Chris Hemsworth & Brian Tyree Henry's 'Nerve-Racking' Transformers One Experience
Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry talk to Melissa Nathoo about voicing such iconic characters as Optimus Prime and Megatron in new animated movie, Transformers One. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Guys, good to see you as always, because I only get to hear you in this one, so it is nice to see you.
00:06We are all, I know, around a similar age, so I know you guys must have been playing.
00:10There's no way that you are near our age, really?
00:13Trust me, trust me, you little charmer, but yes.
00:17So I know that you were playing with Transformers when you were younger.
00:21Have either of you still got any of your Transformers?
00:24Because I know we've still got them in my household.
00:26Do you? Wow.
00:27Now I wish. My dog ate my Transformer and ripped it to pieces.
00:32I have a Transformer that I still don't know how to transform.
00:36Great.
00:36So 40 years of trying to transform, this Transformer lets you know how well made a toy that is.
00:43I was like, this should be the litmus test of whether or not you can go to law school.
00:47Like, instead of giving them the bar, make sure that they can transform.
00:50You didn't make it.
00:51You can't transform back, but you can't transform it to the...
00:54Either way, there's one...
00:56Some transformations are permanent.
00:58I love an origin story. Didn't know it, so loved it.
01:02Is it weird for you guys, though, hearing yourselves as such iconic characters?
01:07Always.
01:07Weird and kind of nerve-wracking, especially when you're first in the booth recording and it's like,
01:13am I aiming for what's been done before or is it an entirely new creation and invention?
01:19And it was kind of a fusion of that, that I used Peter Cullen
01:23and what he's done so brilliantly as a reference point and sort of an end point or a target.
01:28But mostly it was about informing the audience.
01:32This was a younger version of these characters before he was Optimus Prime.
01:35This is when he was...
01:37There was a lot more sort of spontaneity, enthusiasm, a sense of humor.
01:40And we see a lot of different range and colors in these characters,
01:44which I found really exciting the first time I read it.
01:46I think white audiences will love it.
01:48Yeah.
01:48And also we've never heard them young.
01:51At this point, they haven't been hardened.
01:53They haven't gone through becoming these two great leaders of these two...
01:59I don't want to say gangs.
02:02But you know, the Autobots and Decepticons are legendary,
02:06but they all go on to become leaders.
02:08So this is them before all of that.
02:09This is them pre-puberty, but still with deep voices.
02:13Yeah.
02:13That's right.
02:1620 years old, but in robot years, that's like 2 million years old.
02:20They can buy robot liquor.
02:23They're obviously starting off as best friends though, you two, as the characters in here.
02:28Yeah, definitely not best friends anymore.
02:30No.
02:30We were a couple of hours ago.
02:33So I'm curious.
02:34Obviously, Orion Pax had to get the right names rather than Optimus Prime.
02:37Orion Pax convinces D-16 to do the Iacon 5000...
02:43Yeah.
02:43What is it?
02:44God, have I got anything right?
02:45You're doing great.
02:46I'm curious.
02:47What would you convince the other to do?
02:50Oh, this is a dark path.
02:52What could you do?
02:52I could be inviting him to come to Australia.
02:54No, not to hang with him.
02:56Set up some bunk beds.
02:58No, and then he's got this bunk bed thing that I just...
03:00I don't want to really go into that.
03:01We could go camping.
03:02I don't have strong enough insurance to hang with him.
03:04Swim with Shadworth.
03:06See what I'm saying?
03:07He likes to jump off cliffs.
03:08He even had a show follow him doing stuff called Limitless.
03:13All right?
03:15What would I...
03:16No, there's no way.
03:17What would you convince him to do with you then?
03:19I think he...
03:20One, he can wear anything, right?
03:22One, he can wear anything, which is annoying.
03:24And so I want him to stretch the imagination.
03:28I was like, let's do some patterns.
03:30Oh, really?
03:30Is this what I did to you?
03:32You were trying to get...
03:32I put these on.
03:33I was a little nervous.
03:33Is it two patterns?
03:34No, it's perfect.
03:35It looks great on you.
03:37It's annoyingly so.
03:38And I'm like, come on.
03:39Fashion icon.
03:41That is the next move, is the fashion.
03:43Well, I'll be speaking to you on runway somewhere next time.
03:48We could have a little brand.
03:50You think?
03:50Brand.
03:52Guys, good luck with the film.
03:53Great.
03:54Lovely to see you both.
03:55It's a jump, what?