Tom Hanks: ‘I have offspring that didn’t exist when I started making Toy Story’

When the film eventually came out in 1995, the same year he starred in Apollo 13, it changed cinema forever.

It was the first feature-length film entirely created using computer animation, and it rewrote the rulebook on what an animated film could be.

“Every one of these films has been some version of a miracle,” Hanks, now 62, says in wonder, days before the release of Toy Story 4.

“The first one because we were all left wondering, ‘How did they do that?’

“Then the second one because, lo and behold, everything in there actually made sense and they solved all these problems.

“I would say say to them, ‘Hey Pixar, how are you going to get toys across a street in this one?’ And they say, ‘Yeah we have like 17 different scenarios of how to get toys across the street.’

“And if they can figure that out, I guess they can figure out all the other emotional arcs that they have to play with in this.

“Then the end of 3 was… oh my lord it was like the end of The Passion Play At Oberammergau or something like that. It was this all-encompassing look at life and the lessons to be learned from it.”

But it’s because of this that Hanks was nervous to come back and make a fourth film.

It’s been almost 10 years since the last one was in cinemas, won two Oscars

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