Thursday, June 11, 2009

Jonah Hex Movie news: Megan Fox talks..

Yup, MTV has this snippet: (emphasis mine)

“That movie is gonna be amazing,” explained the “Transformers” star. “It’s a post-civil war, apocalyptic type Western. The director Jimmy [Hayward] is a lunatic, and he might be a genius. From some of the things I’ve seen him shoot, it’s a badass movie.”

One of the big questions that have emerged since Fox’s on-set photos have emerged is a simple one: What character is she playing? And the answer is that it’s someone even the most die-hard fan of the comic series probably won’t remember.

“They’ve changed her name a couple of times — it’s Leila now,” Fox explained. “She is a prostitute. She’s a good ol’ working girl, and she’s a love-interest to Jonah… of sorts. I mean, it’s by no means a classic type of relationship.”

“She wasn’t really featured in the comics,” Fox said of her character. “Her name was initially Liala, and now they changed it — or it was Layla, and now they changed it to Leila. … All the women in the movie are prostitutes. … [I’m] sort of a tough, no-nonsense prostitute. Like, she’ll shoot you in the head if she has to. And she does!”

Asked if she means that literally, Fox revealed that she definitely gets to wield a handgun in the flick. “Not in the head,” she grinned. “[But I get to shoot someone] somewhere.”


Yeah, I won't remember her because she probably never existed, but now I have to go and double check.

1 comment:

SallyP said...

I hate to be pedantic...oh heck, who am I fooling. I LOVE to be pedantic! But women in the 1800's didn't have names like Layla, or Leila,or whatever...they had names like Betsy, or Flossie, or Mary or Sadie or something.

I'm a little peeved at Megan Fox anyway, since she was quite rude about Wonder Woman.