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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