![]() somebody loses!" Leadership in a military situation, at least for a leader who is actually out there in the field watching his men fight and die, is like living in the first level of Hell itself, every decision torturing you, the whole world weighing down on you and you have to make choices at the speed of light, oftentimes with limited intel. Look at the motto on the original G1 Huffers' bio: "Nobody wins a war. That's a combat leaders role: Making the best you can of an absolutely f'd up situation. It's not about rushing in and kicking ass, you sometimes have to wait, pick your battles and carry the burden of having to decide what are "acceptable losses' and what or who must sacrificed in the short term to achieve your ultimate goal in the long term. The black and white decisions that you think Optimus should be making are no longer so "black and white", they carry the most dire of consequences. You have the lives of your troops in your hands and the lives of billions of innocents hanging on the razors edge of your every decision AND you are outnumbered. The simple fact of the matter is that Bayverse Optimus is more like what a Marine would be but what some of you are failing to take into account is that you are projecting your idealized versions onto a being stuck in "real world" situations. How quaint that y'all seem to think that Optimus should be portrayed on a God-like level and that you think Cullen is doing his brother a disservice by giving voice to Bays version. I want to be a positive influence rather than just fighting and sock, bang, boom!” “Now, maintaining those characteristics - courage, trustworthiness, integrity, loyalty - you’re responsible for something to the kids who watch Optimus Prime. I read the lines the way I could hear my brother doing it. “When I began the audition, his voice came right out. Be understanding - and calm,’” Cullen said. Don’t do all the bravado stuff and pretend to be tough. “My brother said, ‘Peter, be a real hero. Moreover, having based the characterization on his older brother, a decorated Marine Corps officer who served in Vietnam, the actor feels a sense of responsibility to the franchise’s faithful. “But I didn’t expect Michael to know what I knew about ‘Transformers.’ I was ready for anything.”Ĭontractually obligated to continue voicing Optimus in at least two more “Transformers” sequels, Cullen has no plans to retire his robot-in-disguise alter ego anytime soon. ![]() “It’s kind of surreal to audition for a character that you basically created,” said Cullen, who originated the Autobot’s stentorian voice in TV performances from 1984 to ‘87. ![]()
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