Megan Fox Talks 'Hot' Mo-Cap Actors Playing Turtles, Says She Objected to Them Killing People in First Movie
Considering how far performance-capture tech has come in the last decade, it’s easy to forget there are human actors creating all the movements behind CGI characters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in films like their new sequel, Out of the Shadows.
Megan Fox, who reprises her role of Turtle ally April O'Neil, doesn’t think working opposite men in dotted-up suits is the least bit weird. “They’re super-hot guys,” Fox told Yahoo Movies at the film’s recent Los Angeles press day (watch above). "So I don’t see those dots or those suits. They’re Spandex suits, by the way. So it ain’t a bad situation.“
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Fox is famously a huge fan of the Turtles — though don’t call her a "Turtle Head,” as we learned rather unfortunately — and said her mo-cap castmates (Noel Fisher, Alan Ritchson, Jeremy Howard, and Pete Ploszek) shape most of what you see on screen when it comes to the personalities of Michaelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo, respectively.
But she will still chime in with creative input. “I speak up if I feel something’s really out of character, if they have the characters doing something that I think they would never do,” she said. “In the first one [2014’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles], they were, like, killing people. I was like, 'Turtles can’t kill people. That’s not what they do. That’s not what Ninja Turtles do. They bonk the bad guy on the head, and then they get away.’”
Look for some serious head-bonking when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows opens in theaters June 3.
Watch the trailer:
