While showing on Toon’d In with Jim Cummings, Alan Tudyk revealed that he was lower from the I, Robot publicity tour after check screenings confirmed his character scored greater with audiences than the movie’s star, Will Smith.
“A lot of people did not know I did Sonny the Robot in ‘I, Robot,’ and there is a reason,” Tudyk stated. “They have been doing check audiences for the film they usually rating the characters in this sort of check screening. I received phrase again: ‘Alan, you are testing higher than Will Smith.’ And then I used to be gone. I used to be carried out. There was no publicity and my title was not talked about.“
The actor continued, “I used to be so shocked. I used to be like, ‘Wait, nobody is going to know I’m in it!’ I put rather a lot into [that performance]. I needed to transfer like a robotic. At the time I used to be very upset.“
Tudyk supplied Sonny’s voice and motion-capture efficiency within the movie. At the time, motion-capture efficiency was nonetheless a comparatively new phenomenon in Hollywood, however audiences had gotten a style of it because of Ahmed Best as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Andy Serkis as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tudyk would return to motion-capture years later as Ok-2SO in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and would reprise the function within the second season of Andor.
It’s been a very long time since I watched I, Robot, however I do recall Sonny being a spotlight; possibly these check audiences have been onto one thing. While Tudyk might have been absent from I, Robot’s publicity tour in 2004, he nonetheless managed to make his mark on audiences only a month earlier, stealing scenes as Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
Tudyk can now be heard lending his voice to a different robotic. He voices Robot #4 in James Gunn’s Superman film, one of many Man of Steel’s many robotic helpers on the Fortress of Solitude. The movie remains to be enjoying in theaters, so you’ll want to try the (very completely different) evaluations from our personal Chris Bumbray and Tyler Nichols, and don’t neglect to let us know what you thought of the film as properly!
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