Matthew Mars­den plays a lead role in Revenge of the Fallen as SAS Gra­ham, this is his first inter­view since that announce­ment. The inter­view is all rather generic — giv­ing away no secrets or even lit­tle teasers, very lit­tle prob­ing done by the interviewer.

“I’m part of a multi-national force. What’s going on right now is I’m a British Spe­cial Forces offi­cer that’s attached to Lennox’s team. Well, there’s two of us ini­tially. And we’re bat­tling the bad guys.”

[…]

I just try to be real. My char­ac­ter is not an amus­ing char­ac­ter. He’s a sol­dier, so all the stuff that I did is very much rooted in real­ity and what I know from the expe­ri­ences of my friends [who are in the mil­i­tary]. So, it’s just very real and noth­ing über-spectacular.

We went to Penn­syl­va­nia and shot at the Beth­le­hem Steel Plant, which was really amaz­ing. We had this scene where it’s, like, ‘That’s where he is!’ and you have to shoot at him. ‘He’s going that way!’ It’s quite a far dis­tance away, so we had to use a laser pointer [to stand in for the robot]. It’s all fun; I love that stuff.

There are bad guys there and we have to go and get them. That’s basi­cally it.”

[On Shia and Megan Fox]

“They’re work­ing with the Auto­bots, [so] they’re def­i­nitely going to know some of the strengths and weak­nesses of dif­fer­ent robots. So, if they’re work­ing together with an alien life-form, which they didn’t ini­tially, then obvi­ously they’re going to know more. In the first one, they were actu­ally find­ing out what they were because they didn’t know. … Now they’re aware of what they are, and we’re part of the task force specif­i­cally to go and deal with them. … I just know that I’ve got a big chunk to come, and I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of action in it.”