Megan Fox Reveals She Had a Crush on a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Character

As a kid, Megan Fox didn't fantasize
about dating boy band members or
movie stars. Instead, the future actress
dreamed about romancing a talking
turtle--of the mutant ninja variety, of
course.
"Everyone thinks this is really weird, but
little girls have crushes on animated
characters, and my first crush was
Michaelangelo," Fox says of the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles character, with
whom she co-stars in an upcoming
movie. "They were my favorite movies
as a kid. That was my thing. Way, way
more so than Star Wars or in later years,
still more than Lord of the Rings. It was
always Ninja Turtles."
Fox was "so excited" to work with her
childhood crush on the live-action
comedy, in theaters Aug. 8.
To play TV reporter April O'Neil, Fox got
a mane makeover. "We went through
many shades of red, and then we toned
it down to a deep auburn," the 28-year-
old brunette tells MTV of dyeing her hair
in to bring the iconic character to life.
"But when they color time the movie it
will be more red, FYI."
Meanwhile, Fox's co-star Will Arnett says
he's relieved that director Jonathan
Liebesman and producer Michael Bay
have honored the original franchise.
"There is time in the sewers. There is
time in the lair. There's all of it," the
former Up All Night star says of the
locations. "I think we've done a really
good job in staying true to the
mythology and then telling a new story,
telling a new version."