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Dominique Fishbackis recalling a stunt gone awry while filming the newTransformersmovie.
At the New York City premiere ofTransformers: Rise of the Beastson Monday, Fishback, 32, described closely avoiding an accident on set of the new movie after telling PEOPLE that she tried to perform as many of her own stunts as the production would allow.
“And I fell back like this,” Fishback continues, as she pantomimed falling backward. “Anthony [Ramos]was like, ‘Are you okay!’ "
When asked whether the take wound up being used for the final film, Fishback says the moment didn’t make it to screen.
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“No, it’s not in there,” she tells PEOPLE. “But the guy had to grab the rope to make sure I didn’t fall. So it could have been very bad.”
Brooklyn natives Fishback and Ramos, 31, costar in the newTransformersmovie, which transplants the live-action franchise to 1990s Brooklyn as a sequel to 2018’sBumblebee, which was set in the ’80s.
“I’m from Eastern New York specifically, and my character gets to be from Brooklyn, East New York. And Anthony’s character gets to be from Bushwick like him,” Fishback tells PEOPLE of the pair getting to represent their hometowns onscreen. “So not only is it special to do it here and to represent characters from Brooklyn, but specifically from our neighborhood. Our family and friends are here and I know that when they hear it, they’re going to go crazy.”
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The film brings back franchise favorites Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and Bumblebee, who have appeared in each of the seven live-actionTransformersfilms, as new human cast members Ramos and Fishback meet the Autobots, and a “whole new faction of Transformer — the Maximals — to join them as allies in the existing battle for earth,” per an official synopsis.
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Rise of the Beasts' voice cast featuresMichelle Yeoh,Pete Davidson,Peter Dinklage,Michaela Jaé RodriguezandRon Perlmanas new character Optimus Primal, who takes on the appearance of a gorilla.
Paramount Pictures previously announced in February 2022 that the new movie will make up thefirst part of a planned trilogy. The studio announced in April that Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Brian Tyree Henry will star in voice roles for a separate animated prequel that tackles the origins of the rivalry between the franchise’s main factions, the Autobots and Decepticons, currently in production, according toVariety.
Transformers: Rise of the Beastsreleases in theaters June 9.
source: people.com
