The Toy Story Line That Broke Tom Hanks

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Bring me back to the beginning. How did you become the voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear? [00:00:03] Speaker 2: Watch this. [00:00:04] Speaker 3: Howdy, my name is Woody. [00:00:06] Speaker 2: Two of us in the same Disney. There we go. I am Buzz Lightyear. It's so nuanced, it was impossible. It's been too long, cowboy. I don't know what happened, but it turned out that way. [00:00:15] Speaker 3: And by the way, who was right here? Yeah, come on. Yeah. Hello? [00:00:20] Speaker ?: Oh, yeah. [00:00:21] Speaker 3: Ah! I had a surreal out-of-body experience on what would be the last day of working on Toy Story. When it all ends, I'll have old Buzz Lightyear to keep me company. To infinity. And it'll be us. [00:00:33] Speaker 1: Yes, you got it for me. I have a challenge for you guys. All right, bring it on. OK, so we have five minutes together. You've made five movies, and I have five questions for you, one per movie. OK. Do you think we can tell the audience the entire history of Toy Story, all 31 years, in five minutes? [00:00:47] Speaker 3: Watch this. [00:00:48] Speaker 1: Here we go. OK, first question. Bring me back to the beginning. How did you become the voices of Woody and Buzz Lightyear? [00:00:54] Speaker 3: Jeffrey Katzenberg showed me the voice of Turner from Turner and Hooch put in Woody's body. Oh, you're eating the car! Don't eat the car, not the car! CGI animated. It was all elbows, knees, outrage, and consternation. I said, I'm in. Excellent. [00:01:12] Speaker 2: John Lasseter came to my home, and he showed me a picture of it. The voice that they'd used at the studio was very disc jockey AM radio. To infinity and beyond! And I put a little heart to it so he's a little more delusional. To infinity and beyond! And he liked it, he said, yeah. [00:01:30] Speaker 1: Amazing. Well, Toy Story sounds like it went through a lot of changes, and so did Toy Story 2. I had the pleasure of talking to your brother Jim Hanks about voicing Woody as well. Yeah, yeah. He told me a story I hadn't heard before, that you two are responsible for Toy Story 2 going to theaters. Is that true, and how did that come about? [00:01:44] Speaker 3: All right, they were going to do it, and the economic model back then was just do a quick knockoff, put it right on video, you make a ton of money, and it doesn't cost that much. I had just done a morning recording session, had lunch, waited for Tim to show up, because he was going in in the afternoon, and we were on mic in the studio with Doc Kane, Studio B, and we were comparing notes, because he worked at Disney, and I said, why wouldn't they put this in the theaters, aren't they leaving a ton of money and import out of the formula there? We said, Doc, roll tape, and you and I just had a conversation, play this for Michael Eisner when the time comes around, Michael, Tom here, are you nuts? This thing should be in the theater, and he waxed eloquent on it, and I don't know if they bowed to our will. I don't know what happened, but it turned out they were. And by the way, who was right here? [00:02:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, come on. Yeah, yeah. Come on, people. Yeah, I can't imagine not being in theaters. [00:02:44] Speaker 3: I believe the two of us, same Disney, there we go. [00:02:48] Speaker 1: And then three went to theaters, so my question for three is for you, Tim. I was always wondering, was it ever considered that you would voice Spanish buzz? [00:02:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I did try. They tried it. Really? It was a nightmare, because they had a guy, every word, he'd go. Jesse comes in. Oh, no, no. Jesse. Jesse. And he stood right this close to me, saliva to saliva. I said, you've got to back up a little bit. And Doc said, this is going to take forever. Oh, my gosh. If we do every word, and then you have to put every word in. That's awesome. And they couldn't get Antonio Banderas, because that was Castellano, and Castellano's not exactly Hispanic. Yes. And so they got a Colombian guy, because they called neutral Spanish. They didn't, so they got a Colombian actor to do it. [00:03:30] Speaker 1: Wow. That's awesome. Okay, for "Toy Story 4." Bring it up. Did you recording the finale of "Toy Story 4" cry as much as I did watching it? [00:03:38] Speaker 3: No. It was tougher. He had done it first. Okay. And I sort of got like this cryptic message. We talked about it. Mm-hmm. And I was aware of what was going to become it. But when I saw, when we were at the end of the recording, and it was another four-hour recording session, and I saw what the script was to infinity and beyond. Ah. We were all puddles. Yeah. Lee, the director, was there. We were all right there. And I had a surreal out-of-body experience where my spirit rose up, and I saw all of us in this recording studio on what would be the last day of working on "Toy Story 4" and "Toy Story 4." Wow. It was, I don't remember driving home. I was at another stage thinking that something magnificent has come to its conclusion. [00:04:26] Speaker 1: No doubt. And now we're continuing with "Five." So my favorite scene in "Five" was Buzz Lightyear meeting 50 other Buzz Lighthers. [00:04:34] Speaker 3: That was your favorite scene. [00:04:35] Speaker 1: That was, well, Woody was in it too. Woody had a big part to play. It was fantastic. So I was curious during the scene, did you record one line at a time? Did you have a conversation with yourself in a padded room at Pixar? How did it go? [00:04:47] Speaker 2: They gave like 50 lines, and they would add it when they cut to it. Because they just hit, you've got to say this, this, this, and this. "State your name." And I said, "But there's absolutely no difference." He goes, "I know." So some of them have to be drier than the other ones. They're new at this. So Buzz, it has to be a difference. It's so nuanced. It was impossible. Wow. It was impossible. [00:05:08] Speaker 3: They were not enlightened Buzz. No. Sure, exactly. They were still delusional. [00:05:12] Speaker 2: They're delusional. They think they're space rangers. Yeah. They don't notice that they all look alike. There's some like weird delusion. And then when you see the real Buzz, then he has some power over them. Yeah. [00:05:23] Speaker 1: I love it. I love the movie. We did it. Five questions, five minutes, five movies. Thank you guys so much for your time. Thanks, man. Good looking to you. [00:05:30] Speaker 3: That was great. That was really great. [00:05:32] Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Wow. This coming segment is presented by Sharpie and their new Toy Story 5 collaboration. 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