{"id":548472,"date":"2026-06-22T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/548472\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:53:09","slug":"inside-toy-story-5-with-voice-actor-lori-alan-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/548472\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside &#8216;Toy Story 5&#8217; With Voice Actor Lori Alan: Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Pictured: Co-directors Andrew Stanton and Kenna Harris, Lori Alan, and producer Jessica Choi)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Lori:<\/b>\u00a0I have to remind myself to get off my phone at night so I can sleep better. Especially with all these great things going on with Toy Story,\u00a0I&#8217;m like, &#8220;Lori, put your phone down!&#8221; It makes me realize that face-to-face contact is what&#8217;s most important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I love about the film&#8217;s message is that we&#8217;re not denying tech or devices. It&#8217;s so cute that the toys go find the older devices, like Smarty Pants and Snappy. That&#8217;s part of Pixar&#8217;s magic. The film acknowledges that technology is part of our lives while reminding us that human connection is what really matters.<\/p>\n<p>The scenes that are so moving are when Jessie is really struggling. She needs a child, and she feels like she&#8217;s lost her purpose. In this crazy world, we need joy and community. We need to be there for one another. When she has that moment, <b>[no spoilers \u2014 you&#8217;ll know which one],\u00a0<\/b>I can&#8217;t stop tearing up and having chills. It&#8217;s when she realizes, &#8220;That&#8217;s my purpose. I do belong,&#8221; and Bullseye is right there beside her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Pictured: Co-directors Andrew Stanton and Kenna Harris, Lori Alan, and producer Jessica Choi) Lori:\u00a0I have to remind myself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[124757,18,117,4152,19,17,327,965],"class_list":["post-548472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bfdc-interviews","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-womens-content"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116794569873064473","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}