User blog:Dogman15/New information about Lee Unkrich's family life, and Andy's dad.

Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I saw an issue of Bay Area Parent on the shelf a few days ago, and Lee Unkrich was on the cover. The tagline was "Pixar Pop: All the BUZZ on the Toy Story 3 Director". Inside the issue is an article/interview by Janine DeFao. There are a few things in the article that I think would affect some of the information on the Internet about the Toy Story series. Not just on Pixar Wiki, but IMDb, too. Allow me to quote a bit: "In honor of Father's Day, and the movie's release two days earlier on June 18, Toy Story 3 Director Lee Unkrich spoke with Bay Area Parent. Unkrich, 42, got his start at Pixar as a film editor on Toy Story and co-directed Toy Story 2. He also co-directed Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo, which won] the 2003 Academy Award for best animated feature film. [paragraph] Unkrich lives in Marin County with his wife, Laura, and children, Max, 5, Alice, 10, and Hannah, 13, who is the voice of toy owner Andy's little sister, Molly, in Toy Story 2 and the current film."

What the author means by this is they used Hannah's voice in the archives to do Molly's voice in the flashbacks in 3. Beatrice Miller still does Molly's voice in the rest of the film, as a pre-teenager. What really is important here is Hannah Unkrich's age. If she is 13 years old as of June 2010 like the article says (and Janine spoke directly with Lee), then there is no way that Hannah could have done Molly's voice in the first Toy Story. Toy Story 1 was 15 years ago. This can only mean that Hannah only voiced Molly in 2, and that some other Pixar child did Molly's voice in 1. I'm going on a mission, both here and at IMDb, to correct this information. If only we knew who did her voice in the first film...

While I have your attention, allow me to quote another part of the interview, this time verbatim what Lee said: "My kids provided a lot of things in Toy Story 3 A section of the film takes place in a day care center. We put out a call to all Pixar employees for their kids' drawings. We scanned all that artwork and used it as the basis to create the artwork hanging on the walls of the day care center. [paragraph] I also needed kids' handwriting and had my kids provide all the writing for the movie. [paragraph] We had to create a lot of new toys for this movie. It helps to have three kids in the house and dig through their big bins. There's a new character called Big Baby, and my middle daughter, Alice, had a baby doll that definitely influenced that character."

And on Andy's dad: Janine DeFao (interviewer): You're a dad, but in the Toy Story movies, Andy's dad is conspicuously absent. Where is he? Lee Unkrich: Andy doesn't have a dad. We've never specifically said where he is. All of us have different ideas. Because we all have narratives in our mind, we've never said anything official and left that vauge. DeFao: As a father yourself, does that bother you? Unkrich: No. I was a child of divorce. My dad's not gone, but was gone from my life in a big way from age 10 on. Everyone has their own experience. I don't think you can rate one being better than any other.

So, there you have it. I don't think I need to sign my name, but I will anyway. Dogman15 21:56, June 9, 2010 (UTC)