Mark Wahlberg details role as Cade Yeager in Transformers 4 Age of Extinction

Michael Bay is at it again with the fourth installment in the Transformers movie series, Transformers: Age of Extinction. Mark Wahlberg plays the lead role of Cade Yeager in the film, and the actor has revealed a load of new information about his character.

Wahlberg told TFW2005.com that part of the appeal of Transformers 4 for him was that his children could get excited about it, too:

"Well, it was exciting because it was the first time my kids were really interested in a movie I was doing. Any time they see me with a gun, like Contraband or Pain & Gain, they want to see that, too, but they can't because of the language and all that stuff. But I loved working with Michael Bay, and I thought he had a really interesting way to make it new, different, and fresh. Plus, being in movies that have the potential to be hugely successful allows me to make smaller movies that I'm really passionate about." 

The site also asked him what makes Transformers 4 different from the previous two so-so sequels, and Wahlberg offered his take:

"It was a tighter script, and its own stand-alone thing. I think the emotional core of it, the human element, is going to be extremely powerful. It's an ordinary man trying to do extraordinary things to save his daughter and keep her alive-and this boyfriend he didn't know anything about. He'd had a child when he was in high school and his wife passed away, and the promise he'd made to her was that she wouldn't date any boys until she graduated and that she'd be at the graduation; because we weren't due to the pregnancy. So there's an anchor to it and a realness to it that I like a lot."

During the interview, Wahlberg's assistant comes in to put a brace on his neck, and the actor revealed that he injured himself during filming:

"I hurt my neck in Hong Kong, and it hasn't gotten better yet. I just woke up in the morning and couldn't move, but still had to shoot 10 days of crazy action."

Transformers: Age of Extinction hits theaters on June 27, 2014.