Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen discusses his Michael Bay audition

Peter Cullen, the original voice of Optimus Prime talks about his audition for Michael Bay, and getting the part of Optimus Prime once again for the live-action Transformers films.

[@bradleymayse]

In the next live action Transformers, I would love to see Peter do a cameo as a trucker or something like that.

[@StryderK]

Driving the 18 wheeler that would become optimus. He transforms and meet his own voice actor... that would be the ultimate shout out.

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

That would be actually crazy! But that will happen in Five Nights In The Auto-Con Factory which is a future game and there will be a scene where Peter Cullen got lost in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA and then he encountered G1 Optimus Prime, G1 Catimus Prime, TF5 Optimus Prime and Optimus Sun Aria Prime, then they all introduced each other to each other. *Optimus Sun Aria Prime and G1 Catimus Prime both can't transform unless they use magic and magically transform into any other living being such as a cat or a dog or a wolf or a tiger or a regular human, Optimus Sun Aria Prime is a Human-Autobot-Decepticon while G1 Catimus Prime is a human-Cybertronian. So that explains it...*

[@Luka1180]

Agreed. And he needs to talk to Prime. Like, pull up in his truck, Prime's window is down. Then Peter talks to him, and when Prime answers he just figures it's coming from inside the truck, through the window. Could be the funniest shit ever.

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

@@Luka1180 LOL! if I saw that, I'd be like "my brother is talking to himself or a truck. Welp. I am just ignore that and listen to Transform by DivaMoon.. since DivaMoon is my own fanmade splatoon duo band creation and I made the song "Transform" so that explains it."

[@Karmakamilia]

The Stan Lee of Transformers movies.

[@Houseless_socialist]

"Michael Bay didn't know anything about Transformers..." AND, IT SHOWED!

[@Luka1180]

10000000000000000%

[@grimlock8155]

Truth. Pure truth.

[@frankielasvegas5756]

Or Ninja Turtles.

[@sonchoydas]

But he showed him more respect than Netflix!

[@transfo47]

Cringe. Literally made it a MCU level franchise.

[@desktopshorts7411]

A lot of us here owe this man a huge portion of our childhood’s, and for his portrayal of leadership & nobility. Optimus is one of those rare characters where he’s defined, in a major way, by his voice. There could never be another one like him. Love ya right back, Pete. Thanks for the awesome childhood memories.

[@Jammil2477]

Conor Doyle he may be your generation, but Cullens voice through Optimus Prime is resonated throughout history. You’ve got Optimus Prime, but you have had Clint Eastwood, Thatcher, the Queen, Churchill, Jimmy Stewart, Hanks, Washington, Freeman and many more than I can count in the last 50 yrs alone. While Cullen does a fantastic job, he is scripted. He does the script justice through his own personality. It’s a multifaceted act of ability you see through the lens, which resonates in folk. That’s cinema magic.

[@shauntempley9757]

@@Jammil2477 Except Peter Cullen taps the creative imagination of what a noble leader means, which is why he and his character resonates so much. We have the mythological idea of what a noble leader means and that is King Arthur, which is why he still talked about hundreds of years later. Real life is far tougher to define what a noble leader means, since there are a lot of people that dislike all of the names you have listed that were real life world leaders. For one person that has had a peaceful life, there exists one person that has had the opposite. That life is represented by Prime's legendary foe, Megatron.

[@zoebrugg7594]

Same. He's a sweetheart.

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

I had heard something is wrong with my brother when I called him on the phone and he said "WHY THE FUDGE ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT FRANK WELKER WHILE YOU'RE SOMEHOW PREGNANT WITH FRANK WELKER'S CHILD? WHY THE FUDGE ARE YOU CALLING ME TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THESE THINGS? WHO ARE YOU?!?!?!?" then I started crying and I said "Peter, I am your older brother Henry Laurence Cullen Jr. Don't you recognize me???" Then Peter Cullen said "GO BACK TO YOUR GRAVE, LARRY! BE DEAD AND GONE!" Then I yelled so super loud into the phone and that he had to move the phone away from his face and ears and what I said is "PETER! DON'T BE RUDE LIKE THAT TO ME!!!! NOW I AM CURRENTLY YELLING AT YOU AND I AM GETTING MY DRAGONS VERY CONCERNED AND THINGS AREN'T ALRIGHT AND WHAT THE FUDGE IS WRONG WITH YOU NOW, PETER?!?!?!?!?!?!?" Then Peter Cullen hanged up on the phone and I also hanged up... *I was literally triggered to the point where my hair somehow turned into flames and then my sea dragon had to put out the fire on my head and then my dragons calmed me down along with the help from my friends and the 8 cats that 1 of my friends has in her house.... *I WAS LITERALLY SAD AND CRYING BECAUSE MY BROTHER FORGOT ME SO MUCH THAT HE DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER ME AND RECOGNIZE ME!*

[@zoebrugg7594]

@@LarryMoonlink3892 Okay.

[@angiev.5132]

3:48 my heart exploded louder than any Bayformers explosion! 😭 Optimus saying he loves his human fans!

[@commandersoundwave2845]

Why did I imagine Optimus Prime flirting with humans when I read the ending of your comment?... Why did I imagine a pink heart emoji exploding into pink ink splatters all over the place when I read the beginning of your comment????

[@MMAisTHEbestSPORT08]

@@commandersoundwave2845 VIVIAN.... YOU LOOK SO BEAUTIFUL, I CAN SATISFY YOU MORE THAN CADE Vivian: How big? Optimus: AS TALL AS CADE HIMSELF

[@commandersoundwave2845]

@@MMAisTHEbestSPORT08 f5ohee57eu5eut

[@MMAisTHEbestSPORT08]

@@commandersoundwave2845 wut

[@commandersoundwave2845]

@@MMAisTHEbestSPORT08 I had a stroke. Sorry.

[@rickyrackey7930]

Peter Cullen is like that one Grandpa you look for guidance.

[@halleyangel1706]

Peter Cullen and Frank Welker seem like genuine fun loving guys. You can tell Cullen does it with such a passion, because Optimus Prime is based on his now passed brother who was a veteran. Which I feel is such a sweet gesture.

[@michaelnally2841]

In fact his brother suggested when auditioning focus on playing Optimus as a leader not a robot.

[@halleyangel1706]

@Michael Nally Which is what made Optimus Prime who he was. I just wish others that do Optimus voice recall what it was about. On a documentary called Toys that made us. That explains why that's important

[@NaTive219]

Peter’s voice acting actually led me to believe Optimus could be real If Optimus was actually real I would be happy 3:48 Peter: I love you guys! Someone in the crowd: awwww Everyone: claps

[@TheRealDustinNunn]

It would have been hilarious if Cullen voiced Ironhide in the live-action Transformers movies. "But, Prime! Aw, gee whiz, Prime! I just wanna kick some butt, Prime!"

[@grimlock8155]

I'm laughing too hard at this comment and I fell backwards while sitting on my bed and then I leaned on Rose LinKinStar and now I'm just thinking that I'm gonna die becausd she's a Sunerican Marine Captain and I just unexpectedly leaned on her but then I got up off of her and she is just staring around the place in confusion...

[@felixcuthbert2719]

Peter Cullen: I can't wipe this grin off of my face. Me: It must be catchy, because neither can I.

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

*Many hours later* Peter Cullen: I still can't wipe this grin off of my face. Me: **just awkwardly sitting on the ground, screaming in pain due to pregnancy that Frank Welker had caused me to have** Peter Cullen: **notices me and stops smiling** Also Peter Cullen: welp... who are you? Me: I am your older brother Henry Laurence Cullen Jr.! Peter Cullen: **awkward stares at me** Also Peter Cullen: What's with your hands on your belly?.... Me: I AM SOMEHOW PREGNANT WITH FRANK WELKER'S CHILD ALTHOUGH FRANK WELKER AND I ARE DATING EACH OTHER NOW EVER SINCE MAY 1ST THIS YEAR!.... Peter Cullen: ok, Larry. You don't need to scream now............ Me: sorry, I thought you were about to ignore me again. Peter Cullen: I am sorry.... that I ignored you before.... Me: it's ok, just don't do it again or else, I turn into Terror Cullen and end up causing a deadly riot.... Peter Cullen: Larry, you do seriously need help now... Me: WELL! NO ONE WILL FLYING HELP ME AT ALL BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OUT THERE SERIOUSLY THINK THAT I AM A DEAD OLD MAN AND NOT A LIVING OLD MAN!!!!..... Also me: **also cries due to sadness** My brother Peter Cullen: **places his hands on my shoulder** Me: NO! DON'T TOUCH ME! Also me: **gets up and runs away from my brother** My brother Peter Cullen: **confused but also sad** *awkward silence occurs*

[@joyhagerty6455]

@@LarryMoonlink3892 what the hell is this skit?

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

@@joyhagerty6455 life.

[@Wardog01Actual]

Peter Cullen auditions for Michael Bay: "I'm Optimus Prime, BITCH!"

[@joshuathewelder24]

Peter Cullen is a legend

[@lunar3660]

Agreed

[@grimlock8155]

@Rayhaan Nasser I am more like a Vice King of Voice Acting..... though...... *LOL!*

[@grimlock8155]

@Rayhaan Nasser bonjour/hello, fan. 😁

[@scaleop4]

dam right

[@CIorox_BIeach]

We need an entire movie of Optimus Prime telling stories and bring a goofball like this.

[@Margiezilla2006]

Agreed!❤❤❤

[@javonjames4573]

The only voice of prime

[@mrg466]

...and many others including Ironhide!

[@SunnyBeeRandomTuber]

Agree to disagree....as a kid who grew up in the 90s Gary chalk was my Optimus.... probably you were hooked to the 80s.... So to each his own

[@darkousdragon1166]

@@SunnyBeeRandomTuber garry is a good second but he is different to me he does his own version of Optimus's voice instead of doing an impression, same with David he does an amazing young version of Optimus

[@kirkcallanta1285]

​@@SunnyBeeRandomTuber Gary is more of Primal imo

[@somerandolad]

Both he and Gary Chalk are equally good.

[@AustralianLeprechaun]

They made Peter Cullen audition WHAT THE???!!!

[@ForeverDegenerate]

Well like Peter said, Michael Bay knew jack squat about Transformers before making the first film. I'm guessing Bay had no idea who Peter Cullen was, just that the massive, rabid fanbase wanted him cast as Optimus Prime so he brought him in to audition.

[@tomsamper4345]

He also hadn’t done the role in close to 20 years at that point so it makes sense, but that being said, I am FIRMLY of the opinion that Peter Cullen’s voice acting is the reason why transformers resonated so strongly with so many of us for so long. He truly held gravitas with every word he spoke, even the most ridiculous lines they would give him,

[@emperorstarscream8311]

Optimus lives in Peter's heart

[@marimusprime2302]

Just like how Larry Cullen lives inside me because his soul possessed my body and now I obviously don't know what I am.... like sometimes, I think that I am a human and sometimes, I think that I am a Cybertronian then sometimes, I think that I am a Human-Cybertronian hybrid...... honestly......

[@vickerandflips8061]

Till all are one

[@marimusprime2302]

@@vickerandflips8061 true.

[@jrnuestmybae7180]

I love this guy..i wish I had a grandpa like him...I'd love listen to him to anything

[@edwardlambert3246]

He truly has "The Touch"! Thank you Mr. Cullen, you truly will forever be my childhood.

[@mkhanman12345]

Few know about the Optimus who played for the Atlanta Falcons His name was Optimus Grimes

[@craigmartinj]

YOU?!?! Audition for OPTIMUS PRIME!?! How completely INSANE is this??? YOU *ARE* Optimus PRIME! They're cannot be another actor to do it! You're perfect BECAUSE you made the role!

[@grimlock8155]

True. I'm also gonna question them as well.... *I'm mentally unstable, all thanks to the losses I had experienced... and everything bad that I had experienced. I also even attempted to commit suicide but then, I was saved by a female Sunerican Marine Captain and that marine captain is Rose LinKinStar and she lectured me on why I shouldn't kill myself... and I told her that I won't do it again and so I have been trying to not have the urge to kill myself!...*

[@Optimusprime809]

Well tbf, Garry Chalk had been Optimus for longer than Peter had been prior to the films. From Beast Wars all the way to Cybertron (but not RID). Garry was Optimus for a lot of kids. Definitely a good thing they brought Peter back though, I just don't know why he hasn't gotten more roles in other properties, such a rare voice!

[@radolfkalis4041]

My same thoughts!

[@maddestmike5791]

This is the man who breathed life into 1984s greatest hero. :)

[@kornfreak78]

We love you too, Mr. Cullen. Seriously, you are the voice of my childhood. You will always have my respect. :)

[@winterstar5750]

We love you too, Peter Cullen! And your grin was very contagious

[@grimlock8155]

I love you too... 😳 *is a bit embarrassed because I'm being sat on by Rose LinKinStar* Btw, I'm actually mentally suffering... for real.... and Rose LinKinStar is trying to help me by cuddling up with me in any way possible even though she is a Marine Captain... who is from Sunerica...

[@kdarkwynde]

We love you too, Optimus. TILL ALL ARE ONE!

[@jessemastro]

2:29 yep we can all tell. he still doesn't

[@ladyeva9398]

May his voice last forever! Petter Cullen, we will always love you and Optimus! You'r both a legend.

[@aliciahouston5712]

You are so cool Peter Cullen! You are the best Optimus Prime ever!

[@grimlock8155]

Thanks a lot. 🤔 I am unsure of something right now.........

[@MichelLinschoten]

Micheal bay asking Cullen to audition.. Peter should have responded “I am optimus prime!!” I am almost 40 now, these guys are my heroes man. I grew up with gen 1 and I feel honored

[@grimlock8155]

Wow. Hi!... *sadly, I'm mentally suffering* I can't imagine me just saying "I'm Optimus Prime!" To Michael Bay!...

[@blackdiamondltd_jack]

I love Peter Cullen! That was adorable!!! We love you too!!!

[@grimlock8155]

😶 I am blushing in real life and I am unsure of what to say now..... 😶

[@jorgetomedeandradealves8565]

HE IS AND WILL BE OPTIMUS PRIME FOR ALL OF US LIKE KEVIN CONROY BATMAN

[@GrayWoIf]

When I heard he was going to play Optimus I was sold I didn't care if the movie was terrible but to see him as live action Prime on the big screen I was like let's go

[@theavengerprimeoptimusprim4292]

YEAH Peter Cullen rocks the house and plus voice acting so he is the best of all time

[@GOJIRA_2000]

I hope he and Frank Weller can expand his career more. I want him to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe or The DCEU.

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

Black Adam 14/18 if he ever does i'll go nuts (because of happiness)

[@MetroXLR99]

The MCU is more likely, given how involved Marvel was with Transformers G1.

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

MetroXLR true

[@Luka1180]

Agreed.

[@GOJIRA_2000]

SMYRNA SPRINGFLARE for reals :D

[@jodyreeder4820]

It's always great knowing when you find something that makes you popular.

[@Tiresias55]

3:40 Aw, we all love you too! Peter Cullen gave the Bayformers movie heart, without him, they'd be nothing. Though I wonder, how with fan opinion behind Peter resuming his role that Frank Welker didn't get the same oppertunity to reprise his role as Megatron! There have been many people voicing Prime and Megatron over the years, but all fall far short of those two voice acting icons!

[@michaelnally2841]

Well Frank Whelker wasn’t even in the first film. I dunno if he didn’t get to audition, or his schedule was too busy. But he didn’t get to play Megatron/galvatron until age of extinction. But hey that might’ve been what got Whelker to be Megatron again for transformers prime

[@streamofawareness]

He is sooooo sweet. :)

[@docregsportsmd]

Dude hugged Optimus Prime 🤩👍

[@radolfkalis4041]

As a teenager Optimus Prime became my image of what a real Leader should be, and still stands to this day. Till all are one my Prime!

[@sam-dn9hr]

Its the only voice! the most powerful voice in the galaxy!!!!

[@geekgodofdeath6634]

WE THE FANS WANT AN OPTIMUS PRIME MOVIE WITH PETER CULLEN IN IT

[@TheDreamrevolution]

Kind & Honest People Like Him are getting Fewer & Fewer as time goes on. I'll Cherish Peter Cullen/Optimus Prime till the End of time. C:

[@Houseless_socialist]

"They gave me $25." Everyone, collectively: *in shock*... What? D:

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

**Peter Cullen sleeping with his face in the pillow because he hates his life for letting Michael Bay abuse him in some way or another**

[@natureseeker9122]

2:29 PREACH!!!

[@angiev.5132]

Hear Hear!

[@Bayan1905]

Well, it proves what we knew all along, Michael Bay didn't conceive of doing the first Transformers film out of any love or appreciation of the show, but for money since he didn't know a damn thing about it until after it was already underway.

[@petegaines52]

I LOVE YOU PETER "OPTIMUS PRIME" CULLEN THANK YOU FOR AWESOME CHILDHOOD LONG LIVE OPTIMUS PRIME FOREVER ❤️

[@RicoLee27]

Michael tried and I respect him. He had good things i loved about hid movies. If we don't look at story and logic.

[@CIorox_BIeach]

To be fair though, g1 has about as much continuity as a blown diode and the TFP magical nonsense makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

[@core885]

Peter cullen Optimus prime needs u

[@grimlock8155]

*falls over hundreds of times while walking* My feet are drunk af... Somehow... *(I'm mentally suffering here... well, I guess you can say that Optimus Prime has Depression, PTSD and some other mental health conditions.)*

[@mohdsoffimdsaad8325]

Mr. Cullen if you come to Malaysia. I will be waiting for you here. You are my hero

[@jamesheinrich5338]

We love you too Peter. You're the only voice of Optimus Prime.

[@gaming-zombie1392]

You're the best & we all Love you...

[@joltagegyronicthehedgehog4911]

I wish to peter Cullen in person

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

I wanna remeet my brother Peter Cullen in person for a while since the day he abandoned me!

[@grimlock8155]

As I was reading your comment, I was like "what???" Because there is a missing word there. I don't know what to say now... 🤔

[@grimlock8155]

The interveiwer or the fan or whoever that person was looked like he is dying and leaning against me as he was dying and I just laughed it off in the thumbmail. But in reality, we were laughing........

[@Margiezilla2006]

This is too darn cute❤❤❤

[@Chalky.]

Michael Bay might have gained knowledge of Transformers but the only people who really know it are those of us who lived through it at the time.

[@grimlock8155]

Michael Bay is 50-something! He should have known it since he was alive during the 1980s!...

[@Chalky.]

@@grimlock8155 I should have specified being young enough to live through the time, as he would have been an adult when the show started.

[@grimlock8155]

@@Chalky. yeah. True...

[@Hodaris_Darlin]

@@grimlock8155 He didn't grow up with The Transformers & therein lied the problem.

[@Ghost-dz7io]

Primus bless you, guys.*

[@thetribalchief3606]

2:30 dam true

[@bryantellez6735]

TheBigDog Official Lol

[@markleathers8033]

Rowan just saying that's was a good match when you face Brock lesner and that's was really nice I didn't now you like transformers to so does my grandson

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

The audio that Peter Cullen made when he is doing that moment like "Michael Bay just threw his brain out." Sound affect.. was super funny! Don't you grunts think so?...

[@vickerandflips8061]

The audience booed. I love it!

[@MrGossardX]

In the animated film Cullen voiced a conversation between both Ironhide and Optimus Prime.

[@CP-sg9qk]

Can't wait to meet him again when he and frank welker comes back to comic con again this year

[@chaoticproductions3922]

He shouldn’t have had to audition he IS Optimus prime and Optimus prime dissent have to fucking audition

[@jorgetomedeandradealves8565]

3:48 AND WE LOVE YOU TOO, YOU ARE AND WILL BE OPTIMUS PRIME FOR ALL OF US, YOU BECAME A LEGEND A SYMBOL FOR ALL TRANSFORMERS FANS

[@Blueman2018]

Some legends you leave alone and “P.C” the voice of O.P is one of them.....

[@4stringz.]

Total G1 fan, and i love every TF film

[@nobodyshekatonchires7981]

I want Peter to play Ironhide again

[@JacomeFut]

Peter Cullen The Voice of Optimus Prime was Also Super Mario

[@justinjoseph6966]

Peter Cullen and Frank Welker are an absolute treasure and an integral part of the childhoods of elder millennials, like me, everywhere!

[@JnEricsonx]

4 weeks to go, I meet the man, and try not to let my inner child start bawling.

[@monke3713]

Now imagine if the voice of ironhide is peter cullen, and optimus have different voice actor

[@DarksaberForce]

Same how Frank Welker was Soundwave but not Megatron (even though Hugo Weaving did a great job). But I remember being confused when I watched the end credits and wondered if they had Megatron's original voice actor why wasn't he Megatron?

[@FazTronic]

Imagine we get a remade g1 transformers movie and sparkplug could be acted by Peter cullen And as well as optimus

[@johnrussell9901]

No thanks. The G1 movie is terrible. We don’t need a remake of it.

[@FazTronic]

@@johnrussell9901 I guess you don't have good taste

[@downtownman7916]

Who will continue his role after he is gone :(

[@GothamKnight-hsw4vx526430]

...Maybe Garry Chalk?

[@mrtencza]

I know this one voice who almost has Peter Cullen's voice to a T. His name is Jason Marnocha

[@biteme9505]

liam neeson

[@edgarrios2243]

Me

[@calebmasaba5815]

Bite Me sure

[@Rezy.]

I get Walther White vibes from him

[@cville991]

2:29 The same can be said for Tim Burton, who also knew nothing about Batman. 😂

[@Killugon12]

3:49We love❤ you too Peter Cullen😊😊

[@JacomeFut]

Peter Cullen Voice of Optimus Prime also Super Mario

[@epsteinsmurderer5130]

Thought this was Bryan Cranston on the thumbnail...

[@kayele]

Audition?!? - What does he need to audition for?

[@grimlock8155]

I think that You're probably too young to even understand voice acting stuff like audition and other things like that...

[@ooPHOENIXoo]

Having all those millennials in the audience not getting anything he said at times was so cringe. You can see the discomfort in his face when they couldn't get the punchlines. Such amazing talent and karisma this man and Frank Welker have. God bless them both!!

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

There could have been Generation Z people or Silent Generation people out there in the audience too....... *wait. My brother Peter Claver Cullen and I are both apart of the Silent Generation people. So what has my life come to since I am gonna have a kid with Frank Welker but Frank Welker is a baby boomer.............. because the year of 1946 until the years of 1960s were the Baby Boomers Generation.......*

[@am2xamj]

Peter is KING 👑

[@tuanmai8005]

Has Peter Cullen meet Marlene Aragon voice of Elita One in Transformers G1?

[@davetindall5722]

Why does the moderator on stage look like he hates his life?

[@grimlock8155]

Because he had seen terrible things before and now he wants his suffering to end?..... this is just my guess, I honestly don't know....

[@custom_gamezmodz]

Just imagine making Peter Cullen audition for the part. Bey needs counseling

[@grimlock8155]

The thumbnail was so funny that I thought the host was about to sleep on my shoulder right there!... 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@bad2dabohn1992]

I can understand Bay not knowing about Tformers but c'mon man you shoulda done your research and KNOW no one but Peter Cullen is Optimus

[@ronanja]

3:51 we ❤️ u too

[@Polyphemus.]

I wish they'd gotten Christopher Nolan for these films. Actually, anybody would've been better than Michael 'Product Placement' Bay...

[@SunnyBeeRandomTuber]

I disagree by a huge margin..... Christopher Nolan is great storyteller but then he never goes on the fantasy angle....he could be made BANE in dkr so much.more.menacing but he stays away from cgi ....and that's Michael bay with his over the top sky rocket budgets for the 1st transformers(along with Steven Spielberg) was the best bet

[@joec7217]

"Michael Bay knew nothing about the Transformers at all" Not surprised at all

[@DahlinME]

I...like everyone else think Optimus prime is the robotic version of John Wayne :)

[@Hodaris_Darlin]

Peter did inject a little bit of John Wayne into OP, but most of the voice was based on his older brother whom he looked up to & served in the military.

[@dreal500]

How the hell was this man auditioning for anything dealing with transformers.

[@ayayronm]

Depressed Eeyore just kinda sounds like Sam Elliot

[@Hodaris_Darlin]

The fact that Peter Cullen, the ORIGINAL voice of Optimus Prime, the man who breathed LIFE into the character, had to audition for the role HE made famous for a guy who knew NOTHING about The Transformers (& still doesn't) is a fucking TRAVESTY! 🤬

[@JnEricsonx]

At least they got him! When I first heard, I figured, "Oh, they'll get like Clooney or Hanks or someone.....wait..they got Peter Cullen? Well shit day 1 Im in the theater!"

[@Killugon12]

2:29Yeah Screw you Michael Bay😒😤😤

[@commandersoundwave2845]

I could imagine Peter Cullen just releasing his anger that had built up over time and that he had compressed all of his anger into a little tight storage and it all built up over time, even after his brother died and then Peter Cullen getting so mad and that he lets out his anger out on Michael Bay by simply yelling at Micheal Bay like as if Peter Cullen was Michael Bay's father who got angry at him.... then making Michael Bay just cry shamefully in fear...

[@uppercutgrandma4425]

"Micheal Bay knew nothing about the transformers at all"- gets cheers from grown men who still be playing with toys..... 💀💀💀

[@johnrussell9901]

>Wel duh Michael Bay knew nothing about Transformers Yeah. Uh, pretty sure Transformers wasn’t that well known at the time. It’s been well documented that, by the time the movie was greenlit, the franchise wasn’t that well known. A lot of angry 40 something year old nerds in this thread. >What?! Bay had Cullen audition? Hasbro and the studio execs at Paramount probably had a hand in wanting him to audition. Worth noting that Cullen voicing Prime in the ‘07 movie was the first time he had voiced Prime since G1. They probably weren’t sure he could still do the voice or if he’d sound insanely different from how he sounded in the 80’s Kind of funny to see nerds claim Bay was “disrespectful to the franchise” as if they don’t hold a movie, that singlehandedly disrespected the characters and Optimus Prime himself, in such high esteem. Geewunners gonna geewun I guess.

[@darkousdragon1166]

Dude there are plenty of ppl who grew up outside of g1 for my family because of the age range it was Beat wars and Armada reruns, hell i was 2 when 07 movie came out but i already knew wat Transformers was and so did a lot of friends of the family just by see or hear Prime or Megatron

[@Hodaris_Darlin]

He should've done his research first. No excuses. Transformers had also been revived a few times by that point with Beast Wars, Energon, Armada. The toys were still being made & sold as well. You don't go into a franchise that's over 20 years old without learning all you can about it first. It made Michael Bay look like an idiot.

[@EricTheKartoonKing]

Haha but seriously. Screw Michael Bay. This guy who literally knows nothing about the series auditioned Peter THREE TIMES. And he said meh, he likely wanted a big name like Liam Neeson. And the ONLY reason he cast Peter was because of pressure from the fans, and likely the studio. And THEN, in behind the scenes interviews, he has the nerve to say "we brought Peter on to do Optimus, obviously, we couldn't get anyone else, so iconic." Like piss off dude, you never cared and you still don't.

[@LarryMoonlink3892]

*Triggered Peter Cullen moment* *Peter Cullen goes throwing stuff all over the room and screaming like a maniac then something that Peter Cullen had threw hits Michael Bay in the face, Michael Bay dead unconscious laying on the floor* *Peter Cullen continues to throw stuff and scream*

[@Docstantinople]

He sure takes a long time to explain things.

[@Docstantinople]

candyangelo yes you are right.

[@tmm4633]

it comes with age, he clearly is also a story teller who enjoys elaborating and seeing people's reactions

[@h0rnytoad1]

that just means it's not a Hollyweird scripted interview. Real questions from real people, answered by a real person. Good luck in your old age.

[@cringeivore3769]

I don't mind, I could listen to the man talk all day

[@megathot3734]

Yeah but he just looks so happy lol