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.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter and Variety during the premiere of Laika’s latest movie; The Missing Link, director Travis Knight expressed his interest to direct another Transformers Live Action Movie.

“I viewed the film as a self-contained thing. Every film that I’ve ever done, I’ve viewed it as, “This is a statement about this. These are these characters. This is our point of view and on this story.” Once it’s done, it’s done. So, I tend to not think about sequels or where the story goes beyond that in terms of actually producing something. However, every single thing I’ve done, these characters, they reside in your mind and imagination. You live and breathe them for so long. You always imagine their lives and their stories outside of the confines of the pictures. What happened in their life before? What happens in their life after? You actually create these stories even though they never make it into the movie. So, in my mind, I have all kinds of ideas for where Charlie goes from here; where Bumblebee goes from here; where Optimus Prime goes from here. In my mind I’ve already made those movies on some level. Like you say, if the stars align, would I tell another story in this universe? I mean, I love these characters, so it’d be a thrill to be able to tell a different kind of story in this universe. Time will tell.”

You can find the full interview at THR and check out a short video, after the jump.

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Sitting down with Moviefone for an interview, director Travis Knight explains how Transformers: Bumblebee, which started off as a prequel, ended up with reboot elements; contradicting previous Transformers movies.

“Moviefone: What about the mythology the “Transformers” films had already established? This is the first time Bumblebee has been on earth and just one movie earlier we saw him killing Nazis in World War II. What was your thinking behind wiping the slate clean?

Travis Knight: Continuity is very important to me, as is being consistent. And so I did take a good hard look at the films that had been done in the past. And as we were thinking about this movie, I still wanted to move to be self-contained. I didn’t presuppose any familiarity with the films or the franchise. I wanted someone who wouldn’t know anything about the Transformers to be able to sit in the theater to watch this movie and have a good time and enjoy the movie, not knowing anything about the transformers. But that said, it was important to me that if we were living within this universe and this mythology that it be consistent. At some point we realized that we were essentially boxing ourselves into a corner — that we were, we were making choices that weren’t really in the best interest of the film if we were trying to kind of sit within the overall mythology of the franchise.

Once I talked through some of these things with the producers and with the folks at Paramount, at some point we made the decision that this was the story that we’re telling and we have to talk the best where we can. And if that means that we essentially are restarting the franchise and that means we’re rebooting these characters and they were taking aspects of the franchise and putting a different prism on it, then that’s what we had to do. And ultimately it was a liberating choice because then we weren’t cornered into these decisions based on what had come before. We could tell our own story. And that that was the aspect of that.”

Mr. Knight had to do what he thought was the best move to go forward, even if it meant rebooting certain elements. How it will impact future movies is up in the air right now. Perhaps, this discussion may go on until the next movie. But for the time being, it’s all up to viewers to decide where the movie will fit in.

With this interview, now you know… and knowing is half the battle.

Director Travis Knight sat down with ComicBook.com to explain why Charlie Watson and Bumblebee had to part ways. It is clear that he has put a lot of thought and effort into that particular scene which is actually more than meets the eye. It was more than just a simple ‘goodbye’.

“[The movie] had a beginning, it had a middle and an end and it had proper resolution. And so as I was charting the relationship between these two character there was no other way for it to end. It had to end with them parting.

It’s about one of those relationships, one of those life changing relationships that where someone comes into your orbit and fundamentally changes your trajectory moving forward. And it was, he has his mission to do and he has to go do it and she has her life and she has to live and she has to go live it. And they change each others lives, but then they had to part and that was the story that I was telling.

And so even though I love seeing them together, and I was sad when they had to part as well. It was critical for what this movie was.”

Though they went their separate ways, the director thinks that a future movie, with a right script, can bring them back together.

“I’m sure a creative mind could come up with a way to bring them back together, but it was always incredibly important to me that this film, even though it sits within a larger context of mythology and comics and cartoons and films, that this film be self contained that it lives on its own.”

Speaking to Slash Film this week, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura stated that they are not working on a sequel to Transformers: The Last Knight. He also mentioned that director Michael Bay will not return to the director’s chair for the franchise.

For the next Transformers are you looking for new directors or hoping you can still make Michael Bay an offer?

I think Bay has made it really clear that he loved what he did and he’s not doing anymore. So I think the answer is we’re writing a script. At that point, once we get script we have a strong belief in, then we’ll begin to debate that. Michael’s made it really clear that he didn’t want to do it. I don’t blame him. He spent a hell of a lot, a decade of his life, shooting them.

Are you developing a script that picks up where The Last Knight left off?

No.