Seth Rogen Talks Remaking 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Starring Actual Teenagers (Exclusive)

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, but this time there's one major difference — the titular turtles are actually played by teenagers!«They're often middle-aged men doing Teenage-Voiced Mutant Ninja Turtles,» joked Seth Rogen when he sat down with ET's Will Marfuggi to talk about how a life-long love of the titular turtles led to writing and producing the latest installment in the long-running franchise.«I was really the target audience for the first iteration of all this stuff,» he explained, noting that he watched the cartoons and movies as a kid and was «obsessed» with the toys. «My dad bought like, a big box of used toys at a garage sale when I was a kid, and so I had those and I played with them so much.»However, Rogen admitted, «I always thought that the 'Teenage' part of it was weirdly under-explored, you know?»For his movie, the star added in more details about the turtles' desire to be just regular teens, and wanted the cast to be made up of voice actors that were closer in age to their characters than past iterations.star Brady Noon, 17, is Raphael, the bravest and strongest — but also most impulsive — of his brothers, who wears a red mask and fights with two pronged sai weapons.

Nicolas Cantu, 19, plays Leonardo, «the leader and the most honorable and responsible» of the turtles, who wears blue and wields two katana.

star Micah Abbey, 15, plays the «wise and resourceful» Donatello, who wears a purple mask and wields a bō staff. And Shamon Brown Jr., 19, is Michelangelo, the heart and charismatic soul of the family. «Mikey,» as his brothers call him, dons an orange mask and primarily fights with nunchucks, though he's wielded other weapons throughout the years.«It's always [been] the same kind of energy, from the beginning,» Brown Jr.