In an interview with Pure Grain Audio, actor Ricardo Hoyos recalls his time with the filming of Transformers: Bumblebee.
Though seen as a minor character named Tripp, his role was originally much bigger with a greater character development arc; prior to leaving it all down on the cutting-room floor.
“[A]ctually we deleted the scene where, in the end, I kind of disown that group of [mean] girls. When I’m like “You know what? I’ve seen the true side of you girls. Not cool.” But, yeah, that still is played upon, even though that scene didn’t make it into the final cut. That was definitely the attitude that they were going for. I associate with this group of people that maybe doesn’t jive with everything that I am about. Which I think is just like your classic kind of high school thing. We all kind of go through that where maybe people aren’t as nice as we want them to be in high school to others. But he’s a redeemable character. He sees through that. He’s not bullied like the other girls.”
Mr. Hoyos had nice things to say about director Travis Knight:
“From that first audition that we did [Travis Knight] made me feel so comfortable. Like I said, as I was running out of that audition and, like, sprinting down the street and jumping around, which is not something I do. Usually, at auditions, there’s something awkward about it, or you wish you did something differently. Just from that day and every day on set, he really not only did a great job of making us all feel comfortable, but also communicating with incredible efficiency. Like I could really understand what he was going for. He had a clear vision in mind. He just had that comfortability to know what’s going on and know that there’s this very good communication going on which made for a really nice time on set. He’s great, he’s really great.”
You can read the full and lengthy interview at Pure Grain Audio, with new info on how various scenes were filmed.
BigRed
What has gotten desperate?
Afterburner
It's gotten to a really desperate level.
Decepticon Miner
Good thing they deleted this, how is it even important to the film.
transf0
What? His character is the definition of a typical jock.
PepsimusP
Cool with me that the boy angle was cut. Besides in my personal head canon, she\'s more attracted to the mean girl than the boy so (shrug)
AOEGalvatronRox
Thank god. Honestly, I feel like the human aspect of this film was dialed up to an 11 and just so…uninteresting except Charlie.
snoopcow
Dang. His name resembles some celebrity.
Sablebot
I think those things actually added some realism to the movie: Charlie, being an independent girl, would be the type of young Woman, who would definitely have admirers, as well as enemies-especially during the teenage years.
NathimusPrime
As much as I loved this movie, the standard voy crush and generic mean girls angel was pretty weak
The Mad Demobot
From what was talked about I feared that this would make Bumblebee another TF film where the CGI star takes a backseat AGAIN to the humans, which isn't what it's all about. Tripp and those kids were the most boring parts of the film since they're just there to remind us that they're dicks and Charlie had a bad childhood. Bumblebee kept it simple and made the Human/TF aspect about the same whether it be about Charlie and Bee or the villains trying to find them.
Digger
Yeah it’s a good choice. And it’s nice to know the stuff they removed was a conscious effort even though those scenes were and sound fun.
Music
It seems like they mostly made all the right decisions with this film and cutting out things that were not so necessary. Travis nails the pacing in Bumblebee. I wish the same kind of thought process was considered for things like the age of consent scene in AOE or Sam's long ass montage of him trying to find a job in DOTM.
Jalen Frisby
I would have like to see more of his character, his character didn't see to be like those typical jocks.
SilverOptimus
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