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Megan Fox slams Hollywood's casting couch culture

LONDON: Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has slammed Hollywood's casting couch culture, alleging that several leading film directors have tried to bed her since she found fame. The "T

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LONDON: Model-turned-actress Megan Fox has slammed Hollywood's casting couch culture, alleging that several leading film directors have tried to bed her since she found fame.

The "Transformers" beauty has attended a number of meetings with top moviemakers to discuss potential roles but was shocked when they made moves on her during the interviews and she immediately turned them down, reports contantusic.com.

"Any casting couch I've experienced has been since I've become famous. It's really so heartbreaking. Some of these people are like Hollywood legends," she said, refusing to take any names.

"You think you're going to meet them and you're so excited, like, 'I can't believe this person wants to have a conversation with me' and you get there and you realise that's not what they want at all. It's happened a lot this year actually," she added.

Model-turned-actress Megan Fox feels actors are like prostitutes because they are paid to feign attraction and love on screen.

Fox, who is working opposite Shia LaBeuof's in the movie "Transformers", feels reluctant on shooting intimate scenes, because she doesn't like the idea of people paying to watch her faking emotions on screen, reported contactmusic.com.

She said: "When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross," she added.

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