Megan Fox ready to live, hints at dark secret

She’s preparing to release Rogue, in which she takes on a new, stronger role than she typically plays. She plays the hero, a soldier named Samantha O’Hara. She says of no longer playing a sexy sidekick or damsel in distress: “I’ve been doing this for a while, and it’s nice to see the change occur.”

Director M.J. Bassett tells ET, “It was very important that [O’Hara] wasn’t a sexualized female action character. I’m tired of seeing women going into combat situations in flimsy clothes and high heels (and I have been guilty of it myself on occasion).”

“Casting Megan was an additional attempt to subvert expectations of who she is perceived to be in the media. She’s been an iconic sex symbol for so long now that I thought it would be really fun to try and do something different with her energy and image,” Bassett explains. “She has a naturally compassionate, soft and youthful energy which is polar opposites of who the character is, and I think, in the end, it was really that challenge that drew her to come on board.”

Fox also shares that she has some darker secrets she may share at some point. But probably not.

Because honestly, some of my stories are horrific,” Fox says. “I still don’t feel comfortable sharing my real story. And honestly, I wouldn’t anyway, because I’m not ever trying to take someone else down. It’s not my place now — all these years later — to ruin someone’s lives or try to throw them at the mercy of cancel culture.”

“And I’m still not really sure to what degree I would be supported, because I’m going through some stuff right now where perceptions are still very misogynistic and sexist and one-sided,” she points out. “For whatever reason, people are very trigger happy to call me stupid or call me vain or call me a slut, which is crazy. I was in the same relationship for 15 years, you know? It’s bizarre, this image that gets projected onto me that people have just accepted and that’s lived for over a decade. And that I never really did anything to earn in the first place.”