Here's What Megan Fox Has Said About 'Jennifer's Body'

Publish date: 2024-05-18

In 2009 the horror-comedy Jennifer's Body starring Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, and Adam Brody got here out. At the time the film gained in large part negative opinions from critics on the other hand that has since modified.

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Today, Jennifer's Body has accomplished cult status as one of the iconic horror comedies of the 2000s. Lead actress Megan Fox has said reasonably a lot about the movie since its unlock and in case you are wondering just what — keep on scrolling to determine!

10 Megan Would Love For The Movie To Have A Sequel Show

We're kicking the checklist off with the fact that Megan Fox thinks Jennifer's Body now not best merits as a sequel film — however a sequel display. Here's what the actress toldTheWashington Post:

"I don't think it's a hard movie to make a sequel to. I mean, they should make it into a TV series. That would be cool."

9 The Actress Always Knew That The Movie Is Amazing

While Jennifer's Body wasn't praised through audience and evaluations on the time of its unencumber —as of late, other people see the film from a feminist viewpoint and Megan Fox doesn't hide her love for the 2009 flick:

"Jennifer’s Body is iconic, and I love that movie. This movie is art, but when it came out, nobody was saying that. Critically, everybody shit on it."

8 Megan Admitted She Thinks She Was The Right Person To Play Jennifer

The actress's portrayal of the film's lead persona is definitely iconic — and Megan is aware of that. Here's what she revealed about taking part in Jennifer:

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"I mean, I think that it took someone who was, like, genuinely demented at that time to play a demon-possessed man-eating teenager, and I was just at a space in my life and mentally where I could fully embody that and be okay doing it. It wasn’t really an acting exercise, per se. It was just leaning into the darkest part of my own shadow."

7 She Revealed She's Happy For The People Who Were Involved In The Project

The actress is definitely satisfied the movie is well-liked now, and here's what she said on Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut podcast about why it flopped back in 2009:

"I’m happy for Diablo and I’m happy for Karyn [Kusama] — all these people put in a lot of hard work into making a really quality project that was panned for reasons that had nothing to do with them. A lot of it was just about my image at the time and who I was in the media at the time and the backlash to that. The movie never really stood a chance."

6 But She Also Thinks The Reason It Flopped Was Her Image At The Time

Around the time Jennifer's Body came out, Megan Fox had a major and really publicized fallout with Transformers director Michael Bay. The actress revealed that she thinks that influenced the way in which Jennifer's Body was once perceived:

"I was being vilified a little bit when the movie was getting ready for its release, it was that interesting juxtaposition to shooting up to extreme heights of fame right before the movie was released and then … the tearing me down was starting to happen. Then I had this immediate fallout with someone I worked in the industry. That happened right when I was on the press tour for ‘Jennifer’s Body.’ I think it all sort of exploded at once. I think people definitely viewed me as negative or having bad intentions or just being really shallow and selfish, if it could be reduced and simplified even to that."

5 Megan Admitted Being Hypersexualised In 'Jennifer's Body' Resulted In Her Having A Breakdown

While the celebrity completely loves the comedy-horror flick, she did admit that on the time she struggled along with her image in it. Here's what Megan revealed in an interview:

"I didn't want to be seen. I didn't want to have to take a photo, do a magazine, walk a carpet. I didn't want to be seen in public at all. [I had] the fear, and the belief, and the absolute certainty that I was going to be mocked, or spat at, or someone was going to yell at me, or people would stone me or savage me for just being out."

4 The Actress Said She Was Disappointed By How The Studio Marketed The Movie

While the film has completed cult status since its 2009 free up, Megan has said that she wasn't too proud of how the film used to be promoted. Here's what the actress said:

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"We were all aware of what we were making at the time that we were making it. We were all taken aback -- and we meaning me, Karyn [Kusama], Diablo [Cody], and the main players -- by how the studio marketed that movie, which was outrageous, and by how it was received. I can’t sit there and watch that movie and not be like, 'This is a f**king hilarious, subtle satire. This is a great movie.'"

In an interview with Vulture, Megan Fox revealed she was mostly oblivious to the movie's newly found good fortune. Here's what Megan said:

"I didn’t really understand how it had grown since we released it. I’m not online very much at all, so unless somebody takes me aside and says, 'This is happening,' I stay pretty much unaware of it. So I didn’t really understand how the movie continued to gain fans through the years. I have in recent years noticed a lot of Jennifer Checks out at Halloween, but this year all of a sudden, there were all these requests for the ten-year anniversary and celebrating it. I started looking into it a little bit more, really understanding the impact that it’s had, and I just didn’t realize that it was being appreciated now the way that it is."

Megan admitted that during a Q&A with fanatics, she came upon some symbolism in one scene of the film. Here's what Megan said:

"One of the things was when I was doing that sacrifice scene, there are of course other things that I can pull from my childhood and past, but for me, that scene represented my relationship with the movie studios at the time and the studio executives and directors and just Hollywood in general, because on almost a daily basis, I felt like I was being sacrificed for their gain with almost no concern for my physical well-being. F**k your mental or emotional well-being. That never is a question when you’re a woman in Hollywood. Whatever they need to do to me or put me through, they were going to do as long as it got them that they needed. So in that moment I think it was a very visceral, very powerful, almost cathartic experience, because I was able to let out everything that I was trying to keep in and not be vulnerable and play tough and fight it. I could just surrender to it and cry and wilt and it was okay."

1 Lastly, Megan Revealed That Her Mother Still Hasn't Seen The Movie

While the film has reached cult standing, there is not any doubt that some scenes are very tough to observe — in any case this is a horror film. Megan in reality admitted that her mother hasn't seen it yet — here's what she said:

"My mom still won’t watch it. She can’t handle it. She knows what happens ’cause she listened to it, but she won’t watch it."

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