30 Years of Woody & Buzz: The Toy Story 5 Interview 🤠🚀

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: I did a bar! In my lifetime! In my lifetime! I don't know what it is about passing gas. Is this constantly with you? And I go, what? We all heard that. Yeah, it was a pretty good one, wasn't it? [00:00:11] Speaker 2: Firstly, huge congratulations on the movie. I saw it a couple of nights ago, and I will proudly admit that I cried twice. Ah, twice! Twice, yeah. And I did too. I did too. Wow. Two times myself. I'm in great company. Oh, yeah, yeah. Secondly, Tom, huge congratulations to Aston Villa. I did a bar! In my lifetime! [00:00:29] Speaker 3: In my lifetime! Premiership fans can understand what I mean by that, right? I know, right? You know? Never thought it would happen, and holy cow, I knew it all along. I've known it since 1985, don't you realize? [00:00:43] Speaker 2: There we go. Are you aware of Tom's love for Aston Villa? [00:00:46] Speaker 1: Oh, sure. I have no idea what you're talking about. What are we talking about? We're an English football team who won... Soccer, sort of thing we're talking about. Now we're talking about football because you actually hold the football. [00:00:58] Speaker 3: No, I have no idea. Villa Park, Aston Villa is the oldest organized football club. And they've done well, are they in the finals or something like that? [00:01:07] Speaker 2: They just won a European trophy. Yeah. [00:01:08] Speaker 3: Oh, good. Well, congratulations. Does that take you to anything? The UEFA Cup is one of the 19 cups that are available in order to win if you have a professional soccer football club. [00:01:18] Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah. I will talk about the movie now. Okay, very good. God bless you. Thank you for that. So very early on in the movie, we get to see a throwback to an iconic scene with Jesse. And that original sequence is one of my favorite moments in the entire Toy Story franchise. Do you two have a favorite sequence in the Toy Story series? [00:01:35] Speaker 3: I'm going to say, you want to go first? No, go ahead. I'm going to say the moment when they are about to be incinerated that goes on for minutes and minutes and minutes and minutes and not a word is said. Inside those minutes, that sequence of film, is the importance of all humanity, love, and connection told by way of a bunch of toys who are going to be essentially discarded. I've never seen anything like that in any motion picture, much less one that I'm in. [00:02:03] Speaker 1: Didn't the little green things have something to do with saving us? They did, yeah. Oh, that club. No, but they helped us. They helped us. When I got the script for 4 and I read the very end of it, I went, I gasped at the end of it because it was just dot, dot, dot to infinity and beyond. And I had a real tough time and I did it and I said, wow, what a clever, horrifying thing to say. And I had a terrible time in the recording session and got a hold of him. I said, have you just done this end yet? And he goes, no. And then we talked after that. He had to turn around. When I said it to Doc, our engineer, I had a real tough time. We carried this emotion with us into this. [00:02:46] Speaker 3: So when they came to it, yet the next one, another toy store, I said, are you guys sure? And I'm going to say there's three moments in this where I said, I cannot believe they came up with it. I know, that is astounding. [00:02:59] Speaker 2: Yeah. The group chat, the time capture. [00:03:01] Speaker 3: And I'll just say the horses. They were great. Yeah, they were great. I'll say that. That was really weird. I literally said, okay, aren't you Mr. Smarty Pants? That's what I said to Andrew as he showed it to our director and boss. Well, aren't you guys just Mr. Smarty Pants? [00:03:19] Speaker 2: So, Tom, one of my favorite things about this movie was seeing Woody really enjoying his old man toy era. Oh, yeah. Have you picked up any older man habits recently that your younger self would be? [00:03:30] Speaker 3: Oh, I'm celebrating each and every one of them. Because absent, you know, taking a cigarette out of my mouth and grinding it, I said, well, you know, son, one of the things I've learned over the stuff that... [00:03:42] Speaker 2: So much wisdom. Yeah, yeah. [00:03:44] Speaker 3: I'm now this dad. Did my kids say, dad, if you mention embracing the paradox one more time, I'm going to slug you. I said, but guys, that's the answer to everything. I've learned this in the course of my 69 plus years. [00:03:58] Speaker 2: How about you, Tim? [00:03:59] Speaker 3: I don't know what you want to get into. [00:04:00] Speaker 1: It's just making me angry. Every time I get up, my youngest always goes, here. I mean, if I pause even a second to get out of a chair, my youngest will go, oh. Don't do it. Stop. Stop. Yeah. She goes, look. And then, I don't know what it is about passing gas when you get older, but you don't even seem to care about it at a certain age. And I'll just wander around. She goes, is this constantly with you? And I go, what? We all heard that. And I go, well. Yeah, it was a pretty good one, wasn't it? But I'm over by the kitchen counter. I was way away from everybody. She goes, everybody hears this. And it just, there's a certain age you just, I'm not going to hold it because I'll explode. I don't know what it is. [00:04:42] Speaker 2: I'm going to say you've earned it. I still don't understand. [00:04:45] Speaker 1: The women in my life, it's all girls. I don't think they ever fart. I've never heard any of them ever fart. [00:04:52] Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite exclusives ever, by the way. That's amazing. Tim, there's a whole Buzz Lightyear movement at the start of the movie. And they are really exploring the human world. And I'd love to know where has been the most remote place or the most surprising place you guys have been recognized as Woody and Buzz? Because obviously, you do a lot of live actions, but the voices are so iconic as well. [00:05:12] Speaker 1: And I go, I'm almost the opposite. It's that there's places I have a home in Mexico, and there's certain places that they do not use our voices. And in every other, even in Japan when I was there, they knew who I was. You get, and there's certain parts of Mexico where I've been there, and they know all my movies. And then I sometimes don't like to talk in a restaurant because it'll get attention. And so I kind of did. I go, hey, hey, you know everybody. Hey, hey. Hey, and I was sitting, no, nothing. Nothing. Silence. I went, what in the, Sam, help? It had no accent. And of course, here it's English, or a version of English. [00:05:52] Speaker 3: I call it bangers and mash. Over here you're talking bangers. But you go ahead. On the other side of the world, I was actually talking to my family on, you know, and I was on the phone for about 20 minutes. And then at the end of it, someone came by and said, excuse me, you're Woody, aren't you? And I said, how in the world did you make me? He said, well, we heard your voice. And, you know, I said, oh, Woody must be talking to his wife. You know, I said, okay, yes, I was. So, all right. Oh, that's so lovely. Once you open your mouth, man, you're made. [00:06:22] Speaker 2: That's amazing. And finally, I can't believe it's been over 30 years since the first Toy Story came out. And honestly, it's very rare for a franchise to keep the same love and magic that it has with its fans after so long. What do you think the secret is to Toy Story's magic? [00:06:36] Speaker 3: The friendships that pick up right where they left off. You know, we have gone. You know, the first Toy Story movie was called Toy Story. Then the numbers that come after them almost don't matter because you just landed some other chapter of this friendship. The story is never repeated outside of that bond that goes in between all of us. [00:06:57] Speaker 1: Good way to put it. In Seven Samurai, that movie in film school, I recognize those characters. Subtitles, samurai, black and white, but you understand the comic relief, the serious one that's going to change, the one that's evil but not very evil. People have copied it. The elements in Kurosawa, great storytelling from way back when. Highlights on friendships. They're natural. They're not forced friendships. There's something about each one of the characters, the toys in the background. Every one of them says something that a part of somebody goes, I'm that guy. I'm that guy. I realize this. And then the two of the Woody and Buzz and all the other actors, it resonates friendship. [00:07:35] Speaker 2: I'm just trying to think of it as a clever football analogy, but I can't think of one. Oh boy, here we go. Off the top of my head. [00:07:40] Speaker 3: You've got to assemble that squad. They're legendary for the rest of time. How about that? Wow. Wow. [00:07:47] Speaker 2: That's pretty amazing to me. [00:07:48] Speaker 3: This is freaking brilliant. Who would think of that? Will Villa's 2016 ever be topped in the history of the game? I'm not so sure. Not with that UEFA cup under their... [00:07:59] Speaker 1: All these words that you come up with, I have no clue. You've got to get out a little more. [00:08:04] Speaker 3: Oh, get out. [00:08:05] Speaker 2: You've got to get out a little more. Thank you so much, gentlemen. Pleasure. Pleasure to talk to you both. Thanks. It's Poncho. It's good to see them fighting again. It sure is.