LOS ANGELES - Think of her as a transforming starlet. Megan Fox used to let her words get in the way of more honourable intentions, and she paid the price.

Last summer, the 24-year-old was trying to explain that her part in the Michael Bay-directed Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was more about the action and less about her acting when the self-deprecating whisper in a magazine became a Hollywood scream of discontent.

An offended Bay responded by not hiring Fox for the third Transformers blockbuster currently in production.

What does she have to say for herself now? Not much unless you admire her newly developed diplomatic way of avoiding another war of words when she's asked about retribution.

"I'm all full of candy canes and lollipops," says Fox during a recent interview for the revenge film Jonah Hex. "I don't even know what that means (retribution)."

That was her quasi-no-comment response to a question about payback as it relates to Jonah Hex and, passively, her squabble with Bay.

So much for headline fodder, although she's specific about playing a Wild West prostitute with a heart of ice in Jonah Hex, which opened on the weekend to a modest box office of $5.1 million US.