00:00It's one of the joys of being an actor is sometimes you meet people that are just
00:09extraordinarily talented and it's just like wow. Joan Greta, lovely to meet you both,
00:14congratulations on the movie. Joan, I'll start with you, you've starred in some movies that
00:20have meant an awful lot to me over the years. I love Nine Months, Adam's Family Values,
00:25you're in Klaus and High Fidelity and these movies are kind of the movies that make you
00:29love movies. But very quickly, can we show a bit of love to toys? It's a film you made
00:34with Robin Williams and Barry Levinson. Love that movie. I love that movie. I think people
00:39who really love that movie really love that movie. And like Toy Story, it captures that
00:43joy of kind of childlike play and wonderment in a different way. Yes, yes. What were your
00:48kind of memories of that one quickly? Like working with this incredible director and this
00:53like iconic coaster? Well, Robin Williams was like, he's so wild because he's like a totally
01:03normal person. He can sit sexy on the chair and he's like, how are you doing? Blah, blah, blah.
01:09And then he can just, it's like he has another arm or something where he can turn it on and
01:15it's just
01:17wild. Like I've never seen anything like it. I mean, it's one of the joys of being an actor is
01:26sometimes you meet people that are just extraordinarily talented and it's just like, wow.
01:35Well, as I said, it captured a lot of the magic of this franchise, but perhaps not in the same
01:41global dominating world changing, culture changing way that Toy Story did. I love this movie. Do you
01:48think it did? Well, yeah, this Toy Story, I think changed cinema completely. I remember going to see
01:53the first one in the cinema and all the ones afterwards. Not only did it change the technology,
01:58but it changed the kind of, I don't know what you thought could be made out of animation and the
02:04stories you could tell and the beats you could hit. But did you think there was more Toy Stories
02:08to tell after the last one? Because I felt, I was very sad at the end of four because I
02:13felt it was
02:13definitive. And then this has left me with almost a delusional optimism of it's so fresh. I knew you
02:18could keep doing these for years. Forever. Yes. So did you think you'd be back?
02:23I didn't know. You know, they're, they're such a special place and such an incubator of things.
02:32You just, you never know. Yeah.
02:36You've got a, uh, your kind of career really exploded from the morning show and past lives,
02:42which is incredible. But then doing something like this, I mean, Toy Stories, it sits on its own,
02:48really. Yes. It's like the Simpsons in a way. Can they sit on their own little plinth?
02:52I know when you're on a, when you're in a recording booth, it's not quite the same as being on
02:56set with
02:56everyone around you. But when you know you're recording lines to Jesse, to Woody, to Buzz,
03:02is there like a reverence you can't help but have like in the booth because you know who you're
03:06talking to? Do I have their photographs taped up around me? It's so different than like a normal
03:12animation. No, it is. I tried not to think about it because that would be debilitating. I think I
03:22mean, see, these actors are iconic to me and the characters certainly are. And I, I mean, I, I
03:29think if I approached each scene with this sort of like, and now I will be speaking to Joan Cusack,
03:36it wouldn't be so, so good. But I, I don't know. I, we're, we really are in such good hands
03:44and I
03:44just try to play the truth of it, which is funny when you think about, well, I'm an iPad, but
03:50I
03:51really wanted to hone in on the truth of, of, of what an iPad would sound like. And, you know,
03:59I don't know. Yeah. Didn't you have to do all the letters? The, yes.
04:04Yes. Hey, be in that voice. Yes. Well, you did it beautifully. Thank you. I wish I could
04:11speak to you all day. You're so good. But this is another, it's just every single time one of
04:15these come out, you're like, oh, let's, let's hope this one doesn't ruin it. Right. And it's so
04:19brilliant and everything. Oh, thank you. It like sends you back and I've got my own kids and it can,
04:23they can watch and it's just. Yeah. It's whole, it's whole. The next generation. Well,
04:28thanks very much. Isn't that wild? I know.
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