Talented cast keeps Transformers 4 a human story

MANILA, Philippines - Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg and two upcoming young actors, Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor, lead the human cast of Paramount Pictures’ new action-adventure, Transformers: Age of Extinction from director Michael Bay.

Wahlberg, who stars as single father Cade Yeager in the fourth installment to the franchise, promises that, despite the expected carnage, moviegoers will still be able to resonate with the brand-new cast of characters in the film.

Cade is a struggling inventor who finds a buried Transformer, and that discovery and its consequences set off the chain of events that Age of Extinction will follow.

“Technology is advancing but there was such a strong emphasis on the human element and the emotional aspect of it and the connection between a father and a daughter,” Wahlberg says. “These are the kind of characters I can root for — this kind of ordinary guy thrust into this situation.”

Jack Reynor, who plays Shane Dyson, a racing driver secretly dating Cade’s daughter Tessa, echoes Wahlberg’s sentiments, explaining, “Mark’s character and I have quite the tentative relationship throughout the course of the film. But it kind of culminates in us gaining a mutual respect for one another through our love of Tessa.”

Peltz, who plays the aforementioned Tessa, added, “This has a father-daughter story that people can relate to so easily.”

Together, the three find themselves caught up in the epic bout of global robot mayhem.

Reynor appeared in the recent Vince Vaugn comedy Delivery Man and in the latest cinematic version of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender. Reynor’s in a rare position of starring in one of the most expensive movies of the year, and also character-driven indie dramas with modest budgets.

“I think that it’s not so different from any other film you try to do, like I said, it all happens in your imagination and it is just an extension of that,” Reynor shares. He also stressed that fans in his home country of Ireland were very excited to see an Irish actor play an Irish character in major Hollywood release.

Opening across the Philippines on June 25, Transformers: Age of Extinction is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.