Inside Rebecca Ferguson and Megan Fox’s Canceled Series as New Details Emerge
As Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man nears release, Rebecca Ferguson revisits Ocean Ave., the early-2000s Swedish-American daytime soap she co-starred in with Megan Fox, dropping fresh details from the canceled series.
Rebecca Ferguson has been out talking up her new movie, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, and somehow we ended up taking a detour to one of the odder entries on her resume: Ocean Ave., a canceled Swedish-American daytime soap from the early 2000s that just so happened to also feature a pre-fame Megan Fox. Yes, a Swedish daytime series shot in Miami Beach. The whole thing is wonderfully bizarre.
From Dawson's Creek dreams to... something else
On Josh Horowitz's Happy Sad Confused podcast, Ferguson — Mission: Impossible standout and Golden Globe nominee — revisited the show with a mix of affection and a raised eyebrow. She remembered early promises that it would be a glossy teen drama in the Dawson's Creek lane, and then reality arrived.
'It turned into a pretty bad soap opera, to like one of those really bad porn films, right? You know, bad lighting, bad writing.'
Horowitz joked that there should be a documentary chronicling the whole affair. Ferguson volleyed back without missing a beat:
'There should be, and thank God there isn't.'
Miami Beach, 17, and the Megan Fox factor
Ferguson was 17 and living in Miami Beach during the shoot. She says the experience was a hoot and fully one of those career chapters you keep for the stories. Megan Fox was on the show too, though they did not really mix. Ferguson ran with the Swedish contingent; Fox, then younger and long before Transformers-level fame, moved in a different circle. For what it’s worth: Fox is now 40, Ferguson is 42.
Will Ocean Ave. ever come back?
Horowitz floated the idea of a reboot. Ferguson shut that down with a smile.
'Absolutely not.'
Ocean Ave. quick file
- Format and run: Daytime soap opera that aired on Sweden's TV4 in the early 2000s; production took place in Miami Beach, Florida.
- Ferguson’s stint: Cast at 17, living in Miami Beach during the series.
- Notable cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Megan Fox, Timothy Adams, Victoria Jackson, Jessica Sutta, and Gwendolyn Osborne.
It started with teen-drama ambitions, filmed under the Florida sun for Swedish daytime TV, and ended up a cult curiosity. Ferguson seems perfectly happy to leave it exactly there — as an entertaining war story from the early days, nothing more, nothing less.