our next guest star is in the biggest of the big summer of Blockbusters is called Transformers uh
Revenge of the Fallen it opened yesterday and has already earned 60 million dollars wow I got
that on me I spill more than that please welcome the very lovely Megan Fox good to
have you here Megan thank you very much tell me uh where you grew up where'd you grow up
um I was born in Tennessee Tennessee I lived there until I was hey there's one person from Tennessee
um and then I moved to Florida when I was 10. I lived there until I was 16 and then I dropped out
of high school and I moved to California well I dropped out of high school now right there
that's that's fairly provocative statement what kind of what kind of kid were you in high school
that caused you to want to drop out I mean have always been sort of loudmouthed and obnoxious
really a little bit I'm sort of known for for my mouth and I was always that way and I was
never really interested in um you've had a guest that has said this before but I'm not really good
with authority figures and so I wasn't really good with school and my mom she made me get an actual
diploma though so I I dropped out an enrolled in correspondent school and I have a diploma and I
actually graduated top of my class that's great now can I tell you something yes go right ahead
I've had three crushes my whole life Jon Stewart Conan O'Brien and you oh I just want to tell you
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thank you thank you yeah what uh what are those other two do
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now now Megan and now were you uh were you in trouble when you were in high school were
you a troubled kid were you in trouble I mean from maybe 10 years until 16 I was sort of like
perpetually grounded because I would I started the first time I ever got in trouble I was a good
student like straight A's um in fifth grade I got caught passing notes talking about this boy named
Troy Pruitt who was my first French kiss and he had hair like Zac Efron I remember exactly and
um I I got caught my mom got called into the principal's office and I got in trouble I got
grounded and then I I escaped the house I I snuck out and then I got grounded again like
for longer and this just happened over and over again until I woke up and I was 17 years old and
I hadn't left the house in seven years and and what was it because even at an early age that
you knew what you wanted to do and felt like high school was just getting in the way or it was just
being difficult I was just being difficult just for the fun of it yeah just for the exercises I
think so uh but then you impressed upon your mother that what you wanted to do was be an
actor right and and then so you guys everybody packs up moves in California she moved me out
here yeah and the deal was when I got when I could pay for my rent I could live alone and I
got my first job was actually with Lindsay Lohan in a movie called Confessions of a Teenage Drama
Queen one of the Cinematic greats and um and uh I it paid my rent it for like a year so she
moved back to Florida and I began my journey on my own yeah so it's funny because a mom probably in
your high school years or the first part of your high school years just kind of held her breath
for you right and now she can exhale and things are just fine yeah I think she accepted yeah she
had dealt with me for so long she had accepted whatever was going to happen was going to happen
this is Marilyn Monroe that is Maryland oh that's beautiful as we're talking to Johnny Depp about
people that he liked as uh watching other actors is this somebody that you were fond of I guess so
well I better be yeah no no it's an accident Dave it was supposed to be Thomas Jefferson
yeah I I I'm a fan I mean she's not someone that I would ever want to emulate I would say
but I you know I think she's iconic and a piece of artwork Her Image is art at this point what
do you what do you do when you're not uh acting you've only been in like a handful of films wow
wow three I mean two really great movies to be in and the first one you got to start somewhere
right yeah exactly thank you and what do you what do you do other than acting uh not much I'm sort
of a Hermit I hide in my house and I I do a lot of boring things like paint and paint yeah like
artistic painting or painting like painting the trim in my apartment no I no I like painting on
canvas like oil paintings and uh are you married no I'm not married I knew this was coming really
let's get into this let's just do this I'm gonna try to start anything oh okay it's just by way of
general information oh okay that's not going in your record I'm not married I'm 23. 23 yeah you
got plenty of time got time yeah have you come close to being married I have Dave [Laughter] but
for one reason or another well you know who well I just feel like I mean actually 23 you're fine
right I was I was engaged at one point but I feel like um you're engaged because the goal
is marriage and at 23 marriage is not a realistic goal I'm not um capable I don't think I'm capable
of being a good wife to someone right now and I think it's only fair too you're a kid okay you
have a better interest you're a kid you're allowed to be selfish with your life and irresponsible no
you're not you're not irresponsible or immature look at me I waited till I was 62. look at you
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this thing a Transformers the first to film did you say or did I say it made 700 million
dollars the first time 700 million dollars I predicted it would make 70. really you
thought that would be it uh and the second one is already doing quite well let's show them a
clip here Megan what are we going to see um Something's Gonna explode and there's going
to be he's gonna be running and screaming and actually in this in this clip our stunt
doubles almost died because the the there's a gas bomb that detonates and it detonated too
early a gas bomb yeah it goes off and completely surrounds them and you'll see it at the end okay
this is uh Transformers Revenge of the Fallen something uh crazy will happen foreign [Music]
wow that's where do I get my ticket that was crazy
now that's not it that's not even in 3D is it wow well Megan great to have you here thank you thank
you very much enjoy your summer it's Transformers Revenge of the Fallen [Music] foreign [Music]