All of which only goes to show how wrong a first impression can be. The next day, trailed by car-loads of paparazzi, Megan Fox drove her white Mercedes 4×4 from her house in the hills to my hotel, the Sunset Marquis, in West Hollywood. We sat in the garden and talked – and talked, and talked. Initially, it was difficult to square this breathless conversationalist with the guarded glamourpuss from the shoot. Simon Pegg, who starred with Megan in the 2008 comedy, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, experienced a similar confustion after working with her for a short time. “I remember the first time we had a drink and chatted for a while,” Pegg says. “She absolutely floored me because whereas before there’d been this quiet wallflower who got nervous about doing scenes, suddenly there was the extraordinary, outspoken, complex, smart, experience person. She’s a contradiction, I think.