Gimme a hug! Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry on fun fan interactions and Transformers One

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Look at how good his hair is.
Look at those curls.
What?
Compliments.
You have great hair.
For thousands of years, we have been at war.
But before, we were enemies.
We were like brothers.
You ready?
Always ready.
Let's punch in.
So, I've got to know, who of your friends or family
freaked out the most and there was going to be one
to find out you got on this movie?
My daughter.
Your daughter?
Yes.
When I got off the roll, I was a little apprehensive
and following Peter Cullen's footsteps.
We have one last hope.
This is Optimus Prime.
What new could we bring to the universe?
And my daughter said, Optimus Prime?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
You got to do it.
Hey, Darkwing.
My finger can transform.
Guess which one?
Allow me.
That's cool.
I haven't told my family.
I'd like them to discover it.
You know what I mean?
Because I don't know what they think I do for a living.
It seems like every time I do something,
they're surprised that it's like,
they're like, oh, you're in that?
I'm like, I told you months ago.
But like, so I choose to just not tell my family anything.
And they just go, oh, yeah, cool.
Yeah, they just show up in the movies and they're like,
oh, wait, he's in that?
Like, literally to this day, it's the same thing.
If we survive this, I'm going to kill you.
I accept those terms.
Do you guys ever get voice recognized?
Like you're at the till, you're at a supermarket?
It's happening a lot more now.
It's really weird.
I didn't think that anyone would ever recognize my voice.
Yesterday in the stateroom.
Okay.
I was in there with my trainer and kind of chatting.
Someone goes, Chris, is that you through the mist?
I was like, hello?
I didn't do that.
I was like, hello?
You know how many people would pay for that experience?
Hello?
Yeah, it's so crazy.
Now you're like, I'll be there at 5.30 tonight.
Do you get particularly odd director's notes
when you're recording lines for a movie like this?
Where they just go, okay, brilliant take.
We love it.
But could it be more robotic?
Yeah.
With our director though, what was really great is that
he would voice the other characters for us.
So that was fun.
He was cool.
He was good.
Like Josh would sometimes provide the voices of everybody else.
Like to hear him be Scarlett Johansson is truly wonderful.
It does have a nice ring to it.
He would need to pitch it a little bit more effeminate.
Yeah, it was nice.
Yeah.
You don't get that right to do that.
Wait, we have cogs.
We can transform now.
That's right.
Everyone ready?
I was born ready.
On three.
One.
Did you ever find yourselves doing like the physical movements as well?
There's some brilliant footage of one Bradley Cooper doing Rocket Raccoon.
I live for the simple things.
Like how much this is gonna hurt.
And he's sort of down on his knees.
Like he's really hunching.
And he's doing this.
And you go, dude, you don't.
They do that.
But it does help.
It does.
Especially if you're doing like the efforts and the fight scenes
and anything that has like, you know, you'd be out of breath.
How do we use these things?
I don't know.
Just try.
You ever tried to like act out of breath without actually being out of breath?
Guess what happens?
You hyperventilate and you collapse.
And so to prevent that, you're kind of jogging on the spot,
moving around, making all the silly noises.
And I'm always like, somebody is recording this somewhere
and is going to jump out of this closet and be like,
man, we can't believe we got you to do that.
I can't believe like you really didn't have to do this at all.
I have to ask about the breaths and efforts though,
because I'm fascinated.
They do them all at the end, right?
Yeah.
So you've done all the hard work, really.
And you're matching it to what you're seeing on screen.
Could you just embarrass yourself for an hour?
Yeah.
And also like, why can't you use efforts from any one of the other films where we've done?
Or somebody else's logged efforts.
Me and you breathing heavy can't sound that different.
That's what annoys me.
Like, oh, come on.
And they're like, we tried.
It just doesn't work.
I'm like, come on, man.
It's like, you can get an AI to do this.
You are going to regret saying that.
I don't know if I will.
I don't know if it's effort.
So you are now at the end of the press tour for this.
You've been with each other for a while now.
Yeah.
More or less.
Yeah.
What have you learned about each other?
No too much stuff that I know I got to take to the grave.
I know where somebody's bodies are buried.
Makes me want to go back and not have learned it.
I want to undiscover.
I learned that it is really easy to become codependent with Chris.
I was like, oh, well, this is a codependency that I just don't want to let go.
No, it's been fun.
It's crazy because we'd never even met.
Well, until the press tour.
Until we recorded the entire film as the best of friends and then the worst of enemies.
Yeah.
And then went, oh, hey, nice to meet you.
Yeah.
And now we're truly the best of friends.
And the worst of enemies.
And they synchronized.
You see that?
Yeah, we like to finish each other's sentences.
And it's really nice when we hug.
Is that what you're going to say?
Come on, give me a hug.
That's perfect.
You're definitely feeling very comfortable about all of this.
Yeah, look, I fully love it.
OK, let's wrap up with a very silly question.
But who has the best fan interaction story?
When you're out and about in the street or maybe you're at a comic con, who's got the best one?
Well, let's present them.
OK, I'll start with mine.
So we were in Sydney, you know, the home country of the god Hemsworth here.
And we were on the carpet and there were these girls.
I mean, like, I can't even explain the decibel of their screams, right?
And so Chris was ahead of me.
So I just ultimately was like, well, that's definitely for Chris.
And so they were holding up a sign and it was like, Straya loves Brian.
And I was like, you've got I was like, this can't be.
And it's them that that scream was coming.
But on the other side, it said, and Chris is OK, too.
But it was I had never experienced anything like that.
Like, it was really it was it was really amazing.
I had this I was at the airport one time and there was this kid dressed in a Thor costume
running around kicking things and punching things, a little hammer and stuff.
And his mom was like, hey, Josh, come here.
Look, it's Thor.
It's like they kept fighting.
She's not just come over here.
Look, it's Thor.
He's like, get off me.
It's like, this is Thor.
He's like, no, it's not.
Like threw his hammer at my leg and I was like, OK, OK, OK.
And I during that interaction was like, it's me.
And then I was like, oh, no, he doesn't want to see me out of costume.
Yeah, no.
And maybe he doesn't even know me as Thor.
Maybe it's the cartoon, maybe.
And so, yeah, it's a very grounding moment, you know.
I was about to say that has humbled you in a way.
Heartbreaking.
And my breaking of the knee as well.
Oh, my God.
He was.
Oh, no, that's hilarious.
I couldn't get that past security.
Nothing can break you.
I would love it if the kid was secretly super strong.
And it's like, dude, right?
Not that.
No.
Oh, my God.
Guys, congratulations.
You've completed it.
Oh, wow.
You're done.
Wow.
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