The soldier boys from Transformers are back. Now Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel lead the NEST team, rounding up rogue Decepticons with Autobot assistance. When The Fallen returns to earth, the NSA threatens to shut down NEST, but this is an action movie. The boys defy orders to get the job donw.

Crave Online: How did the military training differ from the first film?

Tyrese Gibson: I would say honestly that the first go-round was so much more intense than the second, because we kinda went into it not knowing too much of nothing about the Air Force, military, Navy SEALS. For me, I didn’t know the difference in the roles, the responsibilities of each one of the soldiers and the categories of soldiers. So I worked closely with someone called a CCT, which is a Combat Controller because I have to have dialogue to communicate with all of the aircraft, so that dialogue is very difficult. With Michael’s overseeing the dialogue, we’ve got to make sure that we cater to the real authentic dialogue of the Air Force but yet create a balance of making sure that the common folks who don’t understand that language can understand it too. So it was a bit of a challenge, especially with all of the explosions and stuff going on around, a little challenge.

Josh Duhamel: Yeah, the first one we had a few days out in Fort Irwin and the second time we just sort of jumped into it. I was in New York and we just sort of had a bit of a refresher course but there are military advisors. Harry Humphries is out there. There’s a number of people from all facets of the military and I think that we both took a lot of pride in trying to represent the military as closely as we could. I’ve got a lot of friends in the military, an Aunt over in Iraq so that was my main focus was to try to represent them all and make them proud. And if we didn’t, they would let us know, believe me.

Crave Online: What were your favorite memories of making the movie?

Tyrese Gibson: I would say compared to even the first one, I think our roles were so much more serious this time than the first round because there are so many moments comedic-wise throughout the film. I guess the outcome was Michael wanted us to kind of play it a little more serious to kind of raise the stakes and the pressure of what’s really going on, which was fine. I enjoy doing the funny stuff to try and create a balance but I just overall had fun with the experience and we all vibed and were laughing and having big parties, good energy on the set. It’s so much pressure on the set because Michael runs a real tight ship, keeps everybody on the edge. Everybody’s full throttle. I’m like, look, man, if I don’t do a party, I’m going to go crazy right now. I try to keep everybody, the whole crew, the cast, everybody having fun while we were working.

Josh Duhamel: Yeah, he took the night shift. I guess the most fun I had, in the last answer I said we tried to be as accurate as we could and then my favorite scene in the movie was throwing the National Security Advisor off the plane. But that’s the most fun I had. It was just a fun scene to do and there was a nice little stunt involved. That was probably my most memorable, that or the gigantic bomb that went off.

Tyrese Gibson: 1,000 [gallons]. We made history. The biggest practical explosion in the history of filmmaking that included actors.

Crave Online: This movie is about giant robots threatening to take over. What’s your relationship with modern technology, the internet, Twitter, etc.?

Tyrese Gibson: I love Twitter. I took the fans on a world tour to all six, seven countries we went to, took pictures of all the historical places in Rome and Amsterdam and I took all of them on tour with me. I told them, “Pull out your passports, I’m taking you on tour with Twitter.” I love it. It’s the instant gratification of posting a picture of us just hanging out somewhere or just doing something or all of these different moments throughout these countries. The fans are like whoa, they get to see these images and things that they wouldn’t be able to see unless you saved it on your Twitter. So I love it.

Crave Online: What sort of workout did you have for the film?

Josh Duhamel: Honestly, you’re out there literally sweatin’ all day long and you don’t have a lot of energy, running in the sand. Tyrese and I worked out a little bit.

Crave Online: Together?

Josh Duhamel: It was more of a personal competition. Yeah, he would spot me and I would spot him. What’s the big deal?

Tyrese Gibson: That don’t sound too good.

Josh Duhamel: Honestly, before we started the first one, I remember Michael told me, “Come ready. Be in shape, I demand a lot of my male actors especially in these movies.” So I did, I just tried to be as strong and ready to go as I could.

Tyrese Gibson: We worked out twice a day though. We worked out before we went to the set and after the set we would come and get our five miles in. Have you ever done five miles? Did you do maybe three?

Josh Duhamel: I didn’t run five miles.

Tyrese Gibson: You used to run with us. Three? Two.

Josh Duhamel: I don't know, it doesn’t matter.

Crave Online: Would you want to work with the Department of Defense again?

Josh Duhamel: I would. I love it. They were great to work with. I think that’s a question, Michael has a great relationship with them. I think that’s why.

Tyrese Gibson: The aircraft carrier stuff was one of a kind. Gettin’ there was very unsafe but yet safe and leaving was the same thing. But I mean, we had a big party on the boat, with 5600 people in the middle of the water on this boat. Josh is very involved in politics by the way. All the time we were filming, he did not miss one speech, the polls, anything. We had so many conversations in the car on the way to the set about the whole campaign. I learned a lot, Josh. You’re the greatest.

Josh Duhamel: That’s what I’m there for. I was just worried after throwing him off the plane, I might get audited.