Tom Hanks talks Toy Story 4

Tom Hanks has been on a 28-year journey with Toy Story. As the fourth instalment arrives in cinemas, he tells Laura Harding how his life has changed since he first started lending his voice to Woody.

It was 1991 when Tom Hanks first went into a booth at Disney Studios to lend his voice to the character of cowboy Woody.

That was before Sleepless In Seattle, before his consecutive Oscar wins for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, and long before the world knew what a Pixar movie even was.

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

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