Interview with ‘Jennifer’s Body’ Star Megan Fox

20th Century Fox held a special fan event for Jennifer’s Body at Hollywood & Highland on September 16th, complete with a Q&A with the cast – Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Brody and Johnny Simmons – the film’s director Karyn Kusama, and screenwriter Diablo Cody. There was also an autograph session as well as a special advance screening of the horror comedy immediately following the Q&A. But prior to all that, Megan Fox hit the mini-red carpet to chat up her starring role as a cheerleader who gets taken over by a demon and winds up feasting on teenage boys.

Megan Fox Interview

What did you think when you first read the script?

Megan Fox: “I thought it was the funniest script I’ve ever read. I was laughing on every page. She makes a joke on the first page about Amanda’s character, says she gets more fan mail than Jesus, Santa Claus and Zac Efron. I thought that was brilliant. It was darker and more interesting on every page.”

Had you seen Juno before you were approached?

Megan Fox: “No, Juno hadn’t come out yet.”

What did you think of the dialogue and the vibe?

Megan Fox: “I think she created a whole new dialogue in this movie. It’s definitely outside of the box, what you really see in the movie. It’s a different chord with the groove than most films do, but it was interesting. It’s interesting words.”

What do you think of the soundtrack?

Megan Fox: “Karyn [Kusama] did an amazing job. I saw the last two scenes of the movie while I was in Toronto and the music makes such a huge, huge difference in viewing the film. It really affected me as an audience member, even though I knew what was going to happen. It really tied into the scene a lot.”

How much fun did you have doing this?

Megan Fox: “I had a lot of fun doing it. I think we all had a lot of fun doing it. It was tedious and it was difficult at times, but we definitely had a lot of fun.”

What was your favorite thing about Jennifer?

Megan Fox: “That she’s irreverent and unapologetic.”

Are you squeamish about gore?

Megan Fox: “Yeah, not in this movie because I feel like we went in, not a cartoonish direction, but we didn’t try to make it gut-wrenching, frightening, disgusting to watch. In slasher movies, yeah, I can’t stand to watch the blood and the guts.”

If you’re a fraidy cat, what made you decide to do a horror movie?

Megan Fox: “Well, this isn’t really a horror film. This is a dark comedy that has some horror elements to it. So that’s why.”

How do you prepare for a role as a man-eating cheerleader?

Megan Fox: “You don’t really prep for it. I just sort of flew by the seat of my pants and hoped that it all worked out in the end.”

Questions from the Public Q&A Session:

How was working with Amanda Seyfried?

Megan Fox: “I think that we sort of fell into our actual characters. Subconsciously, did you do it on purpose? [to Amanda] I don’t know. I kind of took over and was the more aggressive one in the relationship with Amanda. I think we got along in a very interesting way and took that to screen.”

Did you wear prosthetics or was it all CGI?

Megan Fox: “We did a little bit of a prosthetic. We created an entire dental set for me to put in for when Jennifer is actually eating the boys. What happens is her jaw unclenches kind of like a snake so that she can fully envelop them in her mouth. There wasn’t a ton of prosthetic work. I was in and out of the makeup chair in about an hour and a half, so it wasn’t really a big deal.”

And working with director Karyn Kusama?

Megan Fox: “[...]She was really calm and really gracious with us as actors and gave us the opportunity to do what we wanted in a scene, which is not really normal for most directors. And I feel like when I met with her, she had a storyboard of all these different pictures that she had cut out that to me was mind-blowing how well she was interpreting Diablo’s script. I think we all just wanted to do it justice and not f–k it up.”

What’s the most ridiculous thing you did in the movie?

Megan Fox: “I think the most ridiculous thing that I shot in the movie was my make-out scene, the girl on girl kiss with Amanda.”