"Anything's possible"- Keegan-Michael Key's coy on Jordan Peele reunion

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The comic star hit the red carpet for the European Premiere of Transformers One, with Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson. Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Yes sir, how are you?

00:02I'm very well, thank you, very well indeed.

00:04A man who radiates joy, if I might be so bold.

00:07Say again?

00:08A man who radiates joy.

00:09Oh, who radiates joy, thank you.

00:10I'm guessing it doesn't take much to get a pep.

00:13Oh wow, okay.

00:14My word.

00:15As to the crowd here tonight, it doesn't take much to get a pep in your step on a night like tonight, I guess?

00:19No, no, you're getting fed by all these people behind, and by you guys, frankly.

00:23I've got to be quite honest.

00:25And also, I enjoy the UK so much, I just love being here, so everything about it.

00:28And the movie's good.

00:30It's always great when the movie's great.

00:32Yeah.

00:33Interestingly enough, Transformers seems to be a bit like the Mission Impossible series,

00:37where they make about 100 million of them, and then they start getting better towards the back end.

00:41The critics have loved it.

00:42Let's talk about the movie.

00:44The last time an animated Transformers movie came out in cinemas was like...

00:4786.

00:48Is this one less depressing than that?

00:50This is less depressing than that one.

00:52It's intense, but definitely less...

00:57That movie is ridiculous.

00:59I mean, that's a curveball.

01:01That was a curveball.

01:02And I just watched it recently again, and I was like,

01:05Oh God, forgot about that.

01:07I don't want to ruin anything, but if anybody wants to rent it and watch it...

01:11I forgot that Orson Welles was in that movie.

01:13Orson Welles did the voice of Unicron.

01:15And I thought this one was full of A-listers.

01:17The A-lister, right.

01:18The only other person they could have had in that movie was Laurence Olivier.

01:20Could you imagine if Laurence Olivier had been in that movie?

01:22Oh my God.

01:23And then a very young Judd Nelson played Hot Rod in that movie.

01:28Yes.

01:29One for the Breakfast Club fans out there.

01:31Now you've done a few animated movies in the past.

01:34When you're going into a booth, do you get less nervous the more of these that you do?

01:37Or do you go in there thinking, Oh, I'm going to have to come up with something new?

01:40I think I get more nervous because I've done enough where I always want to figure out,

01:44How do I differentiate this character from the last character I played?

01:47What's going to be in the timber of my voice?

01:49Am I going to try to make him sound like he's on helium?

01:51Is he going to be in the deepest register I can possibly go?

01:54I don't know what I'm going to do.

01:56And this one was actually very vulnerable and revealing because the director said,

01:59I want it to be you.

02:01I said, What do you need, Josh?

02:02What do you want for Bumblebee?

02:03And he went, I just want Keegan.

02:05I just want Keegan.

02:06So we made a kind of, I still got to get my twist in there a little bit.

02:10It's kind of like a higher pitched, more youthful me.

02:13But it's still me.

02:14And one disappointing thing about animated movies is that I don't imagine that you guys

02:18all get to be in there together at the same time.

02:20We don't.

02:21But does that mean it gives you a little free sort of excitement when you finally get to

02:24see the movie and you see you're up there with Scarlett and Brian and Hemsworth himself.

02:30It's like a new experience.

02:32The best part, one of the best parts of making an animated film is the first day of press.

02:37Because that's when you get to meet everybody.

02:39Because there are no set hangs.

02:40There's no set hangs.

02:41So I do really enjoy that.

02:42But the other thing I really enjoy is watching the progress of the animation.

02:47So you do your voice and it's against the scratch track.

02:50And the next time you do the same lines, you hear the other actor.

02:53And you go, oh that's what she's doing with it.

02:56Oh, I got some ideas.

02:58And then you hear two actors together and you go, oh wait, I'm going to bring this to it.

03:01It's so much fun to let it, that way they evolve.

03:04Yeah.

03:05And like you said at first, thank God it's a good movie.

03:07Because the first day of press when you think you've made a stinker, that must be awful.

03:11Biggest acting job of your career is when the movie's not good.

03:14Finally.

03:15I'm a big Kim Peele fan.

03:17And you must get this every time a movie comes out.

03:19I know you're both busy boys, but is there a chance?

03:22There's so many reboots.

03:23There's so many people coming back and celebrating the stuff we used to love.

03:27Can you give me a year when that's going to happen or what?

03:30There's always a chance.

03:31I wish I could give you a year.

03:33I've got to give Jordan a little more time to continue being the black Stanley Kubrick and do his thing.

03:39I kept saying, he's going to get this out of his system and then we'll get back together.

03:43That hasn't happened yet.

03:44So I wish I could give you a date, but not yet.

03:47But, you know, never say never.

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