After five back-to-back movie flops, any actor in the industry would be considered functionally finished.
Directors would stop taking their calls, and they would sink to the bottom of casting agents’ lists, often permanently.
But this has not been the case with Megan Fox, as her persona is larger than life, and producers still want to cast her in their projects.
After her decent performances in Till Death and Night Teeth respectively, Fox’s five most recent movies have been box office disasters — including the star-studded Expend4bles:
A cast of towering figures in Tinseltown – Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Megan Fox – couldn’t salvage the $100 million budget action film, which only brought in $37 million at the box office.
Megan had high hopes for this film, as her four previous films – Taurus, Big Gold Brig, Good Mourning, and Johnny & Clyde – were box office bombs.
It’s not Fox’s fault any of these films flopped, as there are many factors involved in any movie’s failure.
However, the film industry is cruel — when an actor’s luck leads to a string of flops, it often inherently builds a sort of negative momentum.
It takes time for an actor to bounce back from a run of unsuccessful projects, and more often than not, they struggle or fail entirely in reversing the trend.
Surprisingly, though, these consecutive flops didn’t diminish Megan Fox’s career or fame in the slightest.
She is still a darling in the industry, fans want to see her in films, and she’s making movies and increasing her net worth as if nothing went wrong.
Today, let’s examine Megan Fox’s net worth, how she remains an indomitable force in spite of an unlucky streak, and how her fortune is increasing in spite of that string of unsuccessful movies.
Megan Fox’s Beginnings, Struggles, And The ‘Sex Symbol’ Stereotype
Not many people know that Megan started her career when she was just 15, as Brianna in the 2001 comedy crime movie Holiday In The Sun.
Two years later, she was able to land an uncredited role in the blockbuster Bad Boys II, in a “blink and you’ll miss it” moment — as an exuberant young exotic dancer in a “star and stripes” ʙικιɴι.
In 2002, though, her series Ocean Ave was short-lived and poorly received, making her path to fame more arduous.
However, her subsequent appearance on the show Hope & Faith series boosted her profile significantly.
After that role, she was considered for what would become her breakthrough project, Michael Bay’s Transformers:
After the success of Transformers, it would be easy to think its breakout star (Fox) waltzed into stardom solely on the basis of her impeccable beauty.
But in actuality, Megan worked hard for years, and battled uphill to get onto that set.
After Transformers became a certified hit, Megan enraptured audiences, both with her skill and her supermodel-esque appearance.
Yet Transformers was something of a double-edged sword for Fox, and controversially, Bay deliberately amplified her as a “Sєx symbol.”
To this day, Fox’s role in Transformers is discussed and debated, and in March, Collider.com revisited the controversy around Fox and Bay, recapping the matter:
“Megan Fox has opened up about her anxieties as a prominent figure in the public limelight and the mental anguish caused by the rampant misogyny in Hollywood. Her controversial Wonderland interview contains descriptions of Bay’s Sєxually-charged direction, where the actor claims that she was merely told to ‘be H๏τ’ and ‘just be Sєxy’ in place of nuanced acting.
“Fox claimed that her fetishized appearance in the Transformers films was a product of satisfying Bay’s interests. She placated the director by gaining [between eight and ten] pounds before filming, as Bay ‘doesn’t really like skinny actresses.’
“From her co-workers and relentless media exposure, Fox’s body image has been dissected and judged since the minute she became a household name.”
Fox has never outright said she eschewed this “Sєx symbol” status, but even now, 17 years after her career debut, she has struggled to shake the stereotype.
She has never truly escaped this “Bombshell” label, as she often receives scripts in which her role would be as a seductress.