Megan Fox has opened up about being sacked from Michael Bay's Transformers franchise, calling the moment a career low in a new interview with Cosmopolitan UK.
The actress worked with Michael Bay on the first two Transformers movies in 2007 and 2009, but famously fell out with the director, even publicly comparing him to Adolf Hitler at one point.
Needless to say, she wasn't invited back to take part in the third Transformers film, and now Megan has admitted that the whole situation marked a real career low for her.
"That was absolutely the low point of my career," she told Cosmopolitan. "But without – 'that thing' – I wouldn't have learned as quickly as I did.
"All I had to do was apologise – and I refused. I was so self-righteous at 23, I couldn't see [that] it was for the greater good. I really thought I was Joan of Arc."
Luckily, Megan and Michael eventually made up and reunited to work on his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, although it looks like the director should make the most of Megan while he can, as she revealed that she's not going to be acting forever.
"I would never pick work over life," she said. "I'm the least ambitious actress! I pick movies that'll be fun to make. I'm not here to suffer for the art of movie-making or 'bleed for the craft.' And I'm not going to be an actress forever. I've always known I have another calling."
But, for now, Megan is still working – even if she hopes that attitudes towards the way women are represented on screen will change soon.
"I still get offered a lot of 'genius strippers' and 'funny escorts' by guys in the business," she added. "But I don't want to be involved with something genuinely degrading. Or that encourages negative sexual ideals about women.
"Old-school male attitudes towards women – it's still in all the adverts. When my kids grow up, hopefully that attitude will be gone. I'm not ashamed of sexy poses or parts. Women shouldn't go out of their way to be dowdy. Being feminine is a very sexy thing."
The full interview appears in the December 2017 issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale 30 October.
