Alan Tudyk recently appeared in the “Toon'd in Jim Cummings” podcast and claimed that he was discontinued from the 2004 marketing “I, Robot” after he was discovered in test demonstrations that he was actually tested higher with the audience as a leading man Will Smith. Tudyk performed in the film as a robot Sonny via Motion Capture and Voice spectacle. When he discharged him from the film's public relations work, there were people who have no idea that he played the leading role in the film, said the actor.
“Many people didn't know that I did Sonny the robot in 'I, robot', and there is a reason,” said Tudyk. “You made the test audience for the film and achieved the characters in this type of test screening. I got Word back:” Alan, you test higher than Will Smith. “And then I was gone.
“I was so shocked,” he continued. “I said, 'Wait, nobody will know that I'm there!' I put a lot in [that performance]. I had to move like a robot. At that time I was very upset. “
diversity has contacted Smith's representative for a comment.
“I, Robot”, which was staged by Alex Proyas, plays Smith as Detective by Chicago Police in 2035, who examines the alleged suicide of the founder of a robotics company. The company's highly intelligent robots are used for jobs in the public service, but Smith's detective is convinced that one of these robots, Tudyks Sonny, murdered the founder. Bridget Moyahhan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell and Chi McBride includes the side line -up.
Outside of Jar Jar Binks in the “Star Wars” prequels and Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” films, Motion Capture technology and performances in Hollywood were still relatively new when Tudyk played in “I, Robot” Sonny. He would use the technology again years later when he played the Droid K-2SO in the “Star Wars” film “Rogue One”, a role that he repeated in the Disney+ Prequel series “Andor”.
See Tudyk's full interview in the podcast “TooN'D in with with with with with with rights Jim cummings” in the video below.