paired Crystal with John Goodman, who voices Mike's fearful-looking, but good-hearted best friend, Sulley. "I said, 'All right listen: Whatever it is, yes!'" and John Lasseter's on the phone," he recalls of how that opportunity came his way. Six years after Toy Story, the actor eagerly accepted the role of one-eyed green monster Mike Wazowski in Pete Docter's Monsters Inc., which was released 20 years ago, on Nov. Suffice to say, the next time that Pixar came knocking, Crystal made sure to answer. (Photo: Walt Disney/Courtesy Everett Collection) I went, 'You know what? I was wrong.'"Ĭrystal eventually voiced Mike Wazowski in 2001's Monsters Inc. And then when he goes, 'I was being nice,' the visor from his helmet closed. "So it's Buzz Lightyear doing those lines, and then at the 'stupid wagon-wheel coffee table' it cut wide and little Buzz is standing under a big stupid wagon wheel coffee table. 'Someday you'll go 15 rounds over who is going to get this stupid wagon-wheel coffee table,'" he remembers. "They took dialogue from a scene in When Harry Met Sally when I get mad at all of them.
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He has this resonant, big voice of this character who's full of himself."Ĭrystal eventually got a chance to see what his version of Buzz might have looked like when Lasseter showed him the "screen test" that Pixar made while courting him for the part. "I didn't think I was the right voice for that. "At the time, it wasn't because of any work - it was something else," he explains now. Still, a quarter century later he can't help but ponder what might have been. Of course, Crystal's career didn't exactly suffer after turning down Toy Story. That opened a door that Home Improvement star Tim Allen all too happily walked through - a door that led to an industry-transforming blockbuster, multiple hit sequels and an upcoming "sidequel" starring Chris Evans. The actor didn't agree, though, and passed on the opportunity. Toy Story director John Lasseter believed that Crystal was that voice. After securing Tom Hanks as earnest cowboy Woody, they turned their attention to finding the right voice for his enemy-turned-friend, Buzz Lightyear. Here's the deep dish direct from Pizza Planet: Back in the early '90s, the then-upstart computer-animation company known as Pixar was trying to recruit A-list stars to join the vocal cast of their inaugural cartoon feature. But in his own mind he'll also be remembered for one other less-than-boastworthy thing: "I'm the schmuck who turned down Toy Story," Crystal confesses to Yahoo Entertainment about his biggest career regret. Billy Crystal can boast to a number of achievements over the course of his storied Hollywood career: He's the star of hit '90s comedy City Slickers one of the best Oscar hosts ever and the director of a Hall of Fame-worthy baseball movie.
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