Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn character interviews

The character interviews are a series of short videos featured in the bonus material for the Special Edition of Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn viewable on Halo Waypoint, focusing on the main characters of the film. There are seven videos in total, including interviews with cadets Thomas Lasky, Chyler Silva, April Orenski, Michael Sullivan, Walter Vickers, Junjie Chen and Dimah Tchakova.

Parts of the interviews are also featured in the Squad promotional video.

Cadet Thomas Lasky
''"My name is, uh cadet Thomas Lasky, and I'm, uh, a cadet….Freshman. My older brother he's a....who's on duty at the moment, uh, fighting. Not sure where he is actually, but he, uh, he trained here and he studied here as well. It's a little tough following in, uh, in Cadmon's footsteps, y'know, he was quite popular here he kinda kept his head down and he really pushed through and he, um, I think he was, y'know, a lot of the teachers' favorites, as opposed to me. Sometimes I have second guess things and second think a lot of the stuff  that I'm learning here. Of course I'm no, I'm no Cadmon Lasky. I'm just, you know, I'm me. The academy is tough in itself it's such a strict and hostile environment, y'know, we're trying to learn how to go into battle and essentially kill somebody, um, and we don't really have a choice. We're killing them so I guess that's why they're killing us. Y'know, in ten years time, we could still be....I could be dead by then, I could have gone into battle and died for a cause that I don't really believe in."''

Cadet Chyler Silva
''"I'm Chyler Silva and I'm a Freshmen cadet at Corbulo Academy of Military Science. I sorta always knew that I wanted to be military. It was a pretty natural choice given my parents, I suppose. I mean, if you know that you want to be on the battle field then everything you do here is not just school, it's training to stay alive and to be able to do the job that you need to do to protect the lives of other people. Corbulo is one of the best places to do it. Uh, it's tough, I mean it's tough to get in but if you know that you want to be a soldier then it's a pretty great place to be. I grew up around a lot of Innie violence, um, and not just violence towards military targets. Civilians where I lived really had to learn how to protect themselves. We had a bomb shelter where we lived. There was one for the people in our neighborhood and, um, he wanted us to be able to get there quickly in the event of a real bombing. So, my dad would race me and my brother Grayson and if you beat him then you got to stay up half an hour past bedtime. Y'know, it was....it was just part of life on Cygnus. My cousin's school was bombed when I was around ten and hundreds of children were killed. It's not the kind of war that we should be fighting but it's the kind of war that they're forcing us to fight now. Physically, it's tough. It's demanding, I mean basic training is pretty grueling and, y'know, a fair number of people leave during that initial phase. But it should be tough! I mean, as soon as I lose a bruise another one appears and that's the way it should be. They're like little purple merit badges that mean your doing a good job. Because it shouldn't be easy to be a soldier, it should be difficult and that's what makes it such a great job. That's what makes me proud to be training to do this, it's because it is hard and that means that the end result is gonna be something to be proud of."''