Megan Fox, Michael Bay, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Ramon Rodriguez and Kevin Dunn Press Conference

Were there any injuries from running?
Kevin Dunn: "Michael wanted to get this long shot of coming around and seeing Sam and running, and then getting this big beefo guy special agent tackling me and throwing me to the ground. So he talked me into it and the whole secret was that I had to get my feet to land.

We did it quite a few times."

Michael Bay: "We did it three times."

Kevin Dunn: "The last time I just didn’t get my feet down."

Michael Bay: "That's the take we used."

Kevin Dunn: "You'll see that, and it was his shoulder and my sciatic nerve in the sand met at the same time. I missed Tyrese's party."

Tyrese Gibson: "We were sad about that. I sprained my left pinky toe."

Ramon Rodriguez: "I popped this shoulder, which was a lot of fun on the Devastator scene. Oh yeah, bro."

Michael Bay: "You didn't tell me that."

Ramon Rodriguez: "Well, I didn't want to get you worried."

Michael Bay: "You wanna sue me?"

Ramon Rodriguez: "No. So yeah, we were shooting the Devastator scene where he's sucking all the sand and I had to hold on to this pole. Michael Bay thought it would be a really great idea to bring out two fans that blow 100 miles per hour each and put them right in front of my face. So I had sand, soot, dirt blowing in my face and I had two guys behind me with wires attached to my ankles pulling me.

Not enough yet, we need cars flipping over my head so we brought two cars and he literally had them attached to a hydraulic crane flipped inches above my head. So the guys are yanking on the cables on my ankles and yeah, on one of the takes my shoulder popped out. We continued rolling because you can use the shot."

Michael Bay: "That was the shot we used."

Ramon Rodriguez: "That was probably the shot you used, and thank you, Mike."

Was it easier or harder this time to work with machines that weren't always there?

Megan Fox: "It was definitely easier because we've seen them at this point. We've seen Optimus and we've heard his voice and we know how he moves. It's the same with all the robots. And once you're able to visualize something's presence, it's a lot easier to sort of fake interact with it. I think those scenes are some of the easiest scenes to shoot. I enjoy them because we've gotten good at being able to synchronize and pick an eye line. You basically scream your dialogue at it and you avoid the area where you know it is. I enjoy those scenes. We end up usually doing a ton of takes because ILM, it needs to be specific. The light needs to be right and you need to be able to add it in and make it look like the way that they do. But it wasn't that difficult this time around."

The shot from the aircraft, is that stock footage or were you allowed to go on the aircraft?

Michael Bay: "In terms of stock footage, I don't like using it so all that stuff was shot by us. We had incredible access from the military, which is very rare. All those planes, that's us shooting it. They flew a hundred feet over our set at a time. There were six F-16s out doing a mission and we timed their mission for when we wanted them to come over our set four times. We were setting off live explosions down below. We timed it with them."

After making a movie like this where technology is causing so many problems, do you think twice about the technology you use in your own life: Twitter, your laptop, anything like that?

Michael Bay: "I don't know what Twitter is."

Megan Fox: "Neither do I, by the way. I don't have a Twitter page."

Tyrese Gibson: "I love Twitter."

Megan Fox: "He's the only one that has a Twitter."

Tyrese Gibson: "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."

What do you love about it?

Tyrese Gibson: "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."

Can you talk about your decision to use President Obama's name instead of some fictional presidential name, especially in light of his National Security Advisor [in the film] being kind of stupid?

Michael Bay: "Yeah. I wasn't really putting that… Remember, it is summer fun, by the way. Secondly, the Obama thing came about because I was walking in a Vegas airport and he was walking by himself, carrying his bag and his hanging bag over his shoulder. This was after I'd just seen him in the beginning of his campaign and we were walking side by side. I said, 'Hey, I saw you the other night and I liked what you had to say the other night. I really like hearing your stuff.' I introduced myself and he said, 'What do you do?' 'I'm a director.' He said, 'What movies?' I said, 'Oh, these movies…' He said, 'Oh, you're a big ass director. I've seen a bunch of your movies.' So that's why I decided to put him in."

Josh Duhamel: "Did he really say 'big ass director'?"

Michael Bay: "Yeah, he really did."

Tyrese Gibson: "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."

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