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.
11:11I 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.