Tim Allen says the Buzz Lightyear and Jessie kiss at the end of “Toy Story 5” made him feel uncomfortable, calling the moment “creepy,” partly because he voices Buzz as an inner child and because he imagines being watched by his daughters.
Tim Allen knew something was off the moment the “Toy Story 5” scene landed on his radar.
In the final moments of the film, Buzz Lightyear confesses his feelings to Jessie, and she surprises him with a kiss. Allen, 73, told Us Weekly that the moment felt “creepy.”
The discomfort wasn’t abstract for him. “When I’m doing [“Toy Story”], I’m literally an 8-year-old kid,” he explained. “That’s what the personality I feel is inside Buzz, is my 11-year-old. So it’s like, ‘Oh God, oh no, I’m doing that?!’”
He added that the kiss made him uneasy because he mentally steps back into the same childlike space he believes he’s bringing to the character while voicing Buzz. And the thought of it being watched—especially by his daughters—sharpened that reaction.
Allen is a dad to Katherine. 36. whom he shares with his ex-wife. Laura Deibel. and to 17-year-old Elizabeth. whom he shares with wife Jane Hajduk. He described what happens in his house when romance shows up on screen: “Every time there’s a kissing scene. everybody gets really quiet in the room. ” he said. “Especially when [Elizabeth was] a little younger. And that is exactly how I responded [to Buzz kissing Jessie].”.
When he first read the scene, he didn’t hide his doubt. “I remember when I first read it, I said, ‘Are you going to show this?’” he continued. “It’s like Woody’s bald spot. You kind of move them out of the animated thing, and it gets into some larger dramatic questions. Can they get married?. And let’s move on from there.”.
Allen later came around to the moment, though not because it stopped making him squirm. He said the kiss landed in a way that pulled different kinds of reactions into the same room. “I loved [it] because it affects everybody in the room,” he said. “You know, adults, and then kids go, ‘Eew!’ You got that potpourri of responses.”.
In “Toy Story 5,” Buzz and Jessie’s relationship doesn’t stall at that kiss. The two characters tie the knot after their long-running romance, when their owner Bonnie holds a pretend wedding for them.
The “Home Improvement” star also used the conversation to reflect on his own relationship with fatherhood. Earlier this month. he told Us Weekly he “never really wanted” to be a father. joking that he’d never been a “real fan of children.” He said that. in his view. adulthood is full of steps that lead to practical milestones—“you go through all this [stuff] to get a driver’s license or a passport”—but “there’s nothing about [raising] children.”.
He said fatherhood became a “work in progress.” And he tied some of that shift to getting sober in 1997 after his DUI arrest, describing how that changed his experience raising Katherine compared to raising Elizabeth.
“I made amends to [Katherine]. With the younger one, I see how much different it is when I’ve been sober almost 30 years,” he said. “She never knew any of that guy. I’ve thought about it many times, and I’ve talked to Kate, and she doesn’t hold it against me.”
Allen has been voicing Buzz Lightyear since the first “Toy Story” came out in 1995 alongside Tom Hanks, who plays Woody.
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Why is anyone even surprised by a cartoon kiss. It’s not like it’s real life, Tim.
I get what he means but also… Buzz and Jessie are adults in toy world or whatever. Still creepy to think of his daughters watching tho, like families be weird about that stuff.
Wait so he’s saying because he voices Buzz as like an inner kid it makes it creepy? That seems like a stretch. Also if he imagines being watched by his daughters, doesn’t that mean the movie already made him uncomfortable in general?
This whole article got cut off but I’m still gonna say it: maybe Toy Story 5 is going downhill if they’re trying to make kids jealous with romance. Also “creepy” sounds dramatic, he’s the one who’s like 8-year-old in his head while recording lol. Just let kids watch cartoons.