Tom Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker who performed the voice of Woody in the Toy Story franchise.
In an interview for Toy Story, Hanks said that when they asked him to do Woody, they used a scene from Turner & Hooch, which was Woody telling a dog not to eat the car in order to show him what good story and performance animation could do because he had never done animation work before and he stated that if the animated scene didn't make sense he probably wouldn't have done the film.
Filmography[]
- Toy Story (1995): Woody
- Toy Story 2 (1999): Woody
- Cars (2006): Woody
- Toy Story 3 (2010): Woody
- Hawaiian Vacation (2011): Woody
- Small Fry (2011): Woody
- Partysaurus Rex (2012): Woody
- Toy Story OF TERROR! (2013): Woody
- Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014): Woody
- Toy Story 4 (2019): Woody
Trivia[]
- What attracted Hanks to the role of Woody was during his childhood, he would always wonder if his toys were alive and moved around when nobody was in his room.
- When Jessie first meets Woody, she exclaims, "Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!". Abraham Lincoln's mother was Nancy Hanks, a blood relative of Tom Hanks, who is a direct descendant of an uncle of Nancy Hanks.
- Hanks is a model railroader.
- In Toy Story 2, Slinky says, "I may not be a smart dog, but I know what roadkill is," which is a line from Forrest Gump, when Forrest tells his girlfriend, Jenny, "I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is."
- Hanks previously starred in the 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War alongside Ned Beatty, before they collaborated again in Toy Story 3.
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Hanks in 1999
