Alan Tudyk was not part of the advertising “I, robot” for a very surprising reason

Alan Tudyk has had a good career to play roles from another world. Sometimes it’s a robot, as in Snape One Or Superman. Other times, he is an extraterrestrial, as on Alien resident, where he lends his voice to all kinds of strange and eccentric creatures of Moana And Charm has Large hero 6 And Ralph wreck. Long before all that, however, Tudyk played Sonny, the main robot in the Will Smith 2004 Me, robot– But there is a good chance that you will not know it.

This is because it was not well publicized. Speaking on the podcast “Toon’d in With Jim Cummings”, Tudyk explained that after a test projection for the film, the public gave his character, Sonny, a higher partition than the character of Will Smith, del. “Many people didn’t know I was doing the robot to the robot Me, robot, And there is a reason, “said Tudyk.” They made an audience of testing for the film, and they mark the characters of this type of test projection. I brought back Word: “Alan, you test higher than Will Smith. And then I left. I had finished. There was no advertising and my name was not mentioned. »»

“I was so shocked,” said Tudyk. “I said to myself:” Wait, nobody will know that I am in it! ” I put a lot in (my performance). And who can blame it? It is essentially the second track of this film and working in a medium, the capture of performance, which was still in its infancy. It’s only a few years after Jar Jar Binks The ghost threat and Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. Tudyk would later become more synonymous with technology thanks to some of his subsequent roles, but he is a big one for which he did not obtain the credit he deserved.

Smith did not go out to discuss Tudyk’s revelations and probably won’t. But there are a lot of preceding huge stars who do not like to share the spotlights, so you have the sense that this happened here. You can look at the clip from around 17:22 below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0eld0etha

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