Transformers One: Keegan-Michael Key Reveals What Bumblebee Sounds Like in New Animated Film

Keegan-Michael Key has had an impressive past few years as a voice actor. Following a 2022 run that included Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and a reunion with Jordan Peele in Wendell & Wild, he spent this year visiting the Mushroom Kingdom as Toad in Illumination’s money-printing blockbuster The Super Mario Bros. Movie and he’s now back with the Chris Meledandri studio for Migration. Although it won’t be released until late 2024, Peele also booked his next, and arguably most exciting, high-profile animated role yet this year - as Bumblebee in Transformers One. During an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub for Migration, Key teased what to expect from his take on the iconic yellow Autobot in the starry prequel story opposite Chris Hemsworth’s Optimus Prime and Brian Tyree Henry’s Megatron. Unlike the Autobot leader, who is ditching the Australian accent for the role, Key will stay closer to his normal voice for the film. “For