Creativity won’t stop coming out,’ he says. ‘It’s almost like she reconnected a wire in my brain. Meeting Fox gave MGK new inspiration that fuelled his music. MGK lights a cigarette, clearly already much more comfortable outside. We have found somewhere quiet at last, in front of the building that really does look like an industrial warehouse, where some tables and chairs are set up.
He makes a joke about how it’s like another one of his favourite movies, Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, in which the lead singer of a band makes a journalist follow him from place to place without ever making time for the actual interview. Fox thinks there’s nothing shameful about wanting to find that kind of deep, all-encompassing love. It’s more that she had gotten herself to be in a place where she could be with someone great. That’s what that beacon was this whole time.”’ When I ask if she found love because she stopped looking for it, she demurs. But then you meet the person that completes that for you and you’re like, “Oh, this is what my heart was searching for. I’d always felt like there was that thing missing, that I’d given up on, that you’re always seeking. I recognise so much of myself in him, and vice versa, and that locked-up part of me that I had put away. That’s something that, meeting him, it’s like meeting your own soul’s reflection. ‘And I had buried a lot of that because it didn’t have a place to live. ‘You know, famously, like, I’m an unusual person,’ she says. She’s finally finding comfort in who she’s always been deep down: a star who doesn’t fit neatly into boxes and doesn’t back down from their personal convictions. Upcoming releases include Big Gold Brick with Oscar Isaac and Night Teeth on Netflix in October. Fox has shifted to indie movies and ensembles. Hollywood seemingly still has no idea what to do with a gorgeous, smart actress, forcing them to build their careers on their own terms. She has shown a range of depth extending to dark dramas, horror and comedy, while Gen-Z star Olivia Rodrigo, in her “Good 4 U” music video, channelled Jennifer’s Body, the 2009 Karyn Kusama horror comedy in which Fox portrayed a cheerleader with very sharp teeth. She chooses her words very carefully, especially when talking about her career path. In person, she is thoughtful and initially a little shy. She ended up in the Transformers blockbusters where she became a superstar sex symbol who sparked public debate about the sexualisation of actresses, a conversation that made her into a symbol and spiralled far away from her actual personhood.
‘We went to the roof and played pop punk and made out,’ he recalls, tippling a glass of Casamigos tequila.įox was a teenage actress from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who was frequently cast as a beautiful mean girl before doing a stint on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith.
Then they drove down Sunset Boulevard to the Roxy Theatre, which was closed. He drove her to a canyon’s edge where he had a friend waiting with a picnic set up on a blanket and a sea of roses. It was all the obstacles that had kept us apart all those years and we were able to finally intersect.’įor their first real date MGK picked Fox up in a 1974 Cadillac convertible and they listened to Ella Fitzgerald. I was obviously over the way I had been living, and those paths lined up, those doors opened.
She wasn’t looking for love: ‘ definitely open love, but I did not anticipate walking right into my soulmate like that. We just put our lips right in front of each other and breathed each other’s breath and then she just left.’įox says she was trying to protect her heart, even though she knew she was already falling hard for him. ‘Even our first kiss, she wouldn’t kiss me. ‘It felt like five minutes, so it didn’t even feel like three hours,’ he responds.
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