Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-8864605-20140426190319/@comment-995426-20150903072011

You know, speaking of April casting, I've thought for a long time that it would be interesting to see April cast with a black or Latina actress. I'd heard somewhere that April's appearance was originally inspired by a multi-ethnic woman that Kevin Eastman once dated, though I don't know if that's true or not. Still, April's appearance in early Mirage volume 1 could run the gamut of ambiguous ethnic appearances, which impressed upon me that her appearance and background are fairly flexible. If I'd never heard of "April O'Neil" before, I could totally believe that someone with that name could belong to an Afro-Latina-Irish-American woman living in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Back in the 1990s, someone like a younger could have easily played her role. :)