Shortly after The O.C. ended its run on Fox, Adam Brody ventured back into the films. And this time, he encounters Megan Fox, an actress ready to tackle a lead position after starring (and doing most of her stunts) in Michael Bay’s Transformers.
And so, each actors conform to paintings on Jennifer’s Body (Fox portrayed the titular personality), a film that got here with prime expectations since it was written via Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winner in the back of Juno. Unfortunately, it fell flat. And now, several years later, some are nonetheless wondering what has transform of the relationship between Brody and Fox.
Adam Brody Knows There’s More To Megan Fox Than Transformers
After working with Fox on Jennifer’s Body, Brody knew that Fox had extra vary than any individual almost definitely idea at the moment. “She seems great on this film. She’s now not all Michael Bay’d out,” Brody explained while talking with HuffPost. “She’s in reality beautiful, with much less make-up and smaller hair. She’s in point of fact handsome in this film and it’s the most inclined you’ve seen her up to now.”
At the same time, the actor also spoke of Fox’s “in-your-face personality” and how he’s come to appreciate it. “She’s very a lot a take it or go away it girl,” Brody remarked. “She comes full of attitude however I’ll take a character like that over something safe and vanilla.”
They Were Together When ‘Hitler-Gate’ Happened
As many would recall, Fox got into a large number of hassle after giving some nasty remarks about Bay (she compared him to Napoleon and Hitler) all over an interview. Soon after the interview was once published, it didn’t take lengthy for the backlash to start out. And as it turns out, Fox was once with Brody when the state of affairs unraveled.
“We landed in New York. I used to be doing the VMAs with Adam I think, and my publicist and agent come into the room and have been like, ‘So there’s an issue. We’ve gotten like 600 telephone calls from Steven Spielberg,’” Fox recalled whilst speaking at Beyond Fest with Vulture. “If you don’t have in mind, this was once something we referred to as Hitler-gate.”
Years later, Fox claimed that her controversy may have ended in the failure of Jennifer’s Body. “A lot of it was just about my image at the time and who I used to be in the media at the time and the backlash to that,” the actress said on Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut podcast. “The movie by no means really stood a chance.” If you ask Brody despite the fact that, Fox is admittedly not to blame for the failed efficiency in their horror film.
He Believes Megan Fox Was ‘Crucified’ By Hollywood
It’s been over a decade since the movie got here out and Brody nonetheless strongly believes that Jennifer’s Body had all the important parts of a good film. “I assumed, you recognize, you might have a movie starring two ladies about misogyny and female friendship and directed via a woman, written by a girl, who received the Oscar for screenwriting that yr,” the actor defined all over an interview with AV Club. “Megan Fox is in her maximum human and sympathetic role to date at the moment.”
In his view, Hollywood simply didn’t promote it properly, insisting that “they only buried all of that.” Moreover, Brody believes that they have been flawed to market the film “just for the dudes.” "'This is about Megan Fox being hot and that’s all you need to know. Oh, and there’s a lesbian kiss.' I think guys were disappointed,” he explained. “I remember seeing it for the first time before the ads came out and thought that, honestly, the thing I was most struck by was how much I liked the look of it, like the palette, and then I saw the poster. I was like, ‘This isn’t even in the movie! It’s not remotely in the movie. This looks like Goosebumps!Sexy Goosebumps!’”
Brody also believed that the treatment of Fox at that time was not right. “I think Megan Fox, in general, has been a little bit of a… I don’t know what you’d call it, I don’t know if martyr is exactly the right word,” the actor remarked. “But she certainly was a little crucified.” Fortunately, Hollywood is starting to see Fox in a whole new light and that is something that Brody is supportive of. “I think she’s having some of the same reappraisal that Britney Spears is having right now,” the actor explained. “Everyone really ripped into a young woman surrounded by toxic men that skated off scot-free. I think it’s like so wonderful and exciting, what’s happening with the culture right now.”
At the same time, Brody is also glad that there is more appreciation for Jennifer’s Body. “It’s overdue, and it would’ve helped back then,” he remarked. “At least it’s getting some of its due now.” Meanwhile, Fox herself has expressed interest in turning Jennifer’s Body into a series. If that were to happen, a reunion between these former co-stars is certainly possible.
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