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