00:00These are his words, you know, and they'll never not be his words.
00:03So you have to at once acknowledge that, but still, you can't just do a shameless
00:08Tim Allen impression. You have to find a way to add your own interpretation.
00:12To infinity and...
00:20Obviously, to infinity and beyond is the most iconic line, and that's one of the most
00:26intimidating ones, just because Tim did such an amazing job with it.
00:30And I really like what Pixar did in terms of understanding why that's the catchphrase,
00:36that it was with him and Alicia, and that was kind of their thing together.
00:40I just thought that was such a clever spin on it.
00:42But again, you're trying to find a way to make it your own while also honoring
00:49the amazing work that Tim did. What Tim did is why we love this character.
00:57Why don't they answer?
00:58Oh man, it was a dream come true. When I heard about the idea, I immediately was like,
01:04oh my gosh, I really would love to be a part of this. And so when I got the opportunity and I got
01:08the role, I was just thrilled. I mean, this is an iconic legacy character. You know, it's a film,
01:15Toy Story is a film that I've always known growing up. You know, I don't remember really
01:18a time without it. So to be able to be a part of that story is awesome.
01:22Yeah, me too. I was honored to be asked and it didn't take much to convince me,
01:27except just hearing the word Lightyear and knowing that Chris was going to do it.
01:32Yeah, and they were wonderful. Again, I went in, I knew nothing. I was reading scenes and
01:38then halfway through trying to figure out still what was going on, what the scene was following.
01:44But despite that, you know, it all works. And it's a great film.
01:49Well, I was really excited. I was amazed. The most difficult thing was, you know,
01:57getting information. And the characters, they're very secretive, but you got to tell us.
02:05Anyway, that was that was great. It was also great that it didn't have any, you know,
02:12anxiety attached to it. Like, you know, we'd like you to do this. And I said, I'd like to
02:17do this. And then, you know, Bob's your uncle. That was that. So I do this and they shave a
02:23little time off my sentence. OK, and what about you? Well, I thought this was going to be like
02:27a fun boot camp workout thing. But it is not. Just talking about it now. I was there for Toy
02:34Story on the ground floor as a kid. And if this was double featured with that back then, I would
02:40have just been on the floor. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, that that was the goal was
02:46to make a movie that would put kids on the floor as it were. That was really our goal. You know,
02:52they need they need to be floored by this because that's the way I was for so many movies as a kid.
02:57And films had a tremendous impact on me. And it changed the course of my life. And I wanted to
03:01do a film like that that could do the same thing for a small kid today. Well, it's a weird thing
03:06because actually Angus said something this morning which made me go, wow, I didn't thought about it
03:10that way. And he's like, yeah, but we're now actually in the Toy Story universe because we
03:15are the filmmakers who made the movie that that that Andy saw as a kid. And I'm like, oh, that's
03:21so weird. That means that I was living in that universe scoring movies. And he was there. It's
03:28just it's the more you think about it, the crazier it is. But it's really cool. It's really fun.
03:33So, yeah. And in that the movie that Andy was watching was one of his favorite movies.
03:39You know, we treated this as the movies that we loved when we were kids growing up. This was
03:43we were going to make the movie that we would have always loved to have seen,
03:47you know, right alongside a Star Wars, Back to the Future, Gremlins, whatever it is,
03:52all of those movies, this could have been just thrown in right alongside of them in somewhere
03:57in the 1980s. And we would have been perfectly happy with that because we love it. Everything
04:02we do is sort of born out of all of the things we watched growing up and all the things we loved.
04:07And this movie is just a giant love letter to all of that.
04:11To infinity.
04:12Are you trying to get me to pull your finger?
04:14Don't fall for it.
04:14No, not like that.
04:16Sorry, it's a thing your grandma and I used to do.
04:18Yeah.
04:20Maurice, Izzy and Darby are this ragtag group of junior rangers who are just
04:23they come to Buzz's rescue in his hour of need, and they're all such a delight.
04:28What is the most heroic trait that you see in your character for Lightyear?
04:32In my case, I'd say she's willing to put herself in danger to try and protect the others.
04:40You there, grab it!
04:42It's a violation of my parole.
04:45My guy, Mo Morrison, his most heroic trait is perseverance. He will try and try and try to get
04:55to find a use for his pen or for any other thing. And he'll try until there is a use.
05:01And don't die.
05:03Don't die. It's just something you want to do every day.
05:05It's still an objective.
05:06If I may.
05:07I think Izzy's most heroic trait is that she knows how to get her team engaged and empowered.
05:16She knows how to, you know, get everybody involved. And
05:19I think a team is always the best way to finish any goal.
05:22The probability of survival with an inexperienced crew is 38.2%.
05:27Seems a bit low.
05:28We have to talk about Sox because everybody is just over the moon for Peter Stone's character.
05:35Yeah.
05:36How did Sox come into play? And why does Andy not have one?
05:42Well, we have an answer for this that we've recently discovered.
05:45Andy's mom, it was a very expensive toy.
05:48It was like the, like because it was a talking toy at that time in like 1986,
05:5587, it maybe had like a little cassette deck in the back.
05:58Like it was a little out of the price range for that family.
06:03And so there were plenty of toys.
06:05And I was talking about, we were just talking about this with Michael Cicchino,
06:07how he and I both wanted an AT-AT from Star Wars, from Empire Strikes Back.
06:11We never got it.
06:12It was the one we didn't have.
06:13So Andy doesn't have all the toys.
06:15He has some of the toys.
06:16That's the way it was when I was a kid.
06:18I had some of the figures.
06:19And then oddly, my dad and I made all the vehicles for things.
06:23That's the way that I grew up.
06:25And so that's the idea behind it.
06:28He didn't have the Sox.
06:29But Sox was always a sidekick for Buzz.
06:33Buzz is a side character in Toy Story.
06:35So if you're going to make Buzz a main character, he needs a sidekick.
06:38And that sidekick can't be sarcastic.
06:41It has to be loyal.
06:42And I wanted to find something that was naturally funny from an animation perspective.
06:46And animatronic robot cat seemed like the right way to go.
06:49It's figures like this that are kind of hard to nail, especially on a comedic level.
06:54Because you could very much just have him keep saying,
06:57I just want you five minutes.
06:58And that's a gag.
06:59Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:00There's just such a life to him.
07:01Yeah.
07:02Well, I think because of the voice actor, I think that...
07:06Well, it's the animation.
07:07Tim Pixton, he's a directing animator.
07:10He did a lot of the hard work.
07:11And Michael Comet, who built the character.
07:15But it was Peter Soane, who is genuinely that kind of appealing, nice guy.
07:22Like, everyone feels...
07:23The way they feel about Sox is how everyone that knows Pete feels about Pete.
07:26And so having Peter as the voice takes it a long way.
07:31It was hard to find someone that was more warm in the right way
07:34without feeling sarcastic or cynical.
07:37And Peter has the ability to be hilarious and be totally true.
07:41And that truth...
07:41Since comedy is two truths that come together to form a new truth,
07:45Pete has that in spades.
07:47Buzz, that was utterly terrifying.
07:49And I regret having joined you.
07:51So you did go in a little cold,
07:53not knowing many specifics about the role of Zurg.
07:57I did not.
07:58As you moved forward, what helped influence your performance?
08:02Because I don't think many people realize this.
08:04You're the second Brolin to play a Disney villain
08:07besides your son Josh in the Avengers films.
08:10Yeah, it's been the talk of the town for the last two days here.
08:14But I don't know that anybody outside know.
08:17But it sounds like it's going to be part of the latest news
08:22that we're going to finally have it out, you know?
08:25I got to start going to Gold's gym and catch up with him
08:28because this is going to be one nasty fight.
08:31He's already killed half the universe, man.
08:34I got to catch up.
08:35That's what sequels are for.
08:38I mean, I hope so for very selfish reasons.
08:41Yeah.
08:42There's a lot of room.
08:43There's a lot of places to go and a lot of great characters in this.
08:46And so, yeah, I hope we have a chance to explore them further.
08:49This is exciting.
08:50A new adventure.
08:51Lightyear is the film that Andy watches and it inspires the toys.
08:55That's right.
08:56So your Lightyear's Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen is obviously the toy.
09:00Right.
09:01Do you have any Captain America merchandise that has another voice to it?
09:05And how weird is it?
09:07All of the Captain America merchandise has another voice.
09:10I've never done any voice for any of the toys.
09:14I don't even know if they can use my voice from the films in those toys.
09:17You know, a funny story, actually.
09:19There was some toy that they put out that they wanted me to do the voice for.
09:25But I ended up having my brother do it.
09:27My younger brother, who sounds similar to me,
09:31is the voice of one of the main original toys of Captain America.
09:35But again, that was one of the reasons why I was able to
09:39at least wrap my head around this project when they explained
09:42what it was going to be to understand why maybe it wouldn't be Tim Allen's voice.
09:47OK, you just sent us further down the rabbit hole with that because you pulled a Tom Hanks
09:51because his brother, Jim, tends to step in for him on some of the toy story.
09:56Does he? Does he sound like Tom? I mean, that's an iconic voice.
09:59I mean, does he sound like Tom Hanks?
10:02It's close. It's not a one for one, but it's close enough that it's never really been distracting.
10:06Yeah, yeah.
10:07Wow. Just the official Disney policy, I guess.
10:12Yeah.
10:12Ready, Captain Lightyear?
10:13Ready as I'll ever be, Commander Hawthorne.
10:16So going back to Hawthorne, in the lead up to the film's release,
10:20Lightyear almost removed an LGBTQ plus moment from the film,
10:24but then it was reinstated as it was announced.
10:27What did the cut look like?
10:30What did the altered version look like without that sequence?
10:33The montage was in there. The whole montage was in there.
10:35The only thing that changed was the 40th anniversary party instead of...
10:42They kind of held hands awkwardly.
10:44She put her head on her shoulder.
10:46No, it was just a grab. It was like a grab and like a...
10:49No, she tilted. I don't know if it was on the shoulder.
10:52We're going to sit here and argue about this. Anyway, you get the idea.
10:54It was a little weird. And so it just felt a little bit like...
10:59What is that? It just felt like something you're missing.
11:01You're going to kiss your spouse.
11:02So it was more natural that way. And we just wanted to get that in the film.
11:05But everything else was the same.
11:07But Sox, how long were we gone?
11:08Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
11:1062 years, seven months, and five days.
11:14What?
11:14I thought of Sox's point of view of the montage.
11:18Of him just waiting around, killing time, poking at the computer.
11:23But we haven't...
11:23Oh, look at that face.
11:25I know. I'd love to.
11:26But we just finished this one. Come on.
11:29Yeah, we just... Look what we gave you on Tuesday. Come on.
11:32I demand a lot. Okay.
11:33I know. I know.
11:34You said something beyond and that means beyond.
11:36Yeah. Well, we'll take that under advisement.
11:38I'm glad to hear that something extra would be exciting to you.
11:42He's purring.
11:43He likes it.
11:43Sox, do you like that?
11:45I do.
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