Megan Fox Demands Respect, Will Not Play a Stripper All the Time

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 1, 2009

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After playing the stereotypically catty, drop dead gorgeous most popular girl in school Carla Santini in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, smokin’ hot high school girl next door Mikaela Banes in Transformers and soon-to-be-released Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the shallow, self-involved starlet Sophie Maes in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, drop-DEAD-gorgeous possessed high school cheerleader Jennifer Check in the upcoming release Jennifer’s Body, etc. Megan Fox wants to be taken seriously as an actress.

That’s right, Megan Fox is making a point of keeping her clothes on in future film roles based on the number of skin-baring parts she has been offered. According to several sources (including this one), the 22-year-old actress is frustrated on how many roles she is offered based on her looks rather than her acting abilities. “Megan is a talented actress and a beautiful girl but it’s the latter that seems to have become something of a problem,” a source close to Fox commented. “Megan’s far from a prude when it comes to nudity in movies, but it seems she’s expected to strip for almost every movie she’s up for. She must have had a dozen scripts come her way in which she plays a stripper. Megan is going to make a point of keeping her clothes on as long as she can.”

I understand the desire to keep your clothes on, but honestly when working in a business where women feel pressured to appear nude and then are rewarded for doing so with Oscars and additional film roles, what could a babe like Megan really expect? Does she expect a casting director looking to cast a stripper to avoid the actresses that he or she thinks are not only popular among film audiences but drop dead gorgeous, to boot? Let’s face it, ladies and gents, in Hollywood sex sells. And Megan Fox is simply oozing with sex appeal.

What do you think? Should Megan Fox continue trying to be taken seriously, or should she just play a stripper…?


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  • If she wants to be taken seriously as an actress, maybe she should act first...half of her line readings in Transformers and How To Lose Friends were cringe-worthy.
  • tk.
    Hey, I still respect Kate Winslet and Marisa Tomei...
  • cyn0113
    If she's really serious about getting respect she should simply stop doing these films and hold out for some worthwhile roles. I'm sure if she shopped around she could find some intelligently written independent films that would love to have a recognizable face amongst their cast. Unfortunately while I respect her ambition I think part of the reason she's not getting respect is she hasn't demonstrated any real acting talent. Good actors can bring their characters to life even in the most terrible films.
  • cyn0113
    Addendum: I don't think anyone's writing a movie about a stripper because Megan Fox exists. They're writing a movie about a stripper and then sending it to Megan Fox because she's young and attractive. The same reason Shia LaBeouf gets roles as a gawky, awkward teenager. Because he fits the bill, he's lanky, pale and looks young.
  • Uh.... but Megan Fox can't act, seriously or otherwise.
  • Gimme Shelter
    Not a good actress. Great to look at. It's that simple.
  • Cobra Commander
    Stripper!!!
  • Matt
    STRIPPER! Im sorry but your totally right, sex sells. If your gonna be an actress you sure as hell better know it.
  • I'm sure there's some guy that has written an amazingly smart script that is very serious and compelling and that, simultaneously, wants to get close w/ Megan Fox and would demand to cast her so that she would respect him and work for him, and then the deserving-script-that-could gets to be seen by everyone like it wants, and Fox can make a movie where she is taken seriously like she wants.

    And then his long-term "get the girl w/ brains and humor" strategy works and they end up working on many projects together for a long time, at least one of which he can get her to play a stripper.

    If no one else has this script in their pocket, contact Cole Abaius ASAP.
  • I sympathize with her. It is hard to be taken seriously in Hollywood, but then again, it's her own fault for doing those racy photo shoots for Maxim and FHM. Respectable actresses like Ginnifer Goodwin and Keira Knightley would NEVER be caught dead posing for a trashy lad's magazine like FHM. So again, that's her own fault.

    But I think she could make a name for herself by becoming an action star like Jolie. Jolie is considered sexy AND is taken seriously because she always does big budget, action movies, while also doing serious roles (such as The Changeling and the upcoming Atlas Shrugged role)
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