Megan Fox ‘angry’ about the way she was treated in Hollywood

Actress Megan Fox recently re-watched a film where her performance was trashed. And now she’s hit back.

Megan Fox has revealed she recently became “really angry” about the criticism she has copped over the years, after watching a film where her performance was panned.

The 34-year-old didn’t specify which movie she rewatched, but revealed the backlash she received at the time of its release made her think she was a terrible actress for years.

“I started getting really angry,” she toldRefinery29.

“I was like, F**k that, why did I live for a decade thinking that I was s**t at something when I was actually pretty decent at it?

“That led to this realisation that I’d been in a self-imposed prison for so much of my life.”

Fox’s treatment in Hollywood has only just started to raise concerns.

After her big break in Transformers in 2007 she was immediately typecast as a sex symbol; a tag that plagued her early career and left little room for conversation about her acting potential.

But it was when she made alarming (though not considered so at the time) comments about Transformers director Michael Bay that Hollywood became unkind to her.

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Megan Fox. Picture: Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Ferrari North America

When asked (a pretty rude question) by Wonderland magazine if “being a better actor matters if you’re just really hot?”, an understandably annoyed Fox gave an insight into what it was like working for Bay.

“Yeah, it does matter. Not to Michael Bay because those are literally his directions sometimes. ‘Be Hot’,” she said.

“I’ve had that note on set before. ‘Mike,’ I’ll say, ‘Who am I talking to? Where am I supposed to be looking at?’ And he responds, ‘Just be sexy.’ I get mad when people talk to me like that.”

She was subsequently sacked from the third Transformers film and replaced by Rosie Huntington-Whitely.

It was only in the wake of the viral #MeToo movement – which has condemned the culture among Hollywood’s most powerful men — that people began to question how she was treated.

Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox and Transformers director Michael Bay. Picture: AP/Maya Hitij

“A publication wrote about me after that (interview) and said, ‘Megan Fox should be thanking Michael Bay because otherwise she would be modelling for motorcycles and doing pornography’,” she added to Refinery29.

“That was the response. I don’t think somebody would say that today, because people are more aware of how they speak, but it was savage. It was hard to live through some of that, honestly.

“At the time, I would have appreciated some support. I was just stranded in open water on my own for so long. However, that built up so much strength.

“To have to go through a challenge like that, the resiliency that I have and the ability to survive really negative things with no support from outside forces made me a better person. “So, I don’t regret it. Of course I look back and think — it would have been nice if any of you had seen this at that time that there was a bandwagon of absolute toxicity being spewed at me for years. But I appreciate the reversal of it.”

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Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green recently announced their split. Picture: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Paramount Pictures International

The mother-of-three is currently promoting her new movie, military thriller Rogue – and in a separate interview with Entertainment Tonight she commented on her marriage breakdown with Brian Austin Green, and her new relationship with rapper Machine Gun Kelly.

“For whatever reason, people are very trigger happy to call me stupid or call me vain or call me a sl*t, which is crazy,” she told ET.

“I was in the same relationship for 15 years, you know?”