Megan Fox got all the attention at the UK premiere of Transformers

Shape-shifting robots, big budget special effects, and good looking lead characters - the new Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, has the ingredients to be this summer’s big blockbuster movie.

Megan Fox, one of Hollywood’s hottest new talents, once again provides the female eye candy.

The 23-year dons her Lara Croft-style hot pants as Mikaela Banes - girlfriend of the film’s hero Sam (played by Shia LaBeouf).

The actress says that although she doesn’t like to watch the many lingering camera shots of her body, they’re nothing unusual for a thrills and spills popcorn movie.

“I don’t watch those parts… I don’t watch myself,” she said. “I only know of the one shot. Maybe there’s a few. I’m glad I don’t know which ones they are.

“But that’s part of the industry. It’s part of the summer blockbusters. They have those gratuitous shots of their actresses. It’s what the territory is.”

Body image

Her 2007 role in the first Transformers film, which made about £350m, raised Megan Fox’s profile around the world and also led to her being voted sexiest woman in the world by FHM magazine.

“I don’t think you ever become comfortable with a title like that”, says the Tennessee-born star.

“I’m just saying I’m comfortable doing what I need to do in order to make Michael Bay’s movie the way he wants it to be.”

It isn’t all about Fox and her body though. The film inevitably sees the goodie robots (the Autobots) crunch metal in a number of spectacular punch ups against their old enemy, the evil Decepticons.

However, Megan Fox says helping her on-screen boyfriend save the world wasn’t exactly easy: “The running is really hard. I just can’t keep up. He might be the fastest boy on the planet.

“I’ve never seen anyone run so fast. People have asked whether it’s a special effect, if they speed up the film.

“In the last movie he would just get really annoyed at me because I couldn’t keep up. In this movie I forced him to hold my hand to propel me forward!”

‘Hollywood starlet’

The last few years have seen Megan Fox’s sultry image splashed across the internet and magazines, and the actress admits that dealing with the media is something she’s struggled with.

However, Megan Fox says she’s now wising up to how the media works and how her sometimes less-than-serious comments can be misinterpreted.

Megan Fox was in Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen in 2004

“Especially with the internet and everyone having their own blog, people like to twist your words and it’s hard to express the intent behind some of your jokes when they’re in black and white.

“I become a little fearful and I’m trying to be a little more aware of it. At the same time I do wanna be a real human being because I think eventually audiences will appreciate that.

“They’re tired of that old cookie-cutter, manufactured, Hollywood starlet stuff.”

Megan Fox’s confidence in speaking her mind and wicked sense of humour may set her apart from other young actresses, but she could be in danger of being typecast for her looks.

Her next film is the lead in a bizarre-sounding “sci-fi, dark comedy thriller” called Jennifer’s Body.

Megan Fox says her character gets sacrificed by a rock band and ends up becoming “a little man eater, she eats the boys in her high school.” Sounds like one to look out for.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is out in cinemas now.