Wallace Shank over Toy Story en meer

RDJ134 1 december 2014 om 18:45 uur

De naam Wallace Shank zal weinig mensen wat doen zeggen, maar deze kleine Amerikaanse acteur gaat als sinds eind jaren zestig van de vorige eeuw mee en is te zien geweest in heel wat films en TV series. Maar zijn stem als Rex in de Toy Story films is legendarisch en daarom had de website Collider dit interview met hem over zijn werk.


Collider: It's been almost 20 years now, since the first Toy Story movie came out and people were introduced to these characters, what's it meant to you to be a part of such a beloved franchise and to bring a character like Rex to life?

WALLACE SHAWN:
Well, it's much nicer, I'm sure, than being a part of a hated franchise. I'm sure that would be quite painful. What can I say? I'm very happy when they call me and say, "We're gonna do something else." I crawl out of my tragic cave and do something that's highly amusing for me to do. It's very nice to think that I'm providing some relief, soothing the suffering of some people out there who get a moment of pleasure from watching the film. It's great!

What do you most enjoy about voicing a character like Rex?

SHAWN:
The characters are in the imagination of the director, really. I am trying, in a way, to get inside that imagination, so that I fulfill their fantasy of what that character is going to be, at that moment. It's not exactly my fantasy. It's an animated film, so they don't say, "Rex can be absolutely anything that you want him to be." It doesn't quite work that way. They know what the picture is going to be, roughly speaking. Even though the voice is done before the picture, it has to fit their idea of what the picture is going to be. It's a little bit more of trying to collaborate with someone else's imagination than it is leaping into the unknown on your own.

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