Compared to some other late night TV hosts, Jimmy Kimmel is relatively wholesome, but that doesn't mean he always lands on the mark. When his 2009 interview with Megan Fox took a lecherous turn, there was nothing but bad vibes. It was so uncomfortable that it hit headlines again more than a decade after it first aired.
In the"Jimmy Kimmel Live" interview, Fox opened up about working with Michael Bay as an extra on 2003's "Bad Boys II." At the time, the star was just 15 years old — a literal child actor — but she was reportedly put in a "stars and stripes bikini," cowboy hat, and "like six inch heels" for a scene that took place in a nightclub. The problem was that Fox was too young to sit at the bar and hold a drink.
To solve the issue, Fox claimed that Bay put her "dancing underneath a waterfall getting soaking wet ... at 15, I was in 10th grade," she explained. When she snidely remarked that it was a "microcosm of how Bay's mind works," Kimmel claimed it was a microcosm of how every man's mind works. "Some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts," he admitted, grossly normalizing the sexualization of minors everywhere. Kimmel, that ain't it.
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