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WALLACE SHAWN
The Voice of Rex

(INT. - DISNEY DINING ROOM - DAY)

ANDRE:
This is amazing, Wally. You say you're the voice of a dinosaur?

WALLY:
It's not just a dinosaur. It's a dinosaur undergoing an existential crisis.

ANDRE:
Ah, sort of like when you played Ellen in "Nice Girls Don't Explode?"

WALLY:
Or Vanya in "Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street."

ANDRE:
Lightened with the comic touch you displayed in "The Princess Bride."

WALLY:
Or when I did myself, sort of, in "My Dinner with Andre."

ANDRE:
Only this time, you're green. And reptilian.

WALLY:
"Toy Story" is computer-animated. All I do is provide the voice. You should see it. It has its own quite extraordinary look to it, due to the way it's made, which I never would have been able to guess. Even as a layman, not knowing how it was done, I would have said it doesn't look like anything I've ever seen. And it's quite strange and remarkable.

ANDRE:
Wally, what do you think of animation as an art form?

WALLY:
As a child, I always wanted to be an animator.

ANDRE:
Ah, to make faces in the mirror all day long. The human condition reflected.

WALLY:
Yes, that was my dream as a child. Of course, I would never have imagined that when I was in my twenties, or my thirties, I never would have imagined that as a man in his fifties, I would really be in this building. It's turned out so strangely.


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"As a child, I always wanted to be an animator."
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"Those who are moved by the spectacle of a kindly dinosaur will respond ...."
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