Toy Story 4 sees the return of Woody, Buzz, Bo Peep and other beloved characters from Andy’s toy box. Be that as it may, the up and coming movie additionally includes some new faces (and voices).
There is Forky, played by Tony Hale, a hopelessly neurotic spork that was made into a toy by Bonnie. At that point there is Duke Caboom, a gung-ho Canadian daredevil voiced by Keanu Reeves.
So as to discover their Caboom, director Josh Cooley and makers Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen completed a blind audio test. The casting department played audio recordings of line readings from actors, all Canadian, for the movie producers, who didn’t realize which voice had a place with which actors.
“With the first one we said, ‘Wait, stop! Who is that?’ And it was Keanu,” Cooley reviewed Tuesday at the movie’s Hollywood debut at the El Capitan theater.
Wanting to learn more about the character before he began recording, Reeves went to Pixar’s Emeryville, California. campus for a meeting. Said Nielsen, “He was like, ‘What is this guy about? What is he afraid of?’ He really wanted to dig deep into this character.”
It was during lunch, said the maker, that Reeves came up with the idea for Caboom’s mark signature compulsion for posing. “He climbed on a table and was striking poses in the middle of the atrium and we thought, that is Duke Caboom!”
Reeves has just had a busy year. He is in theaters with the most recent installment in Lionsgate’s John Wick series and can likewise be seen in Randall Park and Ali Wong’s Netflix romantic comedy Always Be My Maybe, wherein he plays an elevated version of himself.
“I sat with him during a preview and I had just seen John Wick 3. I was thinking that I don’t want to upset or he will stab me with a fork or something,” said Tim Allen, who voices Buzz Lightyear. Allen compared Reeves’ performance as Duke Caboom to Michael Keaton’s as Ken the doll in Toy Story 3, adding, “Keanu jumps it up a notch.”
Toy Story 4 is expected out in theaters June 21.