I hate the way April looks in this.
The turtles don't look great either, but April is a disaster. She's a reporter. Why does she look younger than the turtles and orders Pumpkin Spice lattes at Starbucks?
shareWell I was not surprised . Hollywood hates ginger people and it is now a given that if you have a real ginger character they will be replace with a black character with red dreadlock. Are you a girl with red hair looking for representation ? You are out of luck as the industry wants to eradicates all ginger characters from the face of the earth lol I'm just joking but really it is hilarious just how many red hair characters have been race swapped....
shareI heard aboutt he whole "Hollywood hates redheads" thing and I didn't believe it until I saw this:
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They're guilty!
Gingers are over represented in comics. They are overly used because the hair color gets lot of attention. But when doing action movies it is difficult to find that many ginger actors. Still does not explain why April was race swapped in this movie.
shareBut they also made April way too young too.
shareThat happened already since 20 years ago. It is because they want April to be the romantic interest of some of the Turtles, in the past it was Donatello and in the movie is Leo. Teenagers having a crush or a relationship with an adult wouldn't fly in nowadays world.
shareI think it's weird in general to make her a love interest. I mean, they're turtles. I think the original trilogy did it well where April is only playful with them.
shareEven that wouldn't fly nowadays. What if it is an adult male being playful with teenager girls?
I was more disappointed that the movie is still very childish (but not as childish as the animated series in the mid 00s). I thought this was an opportunity to go closer to the original comics.