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Hailee Steinfeld confirms part in Transformers spin-off

Hailee Steinfeld has told Newsbeat she’s got a part in the upcoming Transformers spin-off movie, Bumblebee.

It’s expected next year and, from the title, it’s probably safe to assume it revolves around the yellow VW Beetle bot from the main films. Other than that, details are sparse – but Hailee says filming is starting “very soon”. The fifth instalment in the franchise’s central storyline, Transformers: The Last Knight, is due out on 22 June.

“I am so excited I’m doing the spin-off, it’s starting very soon,” the 20-year-old actress and singer told Newsbeat.

“It’s crazy to think about. I’m a big fan of the Transformers movies and I can’t believe I am going to be in a version of them.”

Hailee Steinfeld made her name in the Coen Brothers western True Grit when she was just 13. Her performance earned her an Oscar nomination and a Bafta award.

Since then she’s appeared in films such as Pitch Perfect 2 and the Edge of Seventeen. As well as acting, she’s also a singer. She released her debut album, Haiz, last year. On top of all this, she’s good mates with Taylor Swift and was once rumoured to be dating Justin Bieber.

“I will be shooting Bumblebee in the States and working on the music at the same time. So we will see how that all pans out,” she says.

“But this movie is really something special. It has a great storyline and this character that I play, who you will soon meet, is really special. So I’m very excited for people to see it.”

We don’t know what part she’ll be playing in Bumblebee yet. We do know that animator Travis Knight is due to direct. It’ll be the first time he’s taken on a live action film.

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Hailee Steinfeld says Manchester terror attack has made her more ‘aware’

Hailee performed at Wembley Stadium over the weekend alongside the likes of Niall Horan, Little Mix and Bruno Mars, but opened up about the recent incident in Manchester which killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk backstage at the Capital Summertime Ball about the attack, Hailee said: ‘It has and it hasn’t [affected her], I mean obviously myself and the world is way more aware.

‘But it in no way stops me from doing what I love, I look at how 80,000 people are here today, and they’re all here for one reason, and that’s to be together, to be happy and to let go for a while.’

She continued: ‘To me that’s one of the most special things anybody could ever experience, so I’m incredibly honored to be playing tonight, and other stadiums in the world in front of all these beautiful faces.’

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Hailee Steinfeld in Talks to Star in ‘Transformers’ Spinoff ‘Bumblebee’

Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star in Paramount’s Transformers spinoff Bumblebee.

Travis Knight, who directed the stop-motion movie Kubo and the Two Strings, is helming the project.

Bumblebee is the yellow and black striped Autobot that appears as one of the main characters in the Transformers film series.

Plot details are being kept on the dark side of the moon, but it is known that Steinfeld will play a tomboy who also holds a job as a mechanic after school. Christina Hodson (Shut In) wrote the script.

The movie project is the first spinoff in what the studio hopes will be a Transformers Cinematic Universe that will include prequels and offshoots from a line of movies that have generated over $3.7 billion worldwide — with the latest one, Transformers: The Last Knight, set to hit theaters June 23.

Bumblebee is slated for a June 8, 2018, release.

Steinfeld made her feature debut in Joel and Ethan Coen’s 2010 remake of True Grit, netting her an Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role. More recently, the actress, who is also enjoying a thriving singing career, appeared in Pitch Perfect 2 and has Pitch Perfect 3 wrapped, and last year gained strong notices for her performance in teen drama Edge of Seventeen.

Steinfeld is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein.

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Selena Gomez Talks Hailee Steinfeld

Selena saying “Most Girls” by Hailee Steinfeld, “Crying in the Club” by Camila Cabello & “Malibu” by Miley Cyrus are her favorite songs right now: