14 DAY TRIAL // When the first trailer for the Michael Bay-produced “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” was released, all you could hear read online were comments about how weird the Turtles looked with human noses and human lips, and how sucky Megan Fox seemed to be as April O’Neil, from her short appearance in it.
In case you need a refresher, the second video embedded below is the trailer. Suffice it to say that what most amused pundits was the very fake way in which Megan fainted, which drove them to the conclusion that she must deliver an even worse performance than she did in “Transformers.”
That is not the case, Megan seemed to be telling HitFix at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, though we’re not sure she’s aware of the ridicule she was subjected to online because of the trailer. The first video below is her interview on the topic.
It’s not just the Turtles who are undergoing a change in this new feature film adaptation, the stunning actress says: April too is different from the comics, in that she’s more of a tough cookie. She’s no longer an ornament.
“[April] is an ambitious journalist that's not making it the way that she wants to be because people underestimate her,” Megan says, adding with sarcasm, “I couldn't possibly relate to that.”
She describes the journalist who’s scooping for a story and stumbles onto the biggest secret ever, the existence of the Mutant Ninja Turtles, as “a little angsty, not darker, but a little less happy-go-lucky super-sweet damsel-in-distress. Slightly grittier.”
Apparently, April is also tougher from a physical standpoint, in that she could kick major butt if she’d been allowed. Megan reveals that she actually shot a scene with The Foot Clan, in which April was seen actually engaging in combat, but that was left on the cutting room floor. So much for girl power.
Not all is lost, though. “I have a moment, Shredder and I have a moment. Maybe it's bad[expletive], you tell me when you see it,” Megan smiles.
Not to call her a liar or anything, but perhaps she’s not the most reliable source when it comes to how the characters she portrays are shown on film. Back when she was still a part of the “Transformers” franchise, before she and director Michael Bay had a huge falling out because she was acting like an insufferable diva (they kissed and made up in the meantime, don’t worry), she kept saying of her character that she was almost on par to that of Shia LaBeouf in terms of action scenes.
Instead, she just paraded on set looking pretty, while Bay shot her from behind or in slow motion, running. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s definitely not how male characters are portrayed.
So these things she says about April could be what she thinks we’ll see of her when the film comes out in August – because we honestly can’t believe Megan would deliberately lie to her fans.
