The When Harry Met Sally actor, 76, who stars in the new Apple TV+ series Before, later voiced Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc, another Pixar and Disney animation. He told The Graham Norton Show: “I was the dope that turned it down, but it wasn’t about the character, it was a business thing, and my agent said not to do it, so I passed. “Then it comes out and it is genius.
” He continued: “Two years later when the producers of Toy Story first mentioned Monsters, Inc, I said ‘whatever it is, say yes.’ “They convinced me by showing me a screen test they had done of me as Buzz Lightyear in the scene from When Harry Met Sally where I am yelling about a wagon wheel coffee table. “They even had a little Buzz under the table.
It was astonishing and if I had seen that I would definitely have done Toy Story.” Also on the show is Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville and Match Point star Emily Mortimer, who discuss the film Paddington In Peru and the Peruvian bear’s British passport. After the film-makers asked for a passport, which would be used as a prop in the sequel, they were issued with a real one by the Home Office.
Bonneville said: “The producers wrote to the Home Office to ask if it was okay for them to use a facsimile of a passport in the film and they very sweetly issued a real one. In the passport under ‘any distinguishing features’ it says ‘Bear’.” Speaking about the exotic filming locations, he said: “Put it this way, seven weeks were filmed.