so I’ve started eating a
lot of sushi. I’m not a big steak person.
Why are you anemic?
MF: Because I don’t eat enough protein to support my O blood type.
All right. Going back to the horror movies, I know this
is a funny, sexy, horror genre, but are you generally a fan of horror
movies?
MF: I’m so manic in my personal life that I like to have no
experience when I watch a movie. [Laughs] So when I go on a press
tour, every city that we were in, I ordered Ice Age and Madagascar
2 and I watched them every night in every city I went to. I don’t
venture to watch real movies because I’m afraid they’ll make me feel
something, and I can’t handle it.
You shoot these scenes — were they hard for you? I know
it’s fake and make believe, but you were covered in blood and all this…
MF: The physicality of something always helps me with the acting
because it obviously makes it more real, so I enjoy that, but I have
plenty of emotional problems to draw on when I have to do an emotional
scene. [Laughs]
And the blood — did it make you faint or…?
MF: Real blood? Yes, absolutely. But fake blood, no. That’s just
me. I have a distinct pain in my kidneys anytime I see real blood.
In high school times, did you have these evil girls
there? Not demon evil, but…?
MF: Of course girls like to prey on each other, and instantly it
makes you feel bad about yourself.
In religious schools, it’s worse.
MF: Sure. They’re pretty awful.
You mentioned your best girlfriend and yourself were
outcasts. Why?
MF: I don’t know. I just never had a lot of friends. Something
about me was very not-likeable.
Do you remember the popular girls?
MF: Yes, it was the preacher’s daughter. She was on the volleyball
team and she was very athletic…and hated me.
Have you ever met her since?
MF: No.
Are you athletic?
MF: No, I’m not particularly athletic. I was a swimmer. I was going
to go in the Olympics — that was one of my goals. I’m athletic in that
sense, but not in like basketball or football…
