It’s been 15 years since Megan Fox had the presumably bizarre experience of achieving a career apex and nadir all at once. In 2009, she co-starred in the second-highest-grossing U.S. release of the year, and easily the biggest of her career, with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and a few months later had her first real non-love-interest lead in Jennifer’s Body, a horror film from acclaimed director Karyn Kusama and screenwriter Diablo Cody, and pretty handily the best movie she’s ever made. But the press and the public both got mixed up, and somehow Fox got the short end of both movies. The really good one wasn’t recognized as such until years later – Jennifer’s Body now has its appreciative cult – and somehow a major story emerging from the terrible Transformerssequel was that Fox got bounced from its own follow-up, while maybe it should have been framed as a triumphant escape. Somehow, anything that went wrong with her …
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