'Bumblebee' writer Christina Hodson never really left the '80s behind
by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Christina Hodson spent so much time air drumming to music by the Smiths when she was younger that her New Year's resolution in 2002 was to stop. She didn't.
It's a love that still runs so deep that asking the "Bumblebee" screenwriter to pick her favorite Smiths songs could be considered an act of cruelty.
Hodson has passed this love for the British alternative band along to Charlie, a wise beyond her years teenage girl (played by Hailee Steinfeld) who discovers that the beat-up car she has recently salvaged is actually an alien robot.
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