[Movies] Megan Fox Talks Jonah Hex

Posted by Chris Lansdell on 06.15.2010

Her role, her stunts and her corset...

Megan Fox did an interview with IGN recently, talking about her role in Jonah Hex and other topics. Some highlights:

On doing a movie that didn't involve giant robots: I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme, because they're things I watched or loved as a kid. So it wasn't really about getting away from the robots, if that's what you were saying. I enjoyed making both films.

On shooting the action scenes: Actually, there was one gunfight scene that stunts had been choreographing for a couple of weeks, and I had minutes to get it down and rehearse it, and it was really difficult for me to shoot the old-style gunslinger guns, because I have tiny little baby hands, and they're really large and really heavy, so just the physicality of having to pull that off was really difficult. This was more action-heavy for me, it was more intricate, the action, in this movie, than in previous movies that I've done.

On her character's corset: I loved the corset. When I showed up for camera tests, everyone thought I was in pain, or hurting, that something was wrong with me, because my waist was so small, but I enjoyed it, and I wish they'd come back into style.

On how she sees herself: Well, I'm 24 now. Well, you have to be a strong person to survive this kind of fame, because it is very difficult to be under the microscope every moment of every day. Everything that leaves your mouth becomes this sensationalized news story, no matter what your intentions were when you first said it, so it becomes overwhelming. Am I that rebellious? I think there are many sides to me, and my personality, and I think the only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have a lot of fears as far as this industry is concerned, and I'll do things that maybe other people are afraid to do, or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships. I've always been that way.

On pleasing fans of the Jonah Hex comics: Well, I feel like it's impossible to really please the hardcore comic book fans, because they'll never be happy no matter what you do. I go on to Lord of the Rings forums, because I'm a fan, and they'll complain that Frodo was eating the Lembas bread outside of Mordor instead of the mines of Moria, and they get really mad. But Peter Jackson and company won like, thirty-something Oscars for that movie! So you can't focus completely on pleasing them, because you'll never win, and then you're excluding a whole other world of people who weren't aware of the comic in the first place, so I think you have to take some kind of liberties to make it into a live-action film, or it wouldn't work.