‘When you dance wet as an extra, you get paid more’: Watch old Megan Fox interview
Megan Fox has been making headlines lately. And not for her new relationship with Machine Gun Kelly.
It’s because of a 2009 interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
Over 10 years ago, the actress appeared on the late night talk show and told Kimmel about how she worked on “Bad Boys 2” in Miami when she was just 15.
Kimmel, who is under fire for wearing black face and joking about the N-word back when he did “The Man Show,” joked when Fox talked about her underage experience.
Fox told the comedian that because she wasn’t legal, director Michael Bay said she could wear a bikini and high heels during a club scene, but could not sit at a bar.
“[His] solution to that problem was to then have me dancing under a waterfall getting soaking wet,” said Fox. “At 15, I was in 10th grade. That’s sort of a microcosm of how Bay’s mind works.”
Kimmel responded: “Well, that’s really a microcosm of how all our minds work, but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don’t exist.”
In May 2016, when Fox was in Miami doing press for “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” the 34 year old (then pregnant with her third child with estranged husband Brian Austin Green) discussed growing up in Florida and landing her first big-screen role.
“I was a dancer in ‘Bad Boys 2’ when I was underage, by the way. Yeah, I was fully clothed, but I did get paid extra for dancing under a waterfall!” said the Port St. Lucie native around the six-minute mark. “Because when you dance wet as an extra, you get paid more money.”
Fox laughed at the memory and it currently seems she wants the Kimmel interview to go back to the archives. In an Instagram post Monday, she defended the director.
“Please hear me when I thank you for your support but these specific instances were inconsequential in a long and arduous journey along which I have endured some genuinely harrowing experiences in a ruthlessly misogynistic industry,” Fox wrote. “When it comes to my direct experiences with Michael, I was never assaulted or preyed upon in what I felt was a sexual manner.”
Neither Bay nor Kimmel has yet to comment publicly on the matter. Kimmel has, however, taken a break for the summer from his show to “spend even more time” with his family.
This story was originally published June 23, 2020 at 3:25 PM.
