Why won’t the first generation Pink Ranger come back for the reunion?

Recently, Netflix released the trailer for the special “Might Morphin Power Rangers: Now and Forever”. The production will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series and will promote a reunion between the different generations of Rangers. Check out the trailer!

Despite being a much-awaited reunion by fans, unfortunately, it will not be complete. The production will feature only two members of the first generation of the Rangers, he being David Yost (Billy the Blue Ranger) and walter jones (Zack the Black Ranger). As a result, stars from other generations were invited to participate in this historic moment, and among them we have Karan Ashley (Aisha, the Yellow Ranger), Steve Cardenas (Rocky the Red Ranger) and Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam, The Black Ranger), who are second generation. Catherine Sutherland (Kat, the Pink Ranger) of the third generation will also be present.

With the repercussion of the reunion, the actress Amy Jo Johnson, who was the first Pink Ranger, decided to explain the reason for her absence from the special. She commented on her Twitter:

For everyone’s record, I never said ‘no’. I just didn’t say ‘yes’ to what they were offering me. But we have other fun things coming! And I look forward to seeing my friends kick ass.”

From this, some fans understood that the actress refused the invitation to participate in the production due to the low value of the cache offered to her. She denied the assumption and recalled the decision to Jason David Frankwho lived Tommy, the Green Ranger who later became white.

Please stop saying I didn’t attend the meeting because of money. It simply isn’t true. Maybe I just didn’t want to wear a leotard in my 50s. Or maybe he didn’t want to spend a month in New Zealand. Jason David Frank and I chose not to do the special for our own reasons. The production was shot before he died.”

As the actress cites in her tweet, jason passed away in 2022 and the feature was recorded in 2021, which shows that he chose not to participate in the feature, as well as Amy. It is worth remembering that the actor had already announced years before that he was retiring from the franchise, after several appearances in small specials over the years. One of the reasons he walked away from the character was that he no longer wanted to go through the whole process of covering his tattoos with makeup.

Another member who was left out of the reunion is Austin St. John, who lived Jason, the Red Ranger. His absence is due to accusations of fraud with the US government. In fact, the original quintet would never be complete, because, Thuy Trangwho played Trini, the Yellow Ranger, died in 2001.

“Might Morphin Power Rangers: Now and Forever” is scheduled to premiere on April 19 on Netflix and will show the return of a great threat from the past, which will make the Rangers once again called “to be the heroes the world needs”. needs”, words of the creators themselves.