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Tim Allen received an unexpected note when he came back to record Buzz for Toy Story 5.
“I didn’t know how to take that,” he says of being told, “Buzz sounds a little old.”
“I had to learn the process of warming up,” Allen says of getting paired with a voice coach.
It’s been more than 30 years since Tim Allen first recorded the role of Buzz Lightyear in Pixar‘s Toy Story, and there was one moment returning for the fifth movie where he felt it.
In an interview with costar Tom Hanks for Entertainment Weekly‘s mini Toy Story reunion, Allen shared the unexpected note he received when he got back into the recording booth for Toy Story 5.
“Early on when we did this first radio plug for this one, T5, in a nice way some of the engineers were going, ‘Buzz sounds a little old,’ and I didn’t know how to take that,” Allen says. “So I got together with a voice coach from New York City Opera [that] they put me with. She said, ‘You’re not old. Don’t get that in your head. You do have to warm up at your age. You can’t just get right into [it].'”
Tim Allen at the ‘Toy Story 5’ premiere in Los Angeles
Credit: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Allen was 42 when Toy Story opened in theaters as the first entirely computer-generated animated film. He’s now 73 as the fifth movie is about to open on Friday.
The actor, known for Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, notes the “very specific modulation” of playing Buzz. “It doesn’t seem very different than the one I’m speaking in, and there were some vocal exercises,” he says.
“I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I’m 900 years old now,” he adds. “And with some vocal exercises that opera singers do, Broadway people — that’s a lot of exercise, so I had to learn the process of warming up.”
“I have to get out of my neck and come from the diaphragm,” Hanks says, “’cause that’s [shouts] all Woody does!”
Toy Story 5, directed by Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton (WALL-E, Finding Nemo), is a film about the arrival of tech into the household and that fragile age when kids realize it’s no longer considered cool to play with toys.
Bonnie (Scarlett Spears) is now 8 years old and the only kid on her block still playing with toys. Everyone else has a smart device known as a Lilypad. When Bonnie’s parents get one for her (voiced by Greta Lee), Jessie (Joan Cusack) and the gang must figure out how to get rid of her before they become obsolete.
Watch EW’s full interview with Allen and Hanks in the video above.
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