Tony Hale admits he didn’t know he actually made it in the final cut of Toy Story 4 until the film’s trailer was released.
The actor, who voices Forky in the 2019 animated pic, recently told People magazine that he worried he might have been replaced by a “huge star” in the movie, despite reading for the role.
“It wasn’t until I heard my voice on the Toy Story 4 trailer that I actually thought I was still in it. It wasn’t until then,” Hale said. “The whole time I was like, ‘They’re going to cut me. They’re going to replace me with some huge star.'”
The Veep star actually had a notable role in the Oscar-winning movie, as Toy Story 4 follows his new toy, a talking spork called Forky, who joins Woody (Tom Hanks) and the gang on a road trip alongside old and new friends, as they learn how big the world can be for a toy.
“When you were playing in a world of Forky from Toy Story, it means just the power of simplicity. That’s why children’s books are so popular. I mean, sometimes adults gravitate to children’s books because of the simplicity,” Hale said of the character. “What I loved is [Forky] was the first toy that was made by a kid. So talk about simplicity. I mean, it was like a spork and some pipe cleaner arms, some popsicle feet.”
