While Ayo Edebiri may not feel confident enough to transform into everyone’s favorite weather-controlling mutant in a Marvel Studios film, she did recently portray another major comic book character. The actor brought high school journalist April O’Neil to life through several sessions in the recording booth for the animated movie “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.” In an interview with Collider, Edebiri shared that she admired how April was presented in the hit 2023 film, explaining that she particularly enjoyed the teenager’s intense desire to write an impressive piece of journalism.
“I felt like she just had so much agency and she was her own person. And had her own goals. And with that, knowing that, uses that or feels that in tandem with the turtles,” Edebiri said of the iconic TMNT reporter. “She has her own drive, she wants to crack a story, but she realizes throughout the journey of the movie, also how important friendship is with these little turtle freaks.”
