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Fox glances down at her mug; she has run out of tea, and the tables of baubles and rolling racks around us have disappeared. She will try to get that new tattoo this evening, and then is due back on set early the next morning. Shortly after Passion Play wraps, she will return to green-screen acting in Transformers 3. Fox plans to work as much as she can; these are, after all, her prime years, and with two other films in the can and her name attached to the Mexican drug-smuggling thriller—and star vehicle—The Crossing, she seems acutely aware of the need to strike while the offers are hot. “I wasn’t born with a talent for doing this,” she says. “I just was born with a need to do it.”
