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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Catherine Shoard

‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails

‘Being on a tablet is not playing with a toy. It’s playing with dopamine’ … Woody and Buzz confront Lilypad in Toy Story 5.
‘Being on a tablet is not playing with a toy. It’s playing with dopamine’ … Woody and Buzz confront Lilypad in Toy Story 5. Photograph: Pixar

What is the thing you’ve learned most from this new film? Secretmission
Tim Allen [the voice of Buzz Lightyear]: It sounds really self-gratifying, but it’s taking about 20% less time to make a better product. I know now how to focus and isolate my voice. I don’t do as many takes. Sometimes they’ll even say to me: “I think we got it. You can stop.”

Tom Hanks [Sheriff Woody]: Really? I will sometimes ask: “Please tell me you have it because I’m so done with this.” I find it to be exactly the same as it was at the get-go, except maybe there’s a little more importance put on it. I don’t think anybody picks our takes doing a Toy Story movie lightly. But I found everything else is just one damn thing after another.

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