Tim Allen has spent decades voicing Buzz Lightyear, which means he knows a thing or two about making a character sound right. But apparently, some of the stranger actorly warm-up rituals he picked up came from a very different project, one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. In a new interview, Allen hilariously recalls working with the late great Alan Rickman on Galaxy Quest and the voice warm-up lessons he learned from his fellow Quest cast members.
While Allen and Tom Hanks were discussing their voice prep for Woody and Buzz during a promotional appearance for the upcoming Toy Story 5, the Shifting Gears star brought up the odd vocal exercises he witnessed while making Galaxy Quest with Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell and Tony Shalhoub. In a hilarious clip from the EW interview showing the longtime Pixar duo promoting the upcoming sequel on the 2026 movie calendar, Allen breaks down his approach as:
