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Alex Winter and Lee Majors join us live in the studio to talk about their latest film Ben 10: Race Against Time

This half term sees the UK premiere of the fantastic new live-action movie Ben 10: Race Against Time. Based on the popular animated series, the movie was the highest rating show ever on Cartoon Network reaching over 4 million children in the US. Its UK television premiere is on Monday 11th February at 10am on Cartoon Network. The movie features a spectacular cast and crew including director Alex Winter, better known as Bill from the excellent Bill and Ted films, and the legendary Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors.

To give you a sneak preview of their latest film, we’ve invited Alex and Lee to answer all your questions about their experience on the film and what it was like to bring animated characters to life. You’ll also get the chance to chat with the child stars of the show Graham Phillips (Evan Almighty) who plays Ben and Haley Ramm (X-Men 3) as Gwen.

The chat will also include exclusive footage of the film and from behind the scenes so why not tune into our webchat and submit some questions to our very special guests and find out all there is to know about Ben 10: Race Against Time.

Graham, Haley, Lee Majors and Alex Winter join us live online on Saturday 9th February, at 12.30 – 1.00pm to discuss Ben 10: Race Against Time.

For more information visit www.cartoonnetwork.co.uk/ben10movie

The cinematic premiere of Ben 10: Race Against Time will be hosted in London at Leicester Square’s The Vue on Sunday 10th February.Cartoon Network can be found on channel 601 on Sky and 704 on Virgin.

M: Vicky Letch, moderator
G: Graham Philips plays “Ben”
H: Haley Ramm plays “Gwen”
L: Lee Majors, plays “Grandpa”
A: Alex Winter, Director

H: Hello and welcome to the Entertainment Show, I’m Vicky Letch. Now this half term sees the UK premiere of a very exciting new live action movie, Ben 10: Race Against Time. Based on the popular animated series, the UK premiere is on Monday morning, 10am on the Cartoon Network, 11th February. Now before we get stuck in with the cast and crew, let’s take a look at a clip –

Video footage

“Ben Tennyson has always been special. You might call him a super hero. Let’s rumble. But in the quite town of Bellwood being a hero doesn’t exactly help with girls or bullies. Or homework. And when an ancient enemy is freed from his prison, he’ll fight his toughest battle yet”

“There is nowhere you can run”

“A monster named Eon”

“And this time nothing shall thwart me once Benjamin Tennyson is dead”

“Can Ben stop this new enemy before Gwen, Grandpa Max and all of Bellwood feel his wrath? It’s going to take more than the Omnitrix, it’s going to take a hero”

“No”

“Come on, let’s settle this thing once and for all”

“Ben 10 – Race Against Time, a Cartoon Network original movie, only on Cartoon Network”

M: It looks absolutely fabulous, but of course an awful lot of that is down to the spectacular cast and crew, including Alex Winter, best known for his role as Bill – as the most excellent Bill, I should say (I couldn’t resist, sorry) in Bill and Ted, and of course the legendary Lee Majors, Six Million Dollar Man – I’m very excited! Thank you so much for joining us

L: Thank you, sure

M: To tell us about this marvellous movie. Now before we carry on, just to let you know that we are totally live, and we’re live across the nation and across the world as well. Isn’t this exciting boys?

L: It is

M: So if you’ve got any questions then just pop them in the box on the screen, submit them and then I’ll make them answer them for you. Yes?

L: Great

M: They’re up for this, they’re up for this!

L: We are

A: If we can understand them we’ll answer them!

M: I will speak very slowly

L: That’s good

M: So let’s just start off by telling us a little bit about the film

A: Well we made a live action version of the animated show, so we took all the characters from the show, you know primarily Ben, Grandpa, Max and Gwen and brought them into the real world with the alien heroes as well, so we’ve got some very exciting special effects and lots of action and the humour of the show and the energy of the show and it was a lot of fun, it really was

M: Excellent. And very exciting of course for all of you kids at home to be able to see your cartoon, your favourite cartoon characters in real life

A: Yes it was a lot of pressure!

M: But did you enjoy it?

A: Yes it was fantastic, you know we had a fantastic cast and they brought a lot of life and depth to those characters and you know in the States it was, it’s been a very big hit because I think people have felt a real connection to the – seeing those guys real, you know

M: Excellent. Did he behave? Yes you

A: Yes he did, yes

L: We ruled the set with an iron fist!

M: I am Majors, hear me roar!

L: You know this was a wonderful shoot that we had with my friend Alex here. He sent me a script and asked me if I wanted to do this little movie for him, and – for the Cartoon Network because I wasn’t familiar with the Cartoon Network at my age and so I read a script and said yes I’d love to do it, and I was very disappointed when I wasn’t doing Ben

A: Yes

M: Oh, yes!

L: I thought I was supposed to be doing Ben –

A: I think I may have lied when I gave you the script

L: Then he started saying no, it’s grandpa. I said oh grandpa, ok –

M: Did that hurt a little bit?

L: Well I need a whole new generation of fans so I figured we’d start with the 5-12 year olds. I think I have enough mums out there that appreciate what I’ve done over the years. So mums, this is a great one for your kids!

A: Yes. For him, it’s a great one for you too

M: Yes it’s true. Trust me, you’re still a heartthrob

L: Oh thank you

M: Sweaty palms, sweaty palms. Ok let’s start with a question – you have been absolutely fantastic, we’ve got thousands of questions but we do have room for more so do keep them coming in. Kelvin asks “I am a huge fan of the film, how long did it take to make?”

A: Well it took us about a year end to end of when we started working on the script to working out the effects to casting and shooting and all that, and all the post-production on an effects movie takes a very long time

M: Yes

A: The shoot itself was about – better part of a month I guess, in a very – we had a heat wave in LA when we were shooting, so we were shooting at very high temperatures, so when you see heat blast it’s like real heat ripples coming off. Pretty much it is

L: You see sweat, it’s real sweat

A: It’s real sweat yes

M: Because there are quite a few special effects in this aren’t there?

A: There’s a lot of special effects and – but it was really important to all of us to keep it grounded with the characters too, and you know we didn’t want it to be a movie where it got lost with the effects, we just wanted the – because the alien heroes have their own personality too, just like in the show. So even though they’re CG characters you want them to have personality as well, so it was a lot of fun – it was challenging but fun

M: Excellent. Another one from Alice Howard, thank you very much Alice. She says “will there be more Ben 10 movies in the future” – greedy. Come on, they’ve just done this one!

A: You haven’t seen the first one yet! See that you might not want another one

M: Oh I’m sure they will. “Or perhaps a live action series to compliment the cartoon series?”

A: Live action – you know these are really all questions for Cartoon Network

M: Come on, please Cartoon –

A: Yes please Cartoon Network, we want a live action CG series, the kids want it, clearly so just let us know when we start and we’ll be there making it

L: I could use the work

A: Yes we’re ready to go. There’s a strike about to end, everybody’s ready to work. We hope so, it would be nice to do another one and we certainly talked about ideas for what that would be, so we’ll see – hopefully

M: Fingers crossed

A: Fingers crossed

M: Let’s all do this together, as a nation – across the world

A: Yes that’s right

C: Connor asks – I would like to say, good name Connor – “how did you make all the special effects like a Wildmutt and heat blast?”

A: Well they’re done mostly in computer, computer animation, it’s no different than any movie that you see, and we had these very talented artists who created the characters and then we run them through the computers. It takes a very long time and it’s painful and complicated but they did a great job, I mean that was very important in making this, and if we couldn’t have the effects really compete with everything that kids see it wouldn’t really work

M: Yes

A: You know it wouldn’t deliver, and I really wanted kids to love this and really feel like they saw Heat blast come to life and saw Wildmutt come alive and so it was a lot of artists working very long hours to make that happen

M: Yes so kids you better love it if not this man is probably going to hunt you down

A: No it won’t be me it will be all the animators who slaved away pretty much on end with no sleep – yes

M: And is it – so these characters that we’re seeing, is it really reminiscent of the cartoons, are they going to recognise these characters straight away?

A: Without a doubt, yes. I mean, you know we wanted to bring them into the real world, we didn’t want it to look cartoony just like we didn’t want the acting and the characters to be cartoony you know, it was about – we wanted the whole world to feel real, you know, all the people and all the – you know because you can bring an animated story to life and everything’s just replicated you know? But with this it just wanted to feel real and so the characters – you’ll recognise Heat Blast, you’ll recognise WildMutt, you know it’s real spit coming out of Wildmutt’s mouth and you know, it’s great

M: That sounds good! What an interesting point to bring up!

L: Kids love spit, we learned that in testing

M: Kids do love spit, what is that about?

L: It’s your guys fault – you know, it wasn’t me

M: So where did it, how did it all come about that they decided to do a live version of this particular series?

A: Well it’s a very successful show, and I’ve got a 9 year old boy whose totally addicted to it, and all of his friends are so I’ve been watching it for years, and we originally when I was talking to them we were going to make a shorter, like – more like a live action super episode

M: Yes

A: But it just - it looked like so much fun we just decided to expand it out and do a movie of that which is – which works better that way I think

M: And grandpa – sorry

L: That’s ok

M: Lee, Lee – I’m just joking. Are you now a fan of the cartoon?

L: I am now, yes but I think my grandpa is a lot better looking and younger looking than the one in the cartoon

M: Yes I’d have to agree, I do definitely agree

L: Yes

M: Now Sarah wants to know – “hi Alex”

A: Hello

M: “I loved you in Bill and Ted and wondered what made you get into directing?”

A: Ah. Well I’d been acting –

L: He couldn’t find another acting job

A: That’s right, exactly yes! I didn’t know what to do, it’s like I had to start directing, it was terrible! I’d been acting and directing kind of side-by-side the whole time, and directing and writing has always been more my passion than acting, so you know as time goes on my focus has always been more about behind the camera

M: Because you have been doing quite a lot sort of maybe under the radar that people wouldn’t necessarily realise with your music videos and your –

A: Commercials and stuff

M: Commercials as well

A: Yes

M: Your Thelma and Louise commercials, is that right?

A: I’ve done a lot of ads here in the UK, yes I’ve done a lot of stuff here in the UK for National Lottery and Peugeot and tonnes and tonnes of spots here, yes

M: And of course I have to say, he’s one of us!

A: That’s right, I am, I am – I’m a Brit, yes it’s true

M: Born and bred

A: Yes

M: He won’t do the accent though because I’ve already asked him

A: No, you move to America you lose the accent in about 15 seconds, yes that’s what happens

M: It’s so true isn’t it?

A: Yes

M: Do keep those questions coming in please do, we’ve got an awful lot still to get through but we are totally live so if you want to ask any of these gentlemen anything at all then please do so. Lee back to you – what would you say is the most exciting part of making the film for you?

L: The most exciting part?

M: Or challenging, maybe challenging?

A: When the air conditioning was working maybe?

L: When it was 115, 115 we were down in this power plant in a basement and they kept pumping in this beautiful, wonderful smoke to give that smoke effect, and it was like – nobody could breathe, that was probably the most exciting

A: It looked great on camera though

L: It did, it looked great, you’ll see

M: I just can’t wait to see all this. And like you say it’s great for your league of fans because you have – my goodness me just hundreds of thousands of fans

L: I don’t have them now

A: They’re all waiting outside the studio

M: They are, can you hear them? Majors, Majors

A: Serious

M: I mean when I said I was coming here today -

L: But I don’t have any 5-12 year olds

A: You do now

L: Because everything was before that, so I’m very happy to gain younger fans

M: Yes

L: You know I just love doing this for children because I don’t see much out there for children these days to watch, especially in the movie area

M: Yes

L: They’re just – either things are too deep, too dark, too sci-fi and this one is just right there, just enough excitement for them I think

M: I mean what an incredible gift for you to give you know your children, your grandchildren – what an amazing opportunity to say “look what daddy did”

A: It was fun – it is fun and it’s fun to get the kids involved you know it’s – we had a lot of kids on the set and there’s a lot of kids you know through the network that are getting involved in the movie here and that whole process is really – it is really fun. You know we have a scene in our movie where Grey Matter goes nuts in a diner and starts attacking all the kids, and we had half of our cast behind the camera, including my son and all his friends throwing eggs and pancakes and – it was just like, you know it was like every day was sort of being you know like being in a playground

M: Excellent

A: Which was nice, yes

M: Right another question – are you ready?

L: Yes

M: This is from Jennifer. “Lee you are such a legend.” Did you know this Lee?

L: No not a legend, I’m just a lucky actor who has done a bunch of series that people have liked

A: That’s the definition of legend I think if you look in the –

M: Yes

L: Iconic, something like that

A: There you go, yes that works

M: She doesn’t leave it there, she does go on to ask “what is your favourite episode of Six Million Dollar Man?”

L: Well naturally it has to be kicking Sasquatch’s behind

A: Yes. Bigfoot

L: Kicking Bigfoot’s behind

M: Yes that’s quite a claim to fame isn’t it?

L: That was a – in that suit was a wonderful man but he was a heck of a big guy –

A: Was it Andre the Giant?

L: Andre the Giant

A: Yes

L: A Frenchman, a wrestler

M: Oh yes I know, yes

L: The big wrestler

M: I know exactly who he is, yes

L: He was quite the Beal and we were – in fact when we were shooting this – show real quick – we were at this power plant and down in this basement as I said and a fellow came to me that worked there and he said “my dad worked here 20 / 30 years ago, 30 years ago and he took these pictures of you while you were here shooting –

A: They shot the Bigfoot episode the same place we shot Ben 10

M: Oh wow

L: I was fighting, I was fighting Bigfoot and he shows me these big pictures that have kind of faded

A: Right where we were standing, it was great

L: Me and Bigfoot going at it, you know – and I’m saying “Alex, it was right here, 30 years ago and I’m back in the same place”

A: Yes the same time of year

L: Thanks a lot

A: 115 degrees

L: Now I’m fighting aliens

A: That’s right

M: Oh how times change

A: Yes it’s just another job

M: You’ve just to go with it

A: But it’s funny because that’s probably the biggest memory from my childhood on TV is that – I mean that was the biggest thing

L: That and the broken nose

A: Yes that and the broken nose! That’s another story that I owe you for my broken nose. I got in a fight with my brother over who was playing Steve Austin and who was playing Oscar when we were kids

L: He lost

A: I lost

M: Oh brilliant – and you lost?

A: That’s why I’ve got this nose, yes it’s all his fault!

M: You know a nose, a strong nose makes a man

A: That’s what – it’s my story and I’m sticking to it

M: Right one final question for you both and it’s from Jason, Jason wants to know or wants to say “thank you for making Ben 10 film, it’s my favourite! Was it really fun to make?”

A: It really was, I mean it was fun. It was hard but it was fun

L: Well I – I had more fun because I worked with the kids and they’re wonderful as you will see when you meet them, but Alex didn’t have a lot of fun. He was under so much tremendous pressure to put this thing together in such a short time and I’ve got to admire him for the job he did, it was a really wonderful job

M: Oh there’s love in the room

A: Ah that’s very sweet. Now it’s worth the broken nose! That’s payback

L: Just sucking up for the next one

A: Yes we start next week – maybe they’ll pay me next week

L: That’s right

A: I’m working on it

M: This one’s a freebie

L: Free yes

M: Well thank you both so much, it was an absolute pleasure to meet both of you

L: Thank you

A: Thank you

M: Thanks for joining us. Right we are now going to be having a look at some exclusive footage, and then on the other side of that you’re going to be meeting the stars of the film. See you in a tick

Video footage

“The Omnitrix is the source of all of Ben Tennyson’s powers”

“Well the Omnitrix as most kids know is the big alien watch that Ben finds in the very first episode which allows him to fend off the DNA of 10 different aliens”

“He turns it until he gets the alien silhouette that he wants, and then he smashes it down”

“We created a bit more of a mystery storyline around the Omnitrix. It has a really cool pay off at the end and tells us a little bit more about what it is and shows us that it goes a little bit farther than anyone ever thought it went in the past”

“At last my great race will rise from its dark sleep”

“For the first time in this movie the Omnitrix stops working due to this alien dude man Eon”

“Shows up in the town, starts blowing stuff up, we don’t know why and during the course of the movie find out it has more and more to do with Ben and more and more to do with Max and more and more to do with the history of Ben’s own town, until we have some fantastic reveals at the end”

“You will no longer be a helpless child, you will be a God, a ruler of worlds”

“My name is Christien Anholt and I play Eon”

“His overall objective is to open a time rift from our galaxy to his galaxy so that they can come into earth and take over”

“I enjoy playing Eon very much, I’ve always been a sucker for Darth Vader so I’m basing a little bit of Eon on Darth Vader, it’s great fun, it’s pretty hot in the costume but yes, it’s a lot of fun”

“What’s about to happen here is inevitable”

“I won’t let you have the Omnitrix”

“It’s everything you’ve ever seen in Ben 10 come to life and that’s the bottom line – it’s all the action, all the characters all the imagination but it’s like you’re Ben, you’re in the driver’s seat”

“Hi my name is Haley Ramm and I play Gwendolyn, Gwen Tennyson. I have had so much fun working on this, everybody is great – Alex Winter the director is really funny and nice and fun to be around”

“Alex, who was your least favourite person in the cast?”

“Mmmm I think it would be the boy that plays Benjamin Tennyson?”

“Other than Benjamin Tennyson, that’s me”

“Oh right!”

“I’m a huge fan of sci-fi, of comedy, of action and I love the show because I watch it with my kid all the time so this was kind of a fun mixture of all these different things and styles that I like to play with anyway”

“Graham who plays Ben is very funny and easy to get along with, and he’s like a big goof ball actually!”

“Sorry if my face is shiny, it’s really sweaty in here because we’re in some sort of nuclear power plant”

“This is the good rust bucket, it’s pretty cool. It’s very old looking and it kind of smells bad”

“Totally screamed like a girl”

“I am a girl”

“You totally just screamed like a boy”

“I kind of think that I am like Gwen a little bit”

“Sweet – you actually look like you know what you’re doing”

“I do know what I’m doing. If you paid attention in class you would too”

“Gwen, I think she has a few tricks up her sleeve, so you’ll have to see the movie to find out!”

M: That looks absolutely fantastic, and now of course we’ve been joined by the stars of the show, Ben and Gwen, otherwise known as Graham Philips and Haley Ramm, but I think we’re going to be calling you Ben and Gwen – is that alright with you two? Thank you so much for coming to join us, we’ve had lots of chats already about crumpets, but now we’re going to get down to business. Look at me giving away all your secrets! First of all I just want to start off by saying how exciting for you both to have the opportunity to play these cartoon characters – but in real life- kind of – real people

H: It’s very exciting and they’re both really good characters, really fun to play

M: So just tell us a little bit about what your characters are like in the film – how would you describe your personality?

G: Well I’d say Ben is really impulsive, like if somebody hits him, he hits them back immediately twice as hard and you actually get to see a lot of that, especially in the diner scene which I’m sure once you guys see the movie you’ll know what I’m talking about, but it’s when I pretty much get revenge upon the bullies, JT and Cash, with Grey Matter, so - it was actually really fun to play someone who was so – for lack of a better word, naughty! Naughty!

M: Naughty

G: That was really fun, that’s what I liked most about Ben

M: Ok. Now am I right in saying that you’re sort of the voice of reason in all of this?

H: Yes, Gwen is very level headed and she always disagrees on Ben’s choices but she’s always there to back him up in the end

M: And are you guys like that when you spend time together in real life? Do you live life on the edge, not taking up too much space and are you always saying whooaa there Graham, think this through?

H: A little bit, I’ve never thought about that but yes

G: I’d say you’re still a little mischievous, you have that side

H: Thank you I guess

M: Yes we won’t give that much away

H: Yes

M: We are totally live of course so if you have any questions at all please please do send them in, we will answer them for you. We’ve had lots, but use this opportunity to get your answers – your questions answered. And Ethan says “hi Ben” – say hi

G: Hello

M: there you go! “Do you like playing Ben?”

G: Yes I had a lot of fun playing Ben, I just said the reason, but it was – it was really fun – I knew that I couldn’t really mess him up because there’s so many people who – you know – love him so much I could – you know I had a lot of weight on my shoulders so when they came to that, so – you know what, it was – it was nerve-wracking at times to make sure I was doing what all of his fans wanted me to do, but overall I had a really great time playing Ben

M: so do you feel then, as you were saying you wanted to make sure you did a really strict portrayal of him, but you must have injected some of yourself into it as well?

G: Yes definitely, you kind of have to do that because I mean that’s basically what the whole movie is about, I mean we’re taking a cartoon series into the real world you know and so you have to make some adjustments to make it fit the real world, which was actually one of the fun things about making the film you know? Don’t you agree we had to take a lot of the things that were like – such as you know Ben wears his lucky shirt every single day in the cartoon series – exactly – and they actually make a reference to that, you know about how stinky it is because he wears it all the time

M: good job they weren’t lucky undies!

H: Good point!

M: So obviously you didn’t wear the same shirt every day, did you?

H: They had like two, right?

G: Yes they had about two different shirts but by the end it was pretty stinky

H: It really was and I don’t think they washed it that much

M: Trust me, you could probably auction that off

G: I’m sure I could

M: Yes to all of you who said “Ben, I love you Ben” – sorry to embarrass you

H: It might still have Ranch dressing and banana on it though

G: Oh yes. One of the shirts was absolutely –

M: Food fight?

G: Yes

M: how much fun was that?

G: That was a lot of fun, we were both off stage but –

H: That was fun, I wasn’t there that day but I really wanted to be there throwing food at people

M: I would have –

H: That was so fun, I wouldn’t have wanted the food thrown at me but I would have thrown at them!

M: It’s always been my dream

H: Yes

M: There’s something great about a food fight, brilliant! Now Luke says and this is for both of you so we’ll start with you “how did you get the part?”

H: Well I got the call from my manager that I had an audition for this and I went in and I got a call back and I actually went back 11 times before I actually got the part

M: Wow

H: I know, and then on the 11th time the casting assistant pulled me aside and she said you know you got the part, right? And I said “I did?” I was so excited

M: Wow that’s a huge amount of work – I would have been like “are you paying me for 11 auditions?”

H: I know and then I think we each read with so many different people for each role

M: But how so satisfying to know that you went through such a difficult time to get it, and that you are absolutely, 100% right for it?

H: It makes it that much better

M: It really does. Now because of – oh and you of course, sorry sir, I’m so sorry – how did you get the part?

G: Well it was basically the same thing as her except I actually only went in 3 times. What was kind of funny was that when I went in there was like – by the last audition there was actually, I think there was only 2 Bens left and so we both read with her personally, and you know at first when you meet someone who you think you might be spending a lot of time with, you’re kind of timid and you’re like “I hope I like her” but when I met her I think we had a lot of fun, we had a lot of things in common so it was really relieving to know that I had a say in the person I was going to be working with

M: Absolutely, and how did you cope with the other actor who was going for Ben, was there lots of “you’re going down fool” – any of that at all?

G: No – you know you see all the other actors who are your age, brown hair –

M: It’s like looking at yourself, in a way?

G: You know it was just kind of, it was completely fine ,we had seen each other before and so you know it’s kind of friendly like you’re always considerate to everyone else and you give them a pat on the back when they get the role and so – but it was really nice to know that I got it

M: Ah what nice people you are! Ok Connor thank you so much for writing, Connor says “how many new characters are in the film?”

H: How many new characters? Well Ben has parents in this one and you’ve never seen the parents in the series

M: Ok

H: And there’s a new villain and his name is Eon and he’s actually very scary

M: Yes I’ve heard all about this Brit

G: He was the only Brit in the cast and crew so –

H: But he’s the only one that happens to not be here, and he’s from here

M: But quite often you do see the baddies in American films being played by us Brits. I wonder why that is?

G: You also see all the smart people played by Brits too, so maybe they’re just extreme on both ends

M: And Eon, is it the introduction of Eon that gets everything kicked off in this movie, because – isn’t everything going quite smoothly and then Eon appears?

H: Yes, Ben is back at home and he thinks that everything’s back to normal for a while but then Eon shows up and then Ben, Gwen and Max have to go off and fight Eon

G: It’s actually kind of funny because during the whole cartoon series it’s during the summer, the whole thing takes place during the summer so you never really see the school aspect which goes back to the real side that you get to see in the movie of what would actually happen when a kid got an Omnitrix, but it’s actually kind of funny because when he goes to school you know he just hates it and he gets bullied and he usually has all these real kid problems, and you know he feels like if he tells everyone that he is a superhero and he’s Ben 10 that they’ll like him more but Grandpa Max, you know puts an end to that really quickly, and so when he finds out that they’re going to have to go on another road trip he’s completely ecstatic and he’s like, you know he like immediately goes and packs his stuff, he’s like “yes I’m going to hunt down another alien” you know, because that’s what he loves doing best

H: Gwen on the other hand it’s all serious, it’s all work for her

M: Ah that’s not fair.

H: I know

M: Well maybe because we’re all working on a sequel – we’ve all come up with an idea that already there’s a sequel. Maybe in the next one, you could be a little bit out there

H: Maybe

M: Saving the day

H: That’d be neat

M: I’ll sit down with Mr Winters, we’ll have a chat about that later on! I’ll make a note of that. James in London – yes in London

G: Oh my gosh

M: “Who is your favourite alien?” Let’s ask you first

G: I’ve never heard that question before!

H: That is totally the most asked question

M: I was going to say, Graham are you being sarcastic?

G: Tiny bit

H: It’s a good question though

G: Well my favourite alien – I’ve kind of been changing it lately but it would have to be Wildmutt because I have two dogs and he kind of – I know he doesn’t exactly have x-ray vision, it’s actually a thermal sensor, but it’s kind of like x-ray vision and that I think would be really awesome so –

M: Is this the spitting, dribbling –

G: Yes the spitting

H: That’s a little gross

G: but people like it

M: Do you sometimes get it in the eye when you’re trying to be serious, it’s a serious scene

H: It’s like come on!

M: Wildmutt’s spitting in my face again – this isn’t good. How about you, do you have a –

H: My favourite and it has always been my favourite is Grey Matter because I think he’s really cute and all of his scenes in this movie are really funny. He’s really fun to watch. He’s very mischievous

M: If you’re ever looking for an alien companion you’d want him to be a funny alien

H: Yes actually the Gwen doll Grey Matter comes on her back so I think I’m supposed to like Grey Matter

M: I’m supposed to so I will! Michael says “did you get to wear a real Omnitrix?” Am I saying that right?

G: Yes, Omnitrix.

M: Phew, ok

G: You’ll get hunted down if you say it wrong

M: I know, I’m feeling the pressure

G: A hoard of Ben Tennysons. Yes it was actually really real, it was heavy, they actually put – had me put my hand in this goop that hardened around the hand, it was quite disgusting. So I think it actually make an Omnitrix from scratch that lit up and did everything except for turn me into an alien, that fit me absolutely perfectly and you know it was really cool. It got kind of – I knew it was taking it a bit too far when I started getting tan lines from the Omnitrix – I’ll remind you we live in California so you get a tan line pretty fast so you know I was getting home every day and I would have like a little –

M: And there it is again. We’re all – I have to say – a little disappointed that you weren’t wearing it today. We were hoping

G: I actually got a tattoo for the Omnitrix

H: Not real

G: I was wearing –

M: Wash your mouth out there

G: Water tattoo – that actually every once in a while I’ll put it on just to you know – so it rubbed off before but I really would love to be wearing it right now

M: Ah, well we’ll just pretend that you are. Now we’ve had a question coming in – oh it’s anonymous, interesting. “I’m glad to see a girl playing a strong character”

H: Me too

M: Isn’t that nice? Oh it isn’t anonymous no, it’s from Mocha Jackson Cook – I’m sorry Marco Jackson it’s not anonymous which he’s glad to see

H: Michael Jackson?

M: No Mocco

H: Oh Mocha – I thought you said Michael Jackson

M: That would be odd! No it’s Mocha Jackson and very pleased to see a girl playing a strong character, what do you have to say to that?

H: I am too, because I don’t think that you see that that much any more, so it was really nice to play a strong character

M: Excellent, and of course behind every good man –

H: Is a good woman –

M: That’ll do, we’re sort of making up the phrase, we’re making it up for us but it’s sort of true. Basically you need her!

G: Exactly

M: You need her sense

H: Otherwise Ben would make really bad decisions

M: Exactly. Now both of you it must have been so exciting to get the chance to work with such a legendary actor as Lee Majors

H: I know

M: What was that like? He’s out there so he can hear you

H: All of my uncles and all of my grandmas and grandpas were like so you got to work with Lee Majors, how was that, they’re always asking about him so –

M: Great. And obviously great for you to have that opportunity to learn from someone whose had so much experience

H: He gives a lot of good advice

G: Yes he’s really – he’s said so many things it’s hard to pick one, but you know he’s just –

M: He’s laughing out there

G: They’re laughing out there

M: He’s said so many things I can’t remember any of them

G: Such as get to work on time, don’t sign up for a movie where your character’s name is in the title unless you really want to work – like Ben 10, Six Million Dollar Man –

M: Oh wow – any more?

G: There’s so many again I can’t remember them, but it was actually – it’s really cool to have someone that you know the elder folk can relate to because when you tell them –

M: I’m only joking

G: Because of course all the people who I tell like parent’s friend and everybody you know a lot of them know Ben 10 because their kids are watching it before school, but it’s – once you say Lee Majors they go absolutely berserk

M: yes I have to say as a 30 year old woman, that’s what really hooked me in, and my flatmate, yes Jono, 30, loves Lee – big Lee fan. Right I’ve got time for one more question, it’s from Kitty and Kitty says “thanks for coming to the UK. When will you be here again?”

H: Hopefully soon, I love it, I could live here

M: Yes? You don’t find it too cold? You don’t find it too cold?

G: No

H: No it’s actually really nice. In California it gets really cool at night so it’s – I’m kind of used to it so I like it

M: Excellent

G: If they made a sequel I would highly suggest that they film the whole thing here

H: Yes – that’d be cool

M: Yes very cool. Well both of you thank you so much, Haley, Graham it was lovely to meet you both

G: Thank you

H: Thank you

M: And do remember of course the premiere, the UK premiere is on Cartoon Network Monday morning 10am, now let me just go through this, you can watch it on Sky 601, you can watch it on Tiscali 312 or Virgin 704 – now hold on one sec – one word, why tune in on Monday morning?

H: Fun and action

M: Fun and action

H: Action packed

M: That’s loads of words – fun, action packed –

H: Exciting

M: Exciting

H: Edge of seat

M: Sssh – I can’t stop her, she’s on fire. So make sure you tune in thank you so much for watching I’ll see you next time bye bye

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