Bumblebee: Angela Bassett Interview
Academy Award nominee and all-around badass – especially in American Horror Story – Angela Bassett joins the Transformers film franchise by lending her voice to the Deception, Shatter, in Bumblebee. The movie takes place in 1987 and follows Bumblebee to Earth after narrowly surviving and escaping an epic battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Cybertron. But he’s far from safe at that point. Shatter and her sidekick Dropkick (voiced by Justin Theroux) are on his tail, and Shatter is particularly skilled when it comes to manipulating human beings in order to get more information on Bumblebee’s whereabouts.
With Bumblebee hitting theaters nationwide on December 21st, I got a little time to chat with Bassett about finding her Decepticon voice, working with director Travis Knight from opposite sides of the country, the big difference between voicing a character in this film compared to the other voice work she’s done before, being embraced by the Transformers and Marvel fan communities, and also what the term “Oscar movie” means to her. You can hear about all of that in this video interview.
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