Alan Tudyk Wasn’t A part of ‘I, Robotic’ Publicity for a Very Shocking Purpose

Alan Tudyk has made a fantastic profession of taking part in otherworldly roles. Typically he’s a robotic, like in Rogue One or Superman. Different instances he’s an alien, like on Resident Alien, or he lends his voice to all method of weird, wacky creatures from Moana and Encanto to Massive Hero 6 and Wreck-It Ralph. Lengthy earlier than any of that, although, Tudyk performed Sonny, the lead robotic within the 2004 Will Smith hit I, Robot—however there’s a very good likelihood you didn’t know that.

That’s as a result of it wasn’t properly publicized. Talking on the “Toon’d In with Jim Cummings” podcast, Tudyk defined that after a take a look at screening for the movie, the audiences gave his character, Sonny, the next rating than Will Smith’s character, Del. As soon as that occurred, he mysteriously discovered himself not a part of the movie’s huge press tour. “Lots of people didn’t know I did Sonny the Robotic in I, Robotic, and there’s a cause,” Tudyk stated. “They had been doing take a look at audiences for the film, and so they rating the characters in this type of take a look at screening. I obtained phrase again: ‘Alan, you might be testing larger than Will Smith.’ After which I used to be gone. I used to be performed. There was no publicity, and my title was not talked about.”

“I used to be so shocked,” Tudyk continued. “I used to be like, ‘Wait, no person goes to know I’m in it!’ I put loads into [my performance]. I needed to transfer like a robotic. On the time, I used to be very upset.” And who can blame him? He’s principally the second lead in that film and dealing in a medium, efficiency seize, that was nonetheless in its early phases. That is just some years after Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace and Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. Tudyk would later develop into extra synonymous with the expertise thanks to some of his later roles, however this can be a large one for which he didn’t get the credit score he deserved.

Smith hasn’t come out to debate Tudyk’s revelations and certain gained’t. However there may be loads of precedent of giant stars not liking to share the highlight, so that you get the sense that occurred right here. You’ll be able to watch the clip beginning at about 17:22 under.

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