00:00These are his words, you know, and they'll never not be his words.
00:03So you have to at once acknowledge that, but still, you can't just do a shameless Tim Allen impression.
00:09You have to find a way to add your own interpretation.
00:13To infinity.
00:15And...
00:20Obviously, to infinity and beyond is the most iconic line,
00:25and that's one of the most intimidating ones, just because Tim did such an amazing job with it.
00:30And I really like what Pixar did in terms of understanding why that's the catchphrase,
00:36that it was with him and Alicia, and that was kind of their thing together.
00:40I just thought that was such a clever spin on it.
00:42But again, you're trying to find a way to make it your own,
00:47while also honoring the amazing work that Tim did.
00:51What Tim did is why we love this character.
00:54Buzz Lightyear to Star Command.
00:55Come in, Star Command.
00:57Why don't they answer?
00:59Oh, man, it was a dream come true.
01:01When I heard about the idea, I immediately was like,
01:04oh my gosh, I really would love to be a part of this.
01:06And so when I got the opportunity and I got the role, I was just thrilled.
01:10I mean, this is an iconic legacy character.
01:14It's a film, Toy Story is a film that I've always known growing up.
01:17I don't remember really a time without it.
01:19So to be able to be a part of that story is awesome.
01:22Yep, me too.
01:23I was honored to be asked.
01:24And it didn't take much to convince me except just hearing the word Lightyear
01:29and knowing that Chris was going to do it.
01:31Yeah, and they were wonderful.
01:33Again, I went in, I knew nothing.
01:35I was reading scenes and then halfway through trying to figure out still what was going on,
01:41what the scene was following.
01:45But despite that, it all works.
01:47And it's a great film.
01:48Well, I was real excited.
01:50I was amazed.
01:54The most difficult thing was, you know, getting information.
01:58Yes.
02:00And the characters, they're very secretive.
02:02I said, but you've got to tell us.
02:05Anyway, that was great.
02:08It was also great that it didn't have any, you know, anxiety attached to it.
02:13It was like, you know, we'd like you to do this.
02:17And I said, I'd like to do this.
02:18And then, you know, Bob's your uncle.
02:20That was that.
02:21I do this and they shave a little time off my sentence.
02:24Okay.
02:25And what about you?
02:26Well, I thought this was going to be like a fun boot camp workout thing.
02:30But it is not.
02:32Just talking about it now, I was there for Toy Story on the ground floor as a kid.
02:37And if this was double featured with that back then, I would have just been on the floor.
02:42Oh, yeah.
02:42Oh, yeah, absolutely.
02:43I mean, that was the goal, was to make a movie that would put kids on the floor, as it
02:50were.
02:51That was really our goal.
02:52You know, they need to be floored by this.
02:54Because that's the way I was for so many movies as a kid.
02:57And films had a tremendous impact on me.
02:59And it changed the course of my life.
03:00And I wanted to do a film like that that could do the same thing for a small kid today.
03:05Well, it's a weird thing.
03:06Because actually, Angus said something this morning which made me go, wow, I hadn't thought about it that way.
03:10And he's like, yeah, but we're now actually in the Toy Story universe.
03:14Because we are the filmmakers who made the movie that Andy saw as a kid.
03:20And I'm like, oh, that's so weird.
03:22That means that I was living in that universe scoring movies.
03:27And he was, it's just, the more you think about it, the crazier it is.
03:31But it's really cool.
03:32It's really fun.
03:33So, yeah.
03:34And in that, the movie that Andy was watching was one of his favorite movies.
03:39You know, we treated this as the movies that we loved when we were kids growing up.
03:42This was, we were going to make the movie that we would have always loved to have seen, you know,
03:48right alongside of Star Wars, Back to the Future, Gremlins, whatever it is.
03:52All of those movies, this could have been just thrown in right alongside of them in somewhere in the 1980s.
03:58And we would have been perfectly happy with that because we love it.
04:01Everything we do is sort of born out of all of the things we watched growing up and all the
04:05things we loved.
04:07And this movie is just a giant love letter to all of that.
04:11To Infinity.
04:12Are you trying to get me to pull your finger?
04:14Don't fall for it.
04:14No, not like that.
04:16Sorry, it's a thing your grandma and I used to do.
04:18Yeah.
04:20Maurice, Izzy, and Darby are this ragtag group of junior rangers who are just, they come to Buzz's rescue in
04:25his hour of need, and they're all such a delight.
04:28What is the most heroic trait that you see in your character for Lightyear?
04:32In my case, I'd say she's willing to put herself in danger to try and protect the others.
04:40Hmm.
04:41You there, grab it!
04:42It's the violation of my parole!
04:44My guy, Mo Morrison, his most heroic trait is perseverance.
04:52He will try and try and try to find a use for his pen or for any other thing, and
04:59he'll try until there is a use.
05:01And don't die.
05:03Don't die.
05:04It's just something you want to do every day.
05:06It's still an objective.
05:06If I may.
05:07I think Izzy's most heroic trait is that she knows how to get her team engaged and empowered.
05:15She knows how to, you know, get everybody involved, and I think a team is always the best way to
05:21finish any goal.
05:22The probability of survival with an inexperienced crew is 38.2%.
05:27Hmm, seems a bit low.
05:28We have to talk about socks because everybody is just over the moon for Peter Stone's character.
05:36How did socks come into play, and why does Andy not have one?
05:41Well, we have an answer for this that we've recently discovered.
05:45Andy's mom, it was a very expensive toy.
05:48It was, like, the, like, because it was a talking toy at that time, in, like, 1986, 87, it maybe
05:56had, like, a little cassette deck in the back.
05:58Like, it was a little bit out of the price range for that family.
06:03And so, there were plenty of toys, and I was talking about, we were just talking about this Michael Cicchino,
06:07how he and I both wanted an AT-AT from Star Wars, from Empire Strikes Back.
06:11We never got it.
06:12It was the one we didn't have.
06:13So, Andy doesn't have all the toys.
06:15He has some of the toys.
06:16That's the way it was when I was a kid.
06:18I had some of the figures, and then, oddly, my dad and I made all the vehicles for things.
06:23That's the way that I grew up.
06:25And so, that's the idea behind it.
06:28He didn't have the socks.
06:29But socks was always a sidekick for Buzz.
06:32Buzz is a side character in Toy Story.
06:35So, if you're going to make Buzz a main character, he needs a sidekick.
06:38And that sidekick can't be sarcastic.
06:41It has to be loyal.
06:42And I wanted to find something that was naturally funny from an animation perspective.
06:46And animatronic robot cat seemed like the right way to go.
06:49It's figures like this that are kind of hard to nail, especially on a comedic level.
06:54Because you could very much just have him keep saying, I just want you five minutes.
06:58And that's the gag.
06:59Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:59But there's just such a life to him.
07:01Yeah.
07:02Well, I think because of the voice actor, I think that, well, it's the animation.
07:08Tim Pickson was our, he's a directing animator.
07:10He did a lot of the hard work.
07:12And Michael Comet, who did the, who built the character.
07:15But it was Peter Soane who is genuinely, like, that kind of appealing, nice guy.
07:22Like, everyone feels, the way they feel about socks is how everyone that knows Pete feels about Pete.
07:26And so having Peter as the voice takes it a long way.
07:31It was hard to find someone that was more warm in the right way without feeling sarcastic or cynical.
07:37And Peter has the ability to be hilarious and be totally true.
07:40And that truth, since comedy is two truths that come together to form a new truth, Pete has that in
07:46spades.
07:51So you did go in a little cold, not knowing many specifics about the role of Zerg.
07:56I did not.
07:58But as you moved forward, what helped influence your performance?
08:02Because I don't think many people realize this.
08:04You're the second Brolin to play a Disney villain besides your son Josh in the Avengers films.
08:09Yeah, it's been the talk of the town for the last two days here, but I don't know that anybody
08:17outside of it,
08:18but it sounds like it's going to be part of the latest news that we're going to finally have it
08:24out, you know.
08:25I got to start going to Gold's gym and catch up with him because this is going to be one
08:29nasty fight.
08:31He's already killed half the universe, man.
08:34I got to catch up.
08:35That's what sequels are for.
08:37I mean, I hope so, for very selfish reasons.
08:42There's a lot of room.
08:43There's a lot of places to go and a lot of great characters in this.
08:46And so, yeah, I hope we have a chance to explore them further.
08:50This is exciting.
08:50A new adventure.
08:52Lightyear is the film that Andy watches and it inspires the toys.
08:56That's right.
08:56So while you're Lightyear's Buzz Lightyear, Tim Allen is obviously the toy.
09:00Right.
09:01Do you have any Captain America merchandise that has another voice to it?
09:05And how weird is it?
09:07All of the Captain America merchandise has another voice.
09:10I've never done any voice for any of the toys.
09:14I don't even know if they can use my voice from the films in those toys.
09:18You know, a funny story, actually.
09:19There was some toy that they put out that they wanted me to do the voice for.
09:25But I ended up having my brother do it.
09:28My younger brother, who sounds similar to me, is the voice of one of the main original toys of Captain
09:35America.
09:35But again, that was one of the reasons why I was able to at least wrap my head around this
09:40project when they explained what it was going to be to understand why maybe it wouldn't be Tim Allen's voice.
09:46Okay, you just sent us further down the rabbit hole with that because you pulled a Tom Hanks because his
09:52brother Jim tends to step in for him on some of the Toy Story films.
09:56Does he?
09:56Does he sound like Tom?
09:57I mean, that's an iconic voice.
09:59I mean, does he sound like Tom Hanks?
10:01It's close.
10:03It's not a one for one, but it's close enough that it's never really been distracting.
10:06Yeah.
10:06Yeah.
10:07Wow.
10:08Just the official Disney policy, I guess.
10:10Or if not, it should be the other one.
10:11Fire the sibling.
10:12Yeah.
10:12Ready, Captain Lightyear?
10:13Ready as I'll ever be, Commander Hawthorne.
10:15So going back to Hawthorne, in the lead up to the film's release, Lightyear almost removed an LGBTQ plus moment
10:23from the film, but then it was reinstated as it was announced.
10:27What did the cut look like?
10:29What did the altered version look like without that sequence?
10:32Yeah.
10:32The montage was in there.
10:34The whole montage was in there.
10:35The only thing that changed was the 40th anniversary party instead of kiss.
10:42It kind of held hands awkwardly.
10:44No, she put her head on her shoulder.
10:46No, it was just a grab.
10:48It was like a grab and like a...
10:49No, she tilted.
10:51I don't know if it was on the shoulder.
10:52Okay.
10:52We're going to sit here and argue about this.
10:54Anyway, you get the idea.
10:55It was a little weird.
10:55And so it just felt a little bit like...
10:59What is that?
10:59It just felt like there was something missing.
11:01It's 40th anniversary.
11:01You're going to kiss your spouse.
11:02So it was more natural that way.
11:03And we just wanted to get that in the film.
11:05But everything else was the same.
11:07But Sox, how long were we gone?
11:09Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.
11:1062 years, seven months, and five days.
11:14What?
11:14I thought of Sox's point of view of the montage of him just like waiting around, like killing
11:20time, trying to like poking at the computer.
11:23But we haven't...
11:24Oh, look at that face.
11:25I know.
11:25I'd love to.
11:26But have we...
11:27We just finished this one.
11:29Come on.
11:29We just...
11:30Look what we gave you on Tuesday.
11:31Come on.
11:32I demand a lot.
11:33Okay.
11:33You said to me and beyond.
11:35And that means beyond.
11:36Yeah.
11:37Well, we'll take it under advisement.
11:38I'm glad to hear that something extra would be exciting to you.
11:42He's purring.
11:43He likes it.
11:43Sox, do you like that?
11:45I do.
11:45Huh.
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