Backstage at Pixar! Inside the Making of Toy Story 5

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Right now on On the Red Carpet. [00:00:03] Speaker 2: Our mission on this planet is to make a child happy. [00:00:06] Speaker 1: The Toy Story crew has their toughest mission yet. Competing with screen time. [00:00:11] Speaker 3: Bonnie needs help from someone, at least from the same century. [00:00:15] Speaker 1: So long, toys. We're taking you behind the scenes at Pixar Animation Studios for a special look at the making of Toy Story 5. Plus, our interviews with the cast get crazy. [00:00:28] Speaker 4: It was so crazy, it made me poop my pants. [00:00:32] Speaker 1: Also, step inside the celebration at the world premiere in Hollywood. Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift enter their Toy Story era and how you can experience your own Pixar adventures at Disney parks. From the Pixar Animation Studios, this is On the Red Carpet presents Toy Story 5. [00:00:55] Speaker 5: Hello and welcome to this special episode of On the Red Carpet from the world-famous Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California. Today we're taking you inside this incredible campus where some of the most memorable characters in movie history were brought to life. You could say this is the studio that Buzz and Woody built, and now the toys are back in town for Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th. [00:01:22] Speaker 6: Halt! Who goes there? [00:01:25] Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa! I come in peace? [00:01:28] Speaker 2: It's been too long, cowboy. [00:01:30] Speaker 5: Toy Story 5 reunites Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the gang, but oh, how times have changed. Someone needs a brown marker. And it's not just Woody's new bald spot. [00:01:42] Speaker 3: Bonnie, there's a package for you. Oh, thank you, thank you! Hi there, I'm Lily Pat. Let's play! [00:01:51] Speaker 5: Extinction, not again! Yes, tech has entered the chat. Could playtime be replaced with screen time? [00:01:59] Speaker 7: I want to talk to you, device. Please, call me Lily. Me and the toys have been working all summer to try and get Bonnie to make friends, but then you had to ruin it. [00:02:08] Speaker 3: You're not even listening to me! I'm always listening. See? Now look here, me and the toys have been working all summer. Now in Spanish. What? [00:02:17] Speaker 4: Yeah, I got dibs on behind the dresser. We're gonna need backup. [00:02:21] Speaker ?: You gotta play! No way! [00:02:25] Speaker 7: It's awesome. Bonnie still needs us! Come on, Bullseye! [00:02:30] Speaker 2: Buzz, you stay here. I'm going with them. You don't think I can do it? Yes! No! Nice poncho. It's good to see them fighting again. [00:02:40] Speaker 5: It sure is. Woody and Buzz really are an iconic duo, as are the stars who've voiced them for more than 30 years, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen. This movie is poignant. It gets to you. But can it get to two tough guys like you? Do you get weepy? Oh, God. [00:02:59] Speaker 2: It was, uh, because we don't get to see it. You hear that, you read the scene, that she looks, holds the doll, and she gets unfriended, but you can read by it, because we got to get to what we react to it, because it's just a cut to us going, oh, no, where I can't remember the line. And then I see it. I'm in that room, and I'm, I really teared up. I could have done that next thing where you snivel, and then you burst into tears. It was so effective. We've been looking at each other during screenings with tears on our eyes. Yeah. Let's see what it does. Very well. I don't like to say well done, because it's sad. It just showed that animation can still grab the emotion. [00:03:36] Speaker 4: and it was an amazing piece of business. And you know, it's not, it doesn't come out of dialogue. It comes out of, like, in this particular movie, when, when Bonnie has her feelings hurt by what is being texted about her on her device, it broke my heart. Me too. And there's no dialogue in it. It's just, it's just the, the beauty of the filmmaking and the involvement of the story. And tech scares me. I don't know if it scares either of you. I've turned off my comments years ago, so no one, I, I don't get my feelings. [00:04:04] Speaker 2: I find it courageous that Disney and Pixar are handling the situation that they helped create. So, you know, they do tech. This is about this. And I bet you they'll sell that Lily Pack. They'll end up having that as at least a cover for an iPad. Oh, probably a cover for an iPad. Well, and I said, they did it in a way that lets you decide. There's a, you know, Lily Pack comes around. It has enough of a look at itself. It says, I can hurt, but I also can help. [00:04:30] Speaker 5: Is this the honor of a career, a responsibility, a duty now, because there are so many fans? [00:04:36] Speaker 4: What does this represent to you? I would say two out of those. Two out of those. It is an absolute honor to have had this responsibility put on us. And we do not, we do not take it lightly. We were in England [00:04:49] Speaker 2: and the crowd at, what, that stadium? We're at 68,000 soccer fans. And some of them, when you're waving, these kids are going, who are those two old men out there? And a certain age group below has no idea it's Tim Allen, Tom Hanks. Then just above it, oh, those, those are the guys that play Woody. And then the older people, we identify us with those characters. Some of the best movements this is when Buzz isn't talking. So I got to respect that. This is an animator here at Pixar [00:05:17] Speaker 5: that did that. As the years go by and you see your characters again and again and there's a little wear and tear, what do you look at now when you see these guys on screen? [00:05:27] Speaker 2: This is a romantic character. I'm a classic character. Classic takes, listens to the romantic, let's do this. We've got to do this. It gets all excited with the flailing arms and Buzz goes, I have no idea what he's talking about. But given a moment to think about it, how will I process this romantic, this must get done, but I can't do it like that. There's no way, Woody. I love that process. Much like Woody, [00:05:50] Speaker 4: I periodically take a dark Sharpie felt tip pen and fill in my cradle. Did you think that would get all the attention it's getting already? Oh, God. Well, it was a big laugh. It was a huge laugh. It would have been fine if it didn't blind everything. That was the best part of all of it. Oh, oh, oh, oh. [00:06:10] Speaker 2: You guys are great. [00:06:11] Speaker 5: Tim and Tom are both so funny to talk with, I had to ask them about some bathroom humor in Toy Story 5, courtesy of the new potty training toy voiced by Conan O'Brien. [00:06:23] Speaker 8: It's smarty pants. Hygiene instructor. He'll wipe your head. [00:06:27] Speaker 2: Why do we love a poop joke? What's not funny? I mean, I've said this with all my friends. I did an NFL banquet. There's nothing funnier than poop's precursor, which is a gas. There's nothing. I don't know what it is. Women don't think it's funny. Nobody thinks it's funny, but the noise of a fart is something to do. There's nothing not funny about it. [00:06:48] Speaker 4: I think it's, I think it's the most descriptive explanation, a description of what you with it. It was so crazy, it made me poop my pants. Now that is crazy. [00:07:00] Speaker 5: Along with Conan O'Brien as smarty pants, Bad Bunny also makes his Toy Story debut as pizza with sunglasses. But it's another music star, Taylor Swift, who had everyone talking at the world premiere. Taylor releasing a new song, I Knew It, I Knew You for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack. [00:07:26] Speaker 9: It's raised so many kids just like me. Like, I watched Toy Story when I was five, and I've watched every single one of the films so many times. [00:07:35] Speaker 5: You're the leading lady of Toy Story 5. [00:07:38] Speaker 9: Never thought I'd be [00:07:39] Speaker 7: the leading lady, and this is such a great movie. [00:07:43] Speaker 5: What do you want out of this [00:07:44] Speaker 4: for the audience and maybe even for yourself? Oh, the same thing that I still seek when I go to a motion picture anyway. Something bigger than myself that I can take home. It's clever, it's warm, [00:07:57] Speaker 2: and it's from a kid's point of view. [00:07:59] Speaker 8: Because the fact is, Pixar wouldn't tell another story if they didn't have a story to tell. They never lose sight of the fact that it has to be an amazing story. [00:08:07] Speaker 5: Are you like Bonnie? [00:08:09] Speaker 10: I am. Well, we're both eight. I'm about to turn nine on Friday. We both love playing dress-up, meeting new friends, and playing with toys and having big, and when I mean big, I mean big imaginations. [00:08:22] Speaker 5: It was a very fun red carpet, and right afterwards, one more big surprise. Taylor Swift taking the stage with Randy Newman. Some folks might be [00:08:33] Speaker 11: a little bit smarter than I am. No one's smarter here. Big ain't stronger too, baby, but none of them will ever love you the way I do. [00:08:47] Speaker 1: It's me and you, boy. Coming up, a nostalgic look back at the original Toy Story premiere. Plus, I was so excited they did a Jessie movie. Joan Cusack and Greta Lee set aside their on-screen feud as Jessie and Lilypad. [00:09:05] Speaker 3: We're all genuinely so proud of this movie. [00:09:08] Speaker 12: Want to go inside your favorite Pixar movie? Well, we're at the Disneyland Resort where the Pixar fun blasts off to infinity and beyond. [00:09:16] Speaker 7: I'm going to have some words with this Lilypad and let her know how things are run around here. [00:09:29] Speaker 2: Try to stay calm, Jessie. [00:09:31] Speaker 7: Buzz, you know me. I'm the definition of calm. [00:09:35] Speaker 2: That's not going to work. [00:09:37] Speaker 5: Toy Story 5 is the first film in the franchise centered largely around the cowgirl, Jessie. For more on that, here's Alicia Vitarelli. [00:09:47] Speaker 13: Hi, George. In this new movie, Jessie, voiced by Joan Cusack, is on a mission to save Bonnie from that interloping tablet lily pad voiced by Greta Lee. I sat down with Joan and Greta here at Pixar Animation Studios. [00:10:05] Speaker ?: Hi. [00:10:06] Speaker 3: What the? Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. Sleep mode, you know? [00:10:10] Speaker 13: This one is for the ladies. We've got a new sheriff in town. [00:10:13] Speaker 3: Yeah. That's right. [00:10:15] Speaker 7: Totally, totally. It's a lady story with a lady sheriff. I was so excited they did a Jessie movie. I mean, it was so thrilling. Because I felt like there was a story there and a story for girls. So, and they did such a good job with it. [00:10:35] Speaker 13: Did you see it? Oh, my gosh. It was amazing. I'm going to tell you, I think that, you know, the parents are obviously going to feel something. I think the kids are going to have an awakening as well. [00:10:47] Speaker 3: Yeah. [00:10:48] Speaker 13: Hopefully. Yeah, we're counting on it. [00:10:50] Speaker 3: It's the best. This is the best group. It's the best world of characters. The storytelling, all of it. And I'm just, we're all genuinely so proud of this movie. Yeah. It feels important, which is kind of crazy to say. Not touching. Jessica. [00:11:07] Speaker 14: She used the J word. Scandal. Hi. [00:11:11] Speaker 7: Come on. [00:11:12] Speaker 13: Everyone needs a Jessie to fight for them. Everyone. Yes. Everyone, yeah. [00:11:15] Speaker 7: Yes. And it's like, she's like a great parent, you know? Because she notices. She's like, what does my kid need? [00:11:25] Speaker 3: Yeah. [00:11:25] Speaker 7: And then she fights for it. You know, my kid needs a friend, but not just anyone. The right friend. Like a real friend. [00:11:34] Speaker 3: It's like true love, like finding a true love match for your own kid. Yes. [00:11:38] Speaker 13: Yeah. Amazing. And then the thing about tech is that it's not going anywhere. No, it's not. So I feel like Lilypad may be a little misunderstood. [00:11:47] Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. But I like that they are really not shying away from the reality of the whole situation. And we're seeing that kids just like don't even play with toys. They don't have playtime. All of that is real. So I like and can appreciate that the movie is talking about wealth. So what do we do with that? [00:12:07] Speaker 7: Just laugh with your friends more. [00:12:09] Speaker 3: Yeah, laugh for real without using the [00:12:12] Speaker 15: ha ha ha. [00:12:13] Speaker 3: Yes. [00:12:13] Speaker 15: Up next. This is a first, I think, for the Toy Story franchise. [00:12:19] Speaker 1: The Toy Story 5 filmmakers on switching things up. Plus. This is an original storyboard from Toy Story 2. A special look inside the Pixar Animation Studios archives. Want to put away the screens and bring back playtime in your house? Check out the new Toy Story 5 toys now available. Find this movie merch at retailers nationwide or scan the QR code on your screen to shop more now. Whoa! Whoa! Oh, yeah! [00:12:55] Speaker ?: Ha ha ha ha! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Oh. Ha ha ha ha! [00:13:00] Speaker 5: The first two Toy Story movies came out before there was an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. But both Toy Story 3 and Toy Story 4 won that award. In fact, Pixar has won Best Animated Feature at the Oscars 11 times more than any other studio. We got a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process here. The Pixar Archives team pulling out early concept art of the characters, including from the first Toy Story when Woody was initially going to be a ventriloquist dummy and Buzz Lightyear was originally called Lunar Larry. [00:13:41] Speaker 16: This is an original storyboard from Toy Story 2. [00:13:45] Speaker 5: Toy Story 2 is when we first met Jesse in Bullseye. The Pixar archives contain thousands of drawings as the team worked to get their designs just right. [00:13:56] Speaker 16: The artists will create about maybe 100,000 storyboards per film. Only 20,000 maybe represent a final film. So there's that many that get created that just get omitted. But we keep all of it and oftentimes they'll revisit on future films. So we have many artists that can actually say, I drew something on Toy Story 3, I remember, and I'd love to look at it for this next film. And they can come to us and we can do that research and find it and work with them. [00:14:22] Speaker 5: Upstairs at Pixar, the artwork from Toy Story 5 is on display. You can see how the team worked to perfect each character and setting for the movie. They also create models to take their drawings from the paper into the 3D world of computer animation. Okay. Come on, lily pad. The last stop on my Pixar tour, meeting a giant lily pad was a bit intimidating at first. You know technology scares me. But after some early struggles with the touch screen, Oh, there we go. I eventually took on lily pad at a game of tic-tac-toe and showed tech he's the boss. The Pixar campus is closed to the general public but you can join Woody, Buzz, Jessie and their Pixar pals at the Disneyland Resort in Southern California. Our Ashley Mackey is there in Anaheim. Hi, Ashley. [00:15:20] Speaker 12: Hi, George. and welcome to Disney California Adventure Park. I'm at Pixar Pier where Toy Story and other iconic Pixar favorites jump off the big screen for a real world adventure and you get to be the star. From meeting favorite characters to rides like Toy Story Midway Mania and Jessie's Critter Carousel. Yeah! There's something for every Toy Story fan here. Of course, it's not just Toy Story. Pixar fans can also enjoy the thrilling Incredicoaster or the Pixar Pal-around Ferris wheel here on Pixar Pier or race friends and family in the nearby Cars Land. And there's lots of Toy Story themed foods from the Forky Cake Pop to the Lotso Rice Krispies Treat which, yes, does taste like strawberries and you got the Poultry Palace chicken and, of course, the Señor Buzz Churro. Mmm. I also love this Toy Story themed horse racing game. Look at that food! [00:16:27] Speaker ?: Yee-haw! [00:16:28] Speaker 12: But my favorite may be all the shopping. Okay, see? I love to collect my little Christmas ornaments. You really can't go wrong with a Pizza Planet shirt. There's a snake in my boot! Oh! You need a forky hairbrush. Obviously. So cute. He smells like strawberries. We love Lotso. He's just a little misunderstood. Eventually, I decided to get ears but couldn't pick between Woody and Slinky Dog. Gotta get both. I wore those new Slinky Dog ears when I interviewed the Toy Story 5 filmmakers. What sets this movie apart from the other four Toy Story movies? [00:17:09] Speaker 14: Well, we've always embraced time with these movies and let things progress forward. So Bonnie's gotten older and devices are in her life now and that's what's been happening for almost the last 10 years in the real world. So we were just trying to catch up in time to just show like this is what it's like for a toy now. Their shelf life is so much shorter and they're freaking out. [00:17:30] Speaker 12: The idea to center on Jessie's story and backstory. [00:17:34] Speaker 17: You know, Andrew was a part of the writing teams for, you know, all the Toy Stories so far and he was a big proponent of Woody handing the badge to Jessie at the end of Toy Story 4 and I'm so glad that you did that because she has always been one of my favorite characters in part because she has this depth and she has, we kind of know more about her than we do about a lot of the other characters and we both agreed, you know, all three of us agreed that she has more to learn and has more to explore and she's just so stinking fun. Like she is a fun, crazy, kind of messy heroine to focus on and it brings a great energy [00:18:11] Speaker 12: to the movie. One thing that I've kind of noticed is that we're getting to see the child more. Yes. This is a first, [00:18:18] Speaker 15: I think, for the Toy Story franchise. The toys have really focused on what's going on with the kid and with Bonnie and they're worried about it. That's a big change for Toy Story. I think it's really great, actually. It kind of lets you tell the story from two different perspectives. We're kind of very much sympathetic or empathetic about what Bonnie's going through and then we get to see that also from the toy's perspective. [00:18:40] Speaker 12: Switching gears, I know you guys noticed my slinky. Yes. How does it make you feel when you're walking through Pixar Pier or just around the parks and you see people in real life interacting with these characters? [00:18:52] Speaker 14: It's so wild. I got used to a long time ago sort of disassociating that I had anything to do with them because they get owned so quickly in the most honest way, in the most loving way that it means so much that it feels like it's your slinky, it's your Woody, it's your Buzz. In the best way. [00:19:09] Speaker 17: I was walking around the park and I saw Jessie yesterday and I got shy. I got so shy. I was like, you're my boss. [00:19:16] Speaker 15: What am I going to say? [00:19:17] Speaker 14: I was saying, you're her therapist and she doesn't know it. [00:19:20] Speaker 15: Yeah, exactly. It's never more kind of impactful than it is at the parks, kind of the impact of what our stories are and what they've brought to people. But when we come into the parks and kind of walk around and see them kind of out there living in the world, it is real and it feels, it's really special. I don't know, you feel it, I feel it when I walk around. [00:19:41] Speaker 12: It was so fun talking with the Pixar team. They are truly geniuses. But now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go ride the Incredicoaster again. I mean, as long as I'm here, right? [00:19:52] Speaker 1: Oh, you have fun, Ashley. Still ahead, we'll flashback more than 30 years to the original Toy Story premiere. [00:20:01] Speaker 14: Ha-ha! [00:20:02] Speaker 5: As we mentioned earlier, the original Toy Story came out before there was an Oscar for Best Animated Feature, but it was such a groundbreaking film, the Academy honored it anyway with a Special Achievement Award. We were there when the film debuted more than 30 years ago. From our video vault, here's what it looked like when the first Toy Story premiered in 1995. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen were there along with the late Don Rickles, the original voice of Mr. Potato Head, and Jim Varney, the original voice of Slinky Dog. Hanks was fresh off back-to-back Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, and Allen was starring in the top-rated ABC sitcom Home Improvement. Plus, their films, The Santa Claus and Apollo 13, were battling for the number one rental at video stores, which may explain their friendly rivalry. No, this is the perfect time to panic. [00:21:11] Speaker 6: I'm lost. Buzz is shiny steel and plastic bubbles and he moves and flies against wings and it's a new tech toy versus one that should be discarded. [00:21:22] Speaker 11: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, a laser. It's not a laser. [00:21:25] Speaker 18: Buzz is a twit in a lot of ways. He looks like he's a hero, but in fact, Buzz is a thin-skinned piece of plastic that only costs about 45 cents to make, but they sell them for $22.95. Woody is a arrogant, [00:21:45] Speaker 6: thin, ugly, misshapen toy, which is why we went with Hank's because it seemed to fit. Buzz, on the other hand, is robust, vital, virile, handsome. Boy, handsome. Did I say handsome? [00:22:02] Speaker 5: They've been making us smile and laugh for a long time and there's more to look forward to with Toy Story 5. It's in theaters everywhere June 19th. Be sure to follow On the Red Carpet for more entertainment news and we'll see you next time on The Red Carpet. [00:22:18] Speaker ?: Woo-hoo! [00:22:19] Speaker 7: Yee-haw! [00:22:20] Speaker 5: Woo-hoo! [00:22:21] Speaker 7: Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Ha-ha! [00:22:23] Speaker ?: Wah!