Megan Fox Spotted With Original April O'Neil On Set Of TMNT 2

The upcoming sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 is going to have a double dose of April O'Neils.

Judith Hoag, who originated the live-action role of the intrepid reporter (and the half-shells’ closest human ally) in the 1990 movie version, was photographed on the film’s New York City set alongside current April O'Neil, Megan Fox. And by all indications Hoag will be making a cameo in the movie.

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It’s unknown at this point who Hoag will be playing, but from the looks of these shots (above and below), we would guess that she’s still in the media business — perhaps a rival reporter, or maybe a tightly wound producer giving Fox’s free-spirited April fits. Hey, just look at the contrasts in wardrobe.

Variety caught up with Hoag last August, as the first installment of the rebooted Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was hitting theaters. The actress, who can currently be seen on ABC’s TV hit Nashville, talked about being replaced (by Paige Turco) in two sequels that spawned from the original '90 film. She believes it’s because she complained about the film’s violence. “Everybody was beating everybody up,” she said. “I thought the movie suffered because of that. It was something I spoke to the producers about, I think they thought I was too demanding, and moved on.”

Hoag didn’t seem the least bit bitter: “I will see it out of curiosity,” she said of 2014’s relaunch, which, like the 1990 version, became a major box-office hit, racking up almost $200 million in the U.S. alone. “You want the franchise to keep going forward and do well.”

Cameos from actors in the reboots of their own movies can be a little tricky. On one hand there are those that can still make logical sense within their worlds, like the appearance of Leonard Nimoy in a time-warping Star Trek plot, or Chevy Chase appearing as Clark Griswold to pass the figurative baton off to Ed Helms (as his grown-up son, Rusty) in the upcoming Vacation relaunch. Then there are those that are purely intended as a winks and nods, like when both Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum showed up in Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of their 1962 classic, Cape Fear.

As George Miller recently told us when asked why Mel Gibson didn’t cameo in this week’s Mad Max: Fury Road, “We want people to be immersed in this movie… To suddenly have Mad Max appear would be like having Sean Connery appear in a Daniel Craig Bond [movie].” By the same token, though, Miller had Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the original Mad Max trilogy, return in a new role in Fury Road.

Something tells us Turtles fans aren’t going to complain about the logic of it all, though. After all this is a movie about gigantic talking turtles who eat pizza, crack jokes, rap, and practice martial arts.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 opens June 3, 2016.