00:00 These are his words, you know,
00:01 and they'll never not be his words.
00:03 So you have to at once acknowledge that,
00:05 but still, you can't just do a shameless Tim Allen impression.
00:09 You have to find a way to add your own interpretation.
00:13 - To infinity.
00:14 - And?
00:15 Obviously, "To infinity and beyond" is the most iconic line,
00:25 and that's one of the most intimidating ones
00:27 just because Tim did such an amazing job with it.
00:30 And I really like what Pixar did
00:33 in terms of understanding why that's the catchphrase,
00:36 that it was with him and Alicia,
00:37 and that was kind of their thing together.
00:40 I just thought that was such a clever spin on it.
00:42 But again, you're trying to find a way to make it your own
00:47 while also honoring the amazing work that Tim did.
00:51 What Tim did is why we love this character.
00:54 - Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
00:55 - Coming to Star Command.
00:57 - Why don't they answer?
00:58 - Oh man, it was a dream come true.
01:00 When I heard about the idea,
01:03 I immediately was like, "Oh my gosh,
01:04 "I really would love to be a part of this."
01:06 And so when I got the opportunity and I got the role,
01:09 I was just thrilled.
01:10 I mean, this is an iconic legacy character.
01:13 It's a film, "Toy Story" is a film
01:15 that I've always known growing up.
01:17 I don't remember really a time without it.
01:19 So to be able to be a part of that story is awesome.
01:22 - Yeah, me too.
01:23 I was honored to be asked,
01:24 and it didn't take much to convince me
01:27 except just hearing the word Lightyear
01:29 and knowing that Chris was gonna do it.
01:31 Yeah, and they were wonderful.
01:33 Again, I went in, I knew nothing.
01:35 I was reading scenes and then halfway through
01:39 trying to figure out still what was going on,
01:41 what the scene was following.
01:43 But despite that, it all works, and it's a great film.
01:48 - Well, I was real excited.
01:52 I was amazed.
01:55 The most difficult thing was getting information
01:58 about the character. - Yes.
02:00 - And the character, they're very secretive.
02:02 I said, "But you gotta tell us."
02:04 Anyway, that was great.
02:08 It was also great that it didn't have any anxiety
02:12 attached to it.
02:14 Just like, "We'd like you to do this."
02:16 And I said, "I'd like to do this."
02:18 And then, "Bob's your uncle."
02:20 That was that.
02:21 - I do this and they shave a little time off my sentence.
02:24 - Okay, and what about you?
02:25 - Well, I thought this was gonna be
02:27 like a fun bootcamp workout thing.
02:29 But it is not.
02:31 - Just talking about it now,
02:33 I was there for "Toy Story" on the ground floor as a kid.
02:37 And if this was double featured with that back then,
02:40 I would have just been on the floor.
02:41 - Oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.
02:43 I mean, that was the goal, was to make a movie
02:47 that would put kids on the floor, as it were.
02:51 That was really our goal.
02:52 They need to be floored by this.
02:54 'Cause that's the way I was for so many movies as a kid.
02:57 And films had a tremendous impact on me.
02:59 And it changed the course of my life.
03:00 And I wanted to do a film like that
03:02 that could do the same thing for a small kid today.
03:05 - Well, it's a weird thing,
03:06 'cause actually Angus said something this morning
03:08 which made me go, "Wow, I hadn't thought about it that way."
03:10 And he's like, "Yeah, but we're now actually
03:12 in the 'Toy Story' universe
03:14 because we are the filmmakers who made the movie
03:17 that Andy saw as a kid."
03:20 And I'm like, "Oh, that's so weird."
03:22 That means that I was living in that universe
03:25 scoring movies and he was...
03:28 It's just, the more you think about it, the crazier it is.
03:31 But it's really cool.
03:31 It's really fun.
03:32 So yeah, and in that, the movie that Andy was watching
03:37 was one of his favorite movies.
03:39 We treated this as the movies that we loved
03:41 when we were kids growing up.
03:42 This was, we were gonna make the movie
03:45 that we would have always loved to have seen
03:48 right alongside of "Star Wars," "Back to the Future,"
03:50 "Gremlins," whatever it is, all of those movies,
03:53 this could have been just thrown in right alongside of them
03:56 in somewhere in the 1980s.
03:58 And we would have been perfectly happy with that
04:00 'cause we love it.
04:01 Everything we do is sort of born out of all of the things
04:04 we watched growing up and all the things we loved.
04:06 And this movie is just a giant love letter to all of that.
04:11 - To infinity.
04:12 - Are you trying to get me to pull your finger?
04:13 - Don't fall for it.
04:14 - No, not like that.
04:16 - Sorry, it's a thing your grandma and I used to do.
04:18 - Yeah.
04:19 - Maurice, Izzy, and Darby are this ragtag group
04:22 of junior rangers who are just,
04:23 they come to Buzz's rescue in his hour of need
04:26 and they're all such a delight.
04:28 What is the most heroic trait that you see
04:30 in your character for Lightyear?
04:32 - In my case, I'd say she's willing to put herself
04:35 in danger to try and protect the others.
04:39 - You there, grab it!
04:42 - It's a violation of my parole!
04:45 - My guy, Mo Morrison, his most heroic trait
04:49 is perseverance.
04:52 He will try and try and try to get,
04:54 to find a use for his pen or for any other thing.
04:59 And he'll try until there is a use.
05:01 - And don't die.
05:02 - Don't die, it's just something you wanna do every day.
05:05 - It's still an objective.
05:06 - If I may.
05:07 - I think Izzy's most heroic trait
05:11 is that she knows how to get her team engaged and empowered.
05:16 She knows how to get everybody involved.
05:18 And I think a team is always the best way to finish a goal.
05:21 - The probability of survival with an inexperienced crew
05:25 is 38.2%.
05:27 - Seems a bit low.
05:28 - We have to talk about Sox.
05:29 - Sure.
05:30 - Because everybody is just over the moon
05:34 for Peter Stone's character.
05:36 How did Sox come into play?
05:40 And why does Andy not have one?
05:42 - Well, we have an answer for this
05:43 that we've recently discovered.
05:44 Andy's mom, it was a very expensive toy.
05:48 It was like the,
05:50 like because it was a talking toy at that time,
05:53 in like 1986, '87,
05:55 it maybe had like a little cassette deck in the back.
05:58 Like it was a little out of the price range
06:01 for that family.
06:03 And so there were plenty of toys.
06:05 And I was talking about,
06:06 we were just talking about this with Michael Cicchino,
06:07 how he and I both wanted an AT-AT from Star Wars,
06:10 from "Empire Strikes Back."
06:11 We never got it.
06:12 It was the one we didn't have.
06:13 So Andy doesn't have all the toys.
06:15 He has some of the toys.
06:16 That's the way it was when I was a kid.
06:18 I had some of the figures,
06:19 and then oddly, my dad and I made all the vehicles
06:23 for things.
06:24 That's the way that I grew up.
06:25 And so that's the idea behind it.
06:27 He didn't have the Sox.
06:29 But Sox was always a sidekick for Buzz.
06:32 Buzz is a side character in "Toy Story."
06:35 So if you're gonna make Buzz a main character,
06:37 he needs a sidekick.
06:38 And that sidekick can't be sarcastic.
06:41 It has to be loyal.
06:42 And I wanted to find something that was naturally funny
06:44 from an animation perspective.
06:46 And animatronic robot cats seemed like the right way to go.
06:49 - It's figures like this that are kind of hard to nail,
06:52 especially on a comedic level,
06:54 because you could very much just have him keep saying,
06:57 "I just want you five minutes."
06:58 And that's the guy.
06:59 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:00 - But there's just such a life to him.
07:01 - Yeah.
07:02 Well, I think because of the voice actor,
07:05 I think that, well, it's the animation.
07:07 Tim Pixton, he's a directing animator.
07:10 He did a lot of the hard work,
07:11 and Michael Comet, who built the character.
07:15 But it was Peter Soane, who is genuinely
07:19 like that kind of appealing, nice guy.
07:22 Like everyone feels, the way they feel about Sox
07:24 is how everyone that knows Pete feels about Pete.
07:26 And so having Peter as the voice takes it a long way.
07:31 It was hard to find someone that was more warm
07:33 in the right way, without feeling sarcastic or cynical.
07:37 And Peter has the ability to be hilarious
07:39 and be totally true.
07:40 And that truth, since comedy is two truths
07:43 that come together to form a new truth,
07:45 Pete has that in spades.
07:47 - Buzz, that was utterly terrifying,
07:49 and I regret having joined you.
07:50 - So you did go in a little cold,
07:53 not knowing many specifics about the role of Zurg.
07:57 - I did not.
07:58 - As you moved forward,
08:00 what helped influence your performance?
08:02 Because I don't think many people realize this,
08:04 you're the second Brolin to play a Disney villain
08:07 besides your son Josh in the Avengers films.
08:09 - Yeah, it's been the talk of the town
08:12 for the last two days here.
08:14 But I don't know that anybody outside know,
08:17 but it sounds like it's gonna be part of the latest news
08:22 that we're gonna finally have it out, you know?
08:25 I gotta start going to Gold's gym and catch up with him
08:28 because this is gonna be one nasty fight.
08:31 - He's already killed half the universe, man.
08:34 I gotta catch up.
08:35 - That's what sequels are for.
08:37 - I mean, I hope so for very selfish reasons.
08:42 There's a lot of room, there's a lot of places to go
08:44 and a lot of great characters in this.
08:46 And so, yeah, I hope we have a chance
08:48 to explore them further.
08:49 - This is exciting, a new adventure.
08:51 - "Lightyear" is the film that Andy watches
08:54 and it inspires the toys.
08:55 - That's right.
08:56 - So your "Lightyear's Buzz Lightyear,"
08:58 Tim Allen is obviously the toy.
09:00 - Right.
09:01 - Do you have any Captain America merchandise
09:03 that has another voice to it?
09:05 And how weird is it?
09:07 - All of the Captain America merchandise has another voice.
09:10 I've never done any voice for any of the toys.
09:13 I don't even know if they can use my voice
09:16 from the films in those toys.
09:17 You know, a funny story, actually,
09:19 there was some toy that they put out
09:22 that they wanted me to do the voice for,
09:24 but I ended up having my brother do it.
09:27 My younger brother, who sounds similar to me,
09:30 is the voice of one of the main original toys
09:34 of Captain America.
09:35 But again, that was one of the reasons
09:37 why I was able to at least wrap my head around this project
09:41 when they explained what it was gonna be
09:43 to understand why maybe it wouldn't be Tim Allen's voice.
09:47 - Okay, you just sent us further down the rabbit hole
09:49 with that because you pulled a Tom Hanks
09:51 because his brother Jim tends to step in for him
09:55 on some of the "Toy Story" projects.
09:56 - Does he?
09:56 Does he sound like Tom?
09:57 I mean, that's an iconic voice.
09:59 I mean, does he sound like Tom Hanks?
10:01 - It's close.
10:02 It's not a one for one, but it's close enough
10:04 that it's never really been distracting.
10:06 - Yeah, yeah.
10:07 - Wow, just the official Disney policy, I guess,
10:10 or if not, it probably should be in the book.
10:12 - Ready, Captain Lightyear?
10:13 - Ready as I'll ever be, Commander Hawthorne.
10:15 - So going back to Hawthorne,
10:17 in the lead up to the film's release,
10:20 Lightyear almost removed an LGBTQ+ moment from the film,
10:24 but then it was reinstated as it was announced.
10:27 What did the cut look like?
10:30 What did the altered version look like
10:31 without that sequence?
10:33 - The montage was in there.
10:34 The whole montage was in there.
10:35 The only thing that changed was the 40th anniversary party
10:40 instead of this.
10:42 - It kind of held hands awkwardly.
10:44 - No, she put her head on her shoulder.
10:46 - No, it was just a, it was a grab.
10:48 It was like a grab and like a, no, she tilted.
10:50 I don't know if it was on the shoulder.
10:51 - Okay, we're gonna sit here and argue about this.
10:53 Anyway, you get the idea.
10:54 - It was a little weird.
10:55 And so it just felt a little bit like, what is that?
10:59 It just felt like something was missing.
11:00 - It's the 40th anniversary.
11:01 You're gonna kiss your spouse.
11:02 - So it was more natural that way.
11:03 And we just wanted to get that in the film.
11:05 - But everything else was the same.
11:07 - But Sox, how long were we gone?
11:08 - Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
11:09 62 years, seven months, and five days.
11:13 - What?
11:14 - I thought of Sox's point of view of the montage,
11:18 of him just like waiting around,
11:19 like killing time, poking at the computer.
11:22 But we haven't--
11:24 - Oh, look at that face.
11:24 - I know, I'd love to.
11:26 - Aw.
11:27 - But we just finished this one.
11:28 Come on, look at what we gave you on Tuesday.
11:31 Come on.
11:32 - I demand a lot, okay?
11:33 You said to us, "In beyond," and that means beyond.
11:36 - Yeah.
11:36 Well, we'll take that under advisement.
11:38 I'm glad to hear that something extra
11:40 would be exciting to you.
11:42 - He's purring.
11:43 He likes it.
11:43 - Sox, do you like that?
11:45 - I do.
11:45 - Huh.
11:46 (dramatic music)
11:49 (upbeat music)
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