The animator opens up about going to infinity and beyond (again) with Chris Evans' space ranger.
Sun’s out, fun’s out!
Angus MacLane has a long history with Buzz Lightyear.
Izzy Hawthorne (Keke Palmer), Sox (Peter Sohn), and Buzz Lightyear (Chris Evans) in ‘Lightyear’.Disney/Pixar
“I’ve been tethered to this character for so long,” MacLane, 47, says.
“It just keeps coming back to me.”
The Buzz ofLightyearisn’t the lovable plastic hero of theToy Storyseries, voiced byTim Allen.
The result is an ambitious adventure that has Pixar shooting for the stars.
So we knew we needed to come up with some way to dimensionalize that character.
That kind of daring, unflappable superhero character would be easy to dismiss."
Buzz, in his two-dimensional form, can be like, ‘I’m not worried about anything!
I eat danger for breakfast!’
but that didn’t do a lot to help us in that arena."
Fortunately for Buzz, he’s not facing that danger alone.
I wanted him to have a partner where you would know they didn’t have a romantic relationship.
So, in additional to being wonderful representation, Alisha’s queerness was useful, narratively."
“We worked really hard to get it right.”
“I just wanted to make something that was fun,” he says.
