Published 20:23 IST, June 26th 2020
What happened to Megan Fox's career? How did she make a comeback?
Megan Fox is a prominent star of Hollywood. Here is how she managed to become a successful actor after passing a number of challenges. Read
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Megan Fox is a popular actor kwn for her contribution to Hollywood. She entered acting industry with 2001 film, Holiday in Sun. For a couple of years, she was brought on as a guest star on shows like What I Like About You and Two and a Half Men. After some years of struggle, Megan Fox mand to land her breakout role in Confessions of a Teen Drama Queen.
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Megan Fox's acting career
movie Confessions of a Teen Drama Queen certainly established Megan as a successful and talented actor that got her a number of or gigs. After 2004 film, Megan bagged a role in ABC’s sitcom called Hope & Faith. She replaced Nicole Paggi and portrayed role of Sydney Shawski in show. She continued to appear on show until it was called off by ABC in year 2006.
In 2007, Megan mand to land a prominent role in famous action franchise, Transformers. In this film, Megan played love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky that certainly got her mainstream popularity. Fox was minated for Breakthrough Performance title at MTV Movie Awards. She n reportedly signed two Transformers movies but deal fell apart.
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Megan Fox got critical acclaim and worldwide recognition with her performance in Transformers. However, she gave some statements to media portals that working with Transformers director Michael Bay was like working under “Hitler”. After this statement, Megan Fox was fired from franchise in June of 2009.
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actor n bagged a lead role in film Jennifer's Body which was written by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody. Megan also started shooting for her film Jonah Hex where she played role Leila, Jonah Hex’s love interest. film received a lot of negative responses and was a critical and commercial failure in US. After that, film’s international distribution right was cancelled, which certainly took a hit on Megan's acting career.
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From 2010-2014, Megan Fox went on to do a number of projects like Passion Play, Naya Legend of Golden Dolphins, Dictator and Robot Chicken but was t able to rise to her previous status as a Hollywood diva.
In 2013, Megan decided to set aside her differences with Transformers director Michael Bay and started worked again with him on his reboot of Teen Mutant Ninja Turtles, which kickstarted her acting career again. She was also brought in to reprise her role for Teen Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of Shadows and went on to do or films like Above Shadows, Zeroville, and Battle of Jangsari Maggie.
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20:23 IST, June 26th 2020