Throughout her time in the spotlight, Megan Fox has never been afraid to call out the influence of Sєxism and misogyny on her career.
The Transformers actress, 34, raised eyebrows with fiery comments about her experience working with director Michael Bay on the first two installments of the action films. I’ve had that note on set before,” she told Wonderland magazine at the time. “I’ll say, ‘
More than a decade later, footage of Fox detailing a particularly uncomfortable audition for Bay resurfaced on social media. During a 2009 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress remembered being asked to put on a ʙικιɴι and high heels to dance under a waterfall in 2003’s Bad Boys At 15, I was in 10th grade,” she said at the time. “That’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works.
I greatly appreciate the outpouring of support, I do feel I need to clarify some of the details as they have been lost in the retelling of the events and cast a sinister shadow that doesn’t really, in my opinion, belong she wrote in a lengthy Instagram statement on Monday, June 22, before going into detail about her time working with Bay and her previous claims. “When it comes to my direct experiences with Michael, and Steven [Spielberg] for that matter, I was never or preyed upon in what I felt was a Sєxual manner.
Scroll down to relive more of Fox’s most critical comments about the way Hollywood treats its female stars.
Since getting her big break as a teenager, Fox has embraced her Sєxuality without fear and has spoken out about the dangers of double standards in Hollywood. I would never issue an apology for my life and for who I am,” she told GQ in 2008 as young actresses.
