Megan Fox made her breakthrough role in Michael Bay’s Transformers as Mikaela Banes. The actress’ career catapulted with the continued success of the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The actress starred alongside rising star Shia LaBeouf and they played lovers amidst the larger Transformers world.
Fans have always believed that the two actors were romantically linked to each other at the time. Fox was enquired about this in a 2018 interview. While being hesitant at first, the Transformers actress confirmed that her relationship with LaBeouf was indeed romantic on set.
Megan Fox Admits She Was Romantically Linked With Shia LeBeouf During Their Transformers Days
Megan Fox starred alongside Shia LeBeouf in the first two Transformers films from Michael Bay. The two actors had splendid chemistry and carried the film through their dynamic along with the epic Autobots action. People have shipped the on-screen couple in the movie and have always wondered whether they were a couple in real life.
Fox has always said great things about LaBeouf over the years. The Honey Boy star told Details Magazine in 2011 about the sparks between him and Fox during the filming of the mammoth projects (via HuffPost). The actor stated that the time spent with Fox on set was their own thing, intensifying the rumors that fans had for years.
In 2018, Fox made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, where she played a game of Plead the Fifth, Cohen asked the Transformers actress about her views on LeBeouf’s comments and whether she was romantically linked to him. The actress confirmed that they had a romantic relationship and she has never been shy about it. Fox said,
I mean, I would confirm that it was romantic. I love him. I have never been really quiet about that. I love him.
The first Transformers film was a huge hit grossing $707 million against a $150 million budget (via Box Office Mojo). The two stars had more prominent roles in the second film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen where their popularity skyrocketed. The second film was an even bigger box office success grossing $836 million against a $200 million budget (via Box Office Mojo).
Megan Fox Loved Starring In Till Death Despite Her Physically Draining Role In It
After starring in a string of blockbusters and studio films, Megan Fox starred in the 2021 thriller Till Death. The film chronicles Megan’s character after she is found handcuffed to her dead husband and tries to survive the hired killers who come after her. The film is one of the rare projects in Fox’s career where she gets to flex her acting chops.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actress revealed that she had never read a script like that of the film and had never starred in a straight-up thriller before. She also found it physically draining to pull her stunt double (her dead husband) in every scene as she tried to survive. Despite all that, she still loved the experience of making the tense physically demanding thriller. Fox said in the interview,
It was just different than anything else I had read or seen. I haven’t done, like, a marriage drama before. I haven’t done, like, a grownup movie. I haven’t done a traditional thriller or horror movie before. His job was to play dead, so he was like actually [acting] dead and I was handcuffed to him and I had to pull him around through all of the scenes.
And it wasn’t easy! I don’t do well sitting still, talking all day, every day in a room. That’s not as inspiring to me as something like this. So I had a great time. I’ll always choose movies like this over something that’s more contained.
The film received mainly positive reviews from critics who all praised Fox’s understated and grounded performance. The film has a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, probably the highest-rated film in her career. The Transformers star and the director of Till Death, S.K Dale are reuniting for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Subservience.
Fans can watch the first two Transformers films on Paramount+.
