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- You actually get to
give Optimus an arc here.

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He's not fully the hero we know.

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So how early was that in

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and how did that kind of come about?

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- Yeah, the first script I got it

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it wasn't in there like Optimus
Prime was our noble prime

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and I just remember conversations

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with the team and they were like, you know

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in the past whenever we were
toe-ing the line with Optimus

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fans would get upset.

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So I was like, well, what
if we start off Prime

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as like someone who's just
trying to look out for Cybertron?

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I think that would stay true.
Like he would try to look

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out for his own people and get them home

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especially if he was just
coming to earth to seek refuge.

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And so he just kind of had
his myopic sort of perspective

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if you will, that was only
about him and his agenda

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and that created a prime
that we've never seen before.

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So that kind of had this
natural build in friction

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with Noah that I felt
like led to the prime

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that we all know and love
by the end of this film.

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