Hailee: 'Bumblebee' tested my imagination
Hailee Steinfeld's bond with autobot 'Bumblebee' is the highlight of the film but the actor says she found it hard to emote in front of the camera with her absent co-star. All Seinfeld had was a "tennis ball and a stick" to respond to while enacting her scenes as Charlie Watson, a headstrong misfit teenager who eventually befriends the alien robot, B-127 and later renames him as 'Bumblebee'.
'Bumblebee' was created through the help of visual effects. "It was a very strange experience, unlike anything I've ever done- making a film where it feels like 90 per cent of it is with something that is not physically there. And the weirdest part was that it wasn't like I was in front of a green screen and had nothing around me.
