Does Alan Tudyk Know Lines From His Most Famous Movies & TV Shows?

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00:00Ah-ha!

00:01I wrote this line.

00:02I was coming into this very cocky,

00:04and now I'm faced with,

00:06do you take me for a basic bitch?

00:08♪♪

00:14Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

00:16Ah, this is nice.

00:18My taint remains unchanged, which is...

00:24It's a line from, uh,

00:27resident alien Harry VanderSpiegel.

00:29I wrote this line.

00:31I know.

00:34My taint remains unchanged.

00:36I have such pride that I wrote a line.

00:38My taint remains unchanged.

00:40My mom will be happy to know that my mind's in the gutter.

00:43Will there be a season four? I do not know.

00:45We work for SyFy, and they are not a typical network.

00:50I'm pretty sure they're a front for meth,

00:55crystal meth.

00:57And we're just, you know,

01:00we're just sort of the window dressing.

01:02So it depends on how meth sales are going.

01:05So, fingers crossed.

01:08Next.

01:11Here we go.

01:12There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in.

01:16So I can almost say it in the character voice

01:19because he has an accent.

01:21There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in.

01:24This is a robot.

01:26This is K2SO from Rogue One.

01:29There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in.

01:32Freeze! Right there!

01:33If you're a motion capture character

01:35like I was in Rogue One,

01:36one of the biggest challenges, getting your food.

01:39The guys at catering just see you as an extra.

01:42And so they have to know you

01:44and that you're a character in the movie.

01:48And so I'd say that's the biggest challenge,

01:51making connection with catering and letting them know,

01:54hey, I'm going to be here a lot.

01:55Don't treat me poorly.

01:57Don't spit.

01:59Not that they spit in the food of the extras.

02:00They spit in the food of the extras.

02:02But that's mainly it.

02:08Technically, I was never alive,

02:09but I appreciate your concern.

02:11Sounds again like a robot.

02:13I start saying it like the character.

02:14Technically, I was never alive,

02:16but I appreciate your concern.

02:17I'm going to guess this was Sonny from iRobot.

02:20Technically, I was never alive,

02:22but I appreciate your concern.

02:24I went to Juilliard, which at the time that I went,

02:28they were very cookie cutter in their approach to acting.

02:33Like everybody got the same stamp and the same education

02:37and you were taught to speak in a certain way

02:40and walk and talk in a certain way.

02:41And it was not far from robotic.

02:43It was a criticism at the time.

02:46Not now, but back then.

02:48And so it really works well to have that

02:53sort of in your back pocket.

02:55There we go.

02:57Ooh.

02:59Ooh.

03:00I was coming into this very cocky

03:02and now I'm faced with, do you take me for a basic bitch?

03:08I evidently said this and I remember it so weird.

03:11Well, weirdly well, do you take me for a basic bitch?

03:19Harry Van Der Spiegel from Resident Alien?

03:23I guess it's going to be Suburgatory.

03:26No, sounds like I'm in a Gimbley Capnick's writing.

03:29Oh, Harley Quinn.

03:31Okay, yes.

03:32Do you take me for a basic bitch?

03:34Oh yeah, that sounds like something Joker would say.

03:38You take me for a basic bitch.

03:40My approach was the Joker was created by acid bath.

03:45And if I eat spicy foods, then I get acid reflux

03:49and it aggravates my voice.

03:52So I started with a voice

03:55that had been completely washed in acid.

03:59And that was how it began.

04:01And then it sort of, because he's the Joker.

04:05It just kind of came from, went from there.

04:07I have a basic knowledge of,

04:09basic bitch knowledge of the Joker

04:11from mainly the live action movies.

04:14Heath Ledger, Jack Nicholson, and some comics.

04:19I never saw any of Mark Hamill's stuff

04:21except I knew he was the best.

04:22When I went in to do my first recording for the Joker,

04:25Tony Hale was there.

04:27He voices Brainiac.

04:29And I think he heard me doing Clayface

04:31and I came out of the booth and Tony goes,

04:33hey, oh, hey, by the way, who did we get to play the Joker?

04:36It has to be Mark Hamill.

04:38Nobody else will be good enough.

04:40I said, Tony, it's me.

04:42You can't, what do you say?

04:43He's like, oh, I'm sorry.

04:44Well, I did the Joker once and everybody said,

04:47unless it's Mark Hamill, it's not good enough.

04:51Boom.

04:52You hit a guy.

04:53Aha!

04:54I know this one.

04:55I can say this one in the character.

04:58And it's like this.

04:59You hit a guy with glasses.

05:02Well played.

05:04That's King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph.

05:07You hit a guy with glasses.

05:09That's, well played.

05:11This was the first time I worked for Disney.

05:12Someone was supposed to do the reading, another actor,

05:16and they fell out, something happened.

05:19And my agent said, hey, I got another actor over here

05:22named Alan Tudyk and he can do it.

05:24They said, can he do an Ed Wynn accent?

05:26Ed Wynn was a vaudevillian actor who did Mary Poppins

05:29and did Matt Hatter.

05:30And she said, Alan is so good at that accent.

05:34And they said, okay, we'll fly him up to Pixar

05:36in San Francisco with the whole cast, really.

05:39She called me and said, can you please tell me

05:41you can do this accent?

05:42Because she had just promised it before she knew.

05:45But I could.

05:46I loved Ed Wynn.

05:47And then I went up and did it.

05:49And then John Lasseter said,

05:51hey, it's really nice to meet you.

05:53And then I've been in every one since.

05:57Oh, you dirty rat.

06:00Why are you helping her?

06:01She's a cop.

06:02This is Duke Weaselton.

06:04Yes, Duke.

06:06He's in Zootopia, another one of the Disney movies.

06:12You dirty rat.

06:13Why are you helping her?

06:13She's a cop.

06:14Everybody loves animals.

06:15Who knows them?

06:16Maybe that's not true.

06:17Farmers eat them a lot.

06:19But it was a good story, you know?

06:22Okay.

06:23You, is there sorcery in you too?

06:27Are you a monster too?

06:29I'm guessing he sounded something like that.

06:31This was a character, Duke Weselton,

06:35not Weaseltown, for Frozen.

06:37Is there sorcery in you too?

06:39Are you a monster too?

06:41He was one that came up with a drawing

06:43that I showed up on the day and they're like,

06:44what do you got for this old dude?

06:46And so we started off like this

06:49and then it sort of became this person.

06:52Once he became so persnickety about it,

06:55Weselton, Weselton, then that kind of came out.

07:00Oh yeah.

07:01Okay.

07:06Mammoths, mammoths never travel alone.

07:09Mammoths never travel alone.

07:11So this is Ice Age.

07:12This would probably be the big saber tooth tiger.

07:15Mammoths never travel alone or some kind of,

07:18whatever my, the deepest I can make my voice in,

07:221999, 1998, mammoths never travel alone.

07:28Mammoths never travel alone.

07:30My first job in voiceover was for Ice Age

07:34and they just handed me a stack of photos this big

07:37or drawings that big.

07:38And I just went through and did a voice for everyone.

07:41There was like a voice and they had two lines

07:42and voice and two lines, voice and two lines.

07:44Then they called me and said, you got three roles.

07:47And I went back and did,

07:48and one was a, he was a saber tooth tiger who was big.

07:54I didn't like the voice, but they liked it.

07:56And then I was some, it was called a goofy dinosaur.

07:59Why do you think they called it Ice Age?

08:01Which I think that sounds like some old

08:03Warner Brothers cartoon that I just,

08:06was tucked in my head somewhere.

08:07And then there was another one.

08:09Oh, oh, I was the, prepare for the Ice Age.

08:14All the little dodo birds, the last melon.

08:16And they, you could just,

08:18the tongues were lolling around in their mouth.

08:20So that became just a little lateral lisp.

08:23So the drawing, if it has a tongue up there,

08:25I'm using that as a way of figuring out where they're,

08:29where their consonants are placed.

08:31Okay.

08:32Ah, we will rule over this land

08:38and we will call it this land.

08:42That is from Firefly, character of Wash.

08:46We will rule over all this land

08:49and we will call it this land.

08:53It was the first season and it was the first episode.

08:55It was the pilot episode.

08:56This was my audition.

08:57It's part of my audition piece.

08:58This show changed my life.

09:02It truly changed my life.

09:03This opened up the world of science fiction conventions.

09:07And I went to my first one,

09:09the year after we had finished,

09:11before we made the movie, in London.

09:14I went to one in London.

09:15And it was such an impactful thing for me.

09:18And it was back at a time when Comic-Cons weren't big,

09:20Comic-Cons weren't accepted.

09:22It was so impactful.

09:23I ended up making a show about cons.

09:26I made a little show for a streaming channel

09:29that lasted for a short amount of time called Con Man.

09:33It was all about cons.

09:34So it made a huge difference.

09:40Okay.

09:45Betray us and I will fong you until your insides are out.

09:52Your outsides are in

09:54and your entrails will become your extrails.

09:58That goofiness was me.

10:01The entrails, extrails.

10:04Lotsy.

10:06This is Watt from A Knight's Tale.

10:08Betray us and I will fong you until your insides are out.

10:13Your outsides are in.

10:14Your entrails will become your extrails.

10:16I've got a great picture of me kissing him.

10:21It was in the rehearsal and I had a camera

10:23and this was before selfies and stuff,

10:26but he was a really good photographer.

10:28When I kissed him, he just did this

10:29and he's looking right,

10:31he's just like looking right at the camera

10:32with a little smile on his face.

10:34And I'm going away ready to spit

10:37because that's what the scene was.

10:39And it's this great picture because he took it

10:42and it's just a beautiful moment.

10:45It was great.

10:46He was a good guy.

10:47All right.

10:48Okay, that one didn't do much.

10:50Okay, here we go.

10:55I was doing her in Amy's mom's room.

10:58I was doing her in Amy's mom's room.

11:05Oh, this doesn't sound like a Disney film.

11:11I don't know.

11:12I don't know.

11:13I don't know.

11:14I don't know.

11:15I don't know.

11:16I don't know.

11:17I don't know.

11:18Oh no.

11:19Was it 35 miles from normal?

11:25I was doing her in Amy's mom's room.

11:27Oh, let's not talk about that film.

11:32You know who wrote that film?

11:33Yeah, let's really understand.

11:33You know who wrote that film

11:34was the guy who got canceled

11:36over his extracurricular activities on One Tree Hill.

11:39I was always extra

11:44and I really liked mimicking things I saw on television

11:50and in cartoons probably as well.

11:53I was a class clown

11:55and my mother put me in the Plano Community Theater's

12:01production of Fabulous Fable Factory at the mall.

12:05We performed at the mall, two performances only.

12:08And then in my senior year, my teacher,

12:10I wasn't gonna continue to be an actor

12:11because I didn't want to be poor.

12:12And my teacher said,

12:14no, you'll make it.

12:16You convinced me to be an actor.

12:19Like one afternoon between her and my friend, Jimmy,

12:24who was a dancer.

12:26Remember we went out for coffee one morning before school,

12:29smoke cigarettes, drink coffee.

12:32And he said, I'm not gonna be a psychologist.

12:35I'm gonna be a dancer.

12:37And then it was like right there with my teacher telling me

12:39you can do it.

12:40And that was it.

12:41I never looked back.

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