Megan Fox must have woken up one morning and decided this town was only big enough for one set of action-star mammaries.
And with Scarlett Johansson signed on to star in Iron Man 2, she must have been feeling the competitive heat, causing her to fire off this warning shot in Esquire:
“I don’t want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson – who I have nothing against,” she says, “but I don’t want to have to go on talk shows and pull out every single SAT word I’ve ever learned to prove, like, ‘Take me seriously, I am intelligent, I can speak.’ I don’t want to have to do that. I resent having to prove that I’m not a retard.”
I’m going to hazard a guess that the reason more people see Scarlett Johansson as a serious actress is because she has more serious street cred.
Scarlett is a muse for Woody Allen; Megan chooses scripts in Michael Bay movies. Scarlett has been nominated for four Golden Globes and has starred in multiple period films; Megan wears wet tee-shirts in popcorn flicks. Scarlett settled down (arguably) and married good-guy Ryan Reynolds; Megan is on-again/off-again with the dude who played David Silver on 90210.
And oh, most notably: Scarlett may use 5¢ words in interviews but she sure doesn’t use pejoratives. Megan Fox, on the other hand…
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Lord knows I won’t defend Scarlett, who acts as well as the dead tree in my backyard, but I’ll defend those sweater puppies all day long.
Fox is just trash. Not even very good looking trash at that.
Will she be chastised for using the word “retard”? Methinks that Hollywood will give her a pass.
And Jrod would still hit it. But then, so would I.
I smell publicity campaign. I mean, does anyone think Ms. Fox has the brains to pick a useless fight with ScarJo all on her own?
I would so…damn, I might actually make love in this instance…*sigh*
In case anyone is interested…
Megan Fox is hot like that really hot, street smart waitress at the bar you like so much.
Scarlet Johannson is hot like the girl in the Woody Allen/period piece movies.
I don’t know it’s just how I see it I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film).
She won’t be Chastised Dave for using “retard” because she’s not competing in a beauty pageant.
Seriously though, the only way to really answer the question of who’s more legit is to have them both compete on an equal playing field in a contest that shows off the reason why people pay money to watch their movies.
Obviously, this would be a contest involving wresting in some type of substance.
Like, you know, why should she have to prove that she not, like, you know, a total airhead, because, like, she’s so like totally hot she shouldn’t have to like, you know,even prove she’s worth paying attention to.
LOL.
Having any relation to Woody Allen isn’t street cred, its the PR equivalent of having the feds find your name in the address book of a pedophila ring.
Touché, Ahem. (I also would have accepted “The Nanny Diaries.”)
I LIKED David Silver and TRANSFORMERS. 90210 got me through College along with the “Simpsons”. I cannot stand Scarlett and Ryan, espeically after the whole, “I have been emailing Obama and we are good friends” crap that she informed everyone. People who shove their political views in my face, especially ones that are from a different country (i.e her husband) drops down a few notches in my book. I have not seen a movie that she is in that I actually like.
Who? Never heard of her.
It’s almost like a fight between one well-groomed, well-publicized whore and another one who’s almost identical except for her hair color. Well, it’s exactly like that, actually.
Well, I tried to dredge up some sympathy, but that well happens to currently be a little low.
I hate to see the word “like” used that way, makes my brain bleed. And if she thinks that she’s “a retard”…then it’s her own doing.
Just to help, she (Fox) dropped this little gem in the same interview:
“I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”
It seems that the hypocrisy she’s missing is that she’s likely willing to, herself, sleep with multiple men. Wow. Even Scarlett is nowhere near that annoying with her faux enlightenment.
Okay, I have never seen a Megan Fox movie. Maybe that’s because I had no interest in Transformers and no one had heard of her before that. Just maybe. That said, Scarlett Johansson has not always picked the best roles and is not the greatest actress. Thank you, Ahem, for pointing out The Island. I had the exact same thought. She was also in Eight Legged Freaks as a teen. If you had the good fortune not to see it, it was the movie with giant monster spiders and David Arquette. Always the mark of a quality film. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271367/
The only other movie I’ve seen her in was The Prestige. I thought the movie was good, and Hugh Jackman was a total fox, as always. Scarlett should not have even been on my radar, especially with David Bowie playing Nikola Tesla and Tesla in the movie at all, but her accent was so unbelievable it was completely distracting.
This is not the Virtued vs. the Virtueless. It’s a pretty even playing field.
Wait I forgot The Black Dahlia. That was pretty terrible. I could not take more that 15 minutes of that. Scarlett did not help.
Maybe I’m a little cranky right now, but I’m getting pretty tired of people relating Brian Austin Green to a role he played nearly 20 years ago. He was very good in Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and he has turned into a very rugged and handsome man. Those David Silver jibes are OLD.
“I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.”
Ow, Kristine, that makes my brain hurt. Is this her attempt to justify sleeping with anyone and everyone, or to explain why she’s not getting any at all?
Scarlett Johansson talks?
And Megan Fox? You can have her. I’ll take Megan Good. Now I understand how other people feel when I point out a chick I think is hot and they do not. My penis could really care less about this woman.
Her “acting” is acting scared and bending over in purposely provocative poses, and she wants us to take her seriously? She’s a porn actress who happens to be in mainstream movies without any sex.
I agree, MC Mom, it is incredibly painful. I guess that’s her explaining why she’s not getting any except with pure lesbians?? It’s seriously too much to think of this close to bed. Probably going to have nightmares now. With quotes like that, I don’t know why she would have anything to prove against Scarlett???
“Fox is just trash. Not even very good looking trash at that.” i agree. i’m sorry but i don’t see the big effin deal with this megan fox chick.. i’ve never heard her say anything remotely intelligent and i would NEVER ever say “retard” in an interview like that. i thought that was funny in the 6th grade but not now. fox seems like just another asshat.
Well, Fox obviously can’t out-act Johanssen, low a bar as that is, so she’s decided to outslut her. And she’s winning handily thus far in THAT race.
You know, I need really need some sort of Who the Hell is This Spoogevessel? icon to use in situations like this.
YERRRRRGGGGHHHH, Minnow. And also: Hee!
But Beige and Minnow, according to her quote above, Megan is bisexual but only with girls who aren’t themselves spoogevessels.
I can’t start trying to making sense of this again because I’ll just hurt myself, and Deceiver doesn’t really feature any warning labels.
She can’t act and she sucks who cares
I’m with you there, snaphiss. I love BAG in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And I think he’s hot. He’s like what Jack Black would look like if he took care of himself a bit more.
Anyway, I have mixed feelings on Megan Fox. On one hand, if I were into girls, she would be the type of girl I’d go for. I’m not into girls, so I’m instead going to be catty. She’s trying way too hard. I’m not saying that she was horrible in the one movie of hers I’ve seen, or that she was anything spectacular beyond eye candy, but she would probably do a whole lot better if she showed a little more respect to actresses who have substantially meatier roles on their resume. I’m not a fan of ScarJo’s, thinks she’s way overrated, but come on. Seriously, Megan?
And yes… yes, I find Jack Black attractive. Funny guys are my weakness.
I like funny guys too, Chronic, but generally more along the lines of Paul Rudd than Jack Black.
Jack Black kind of reminds me of my first boyfriend too.
Megan fox IS a retard. If she wasn’t, she wouldn’t say those intimidative things about ScarJo, RPattz or Zac Efron. Who does she thinks she is? She is nothing without Transformers. Oh and she even did nothing at all in that movie.
All I can say to her is just Shut the hell up and manage urself to make good movies and learn to act well!!!
*sigh* Megan, Megan, Megan, what would you do with a clue if you even had one? I’m feeling generous today so I’ll give you a small piece of advice. Drop the pounds of makeup, stop going under the knife, take acting lessons, get a proper education, try to score a movie with a promising role INSTEAD of the cover of men’s magazines, stop shoving your sex life up everyone’s nose, if possible get rid of those trashy tattoos via laser or any means possible and SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH YOU STUPID BITCH! Then maybe, MAYBE people will start taking you as seriously as Scarlett. Oh, and don’t use a term like “retard” to illustrate your point, you just proved to the world that you are no better than one.
Scarlett hotter than Megan? Negative.
Megan Fox is so HOT, that when she walked into a Dunkin Donouts the rats there moved over to Ben & Jerry’s. Now, THAT’s HOT!
It’s a shame that people hold a grudge over Megan because she’s outspoken and someone who does not play “by the rules” like the phonies such as Scarlett. Besides, if Scarlett ever ran into Megan, Megan will slap her like the phony bitch that she is.
No woman with a huge forehead is hotter than Megan Fox.
…Aaaannnnnd Megan’s dad weighs in.
Megan looks like a hooker with that trench coat and tights, which I guess that’s what they were trying to achieve.
I read something today about how Megan Fox has a habit of not cleaning up after herself, even to the extent of not flushing. At other people’s houses, even. BLECHHH. I mean, if a guy’s into that sort of thing, yay for him, but otherwise, ick.