{"id":337129,"date":"2025-08-12T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337129\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:57:11","slug":"alan-tudyk-says-he-was-removed-from-i-robots-press-materials-after-testing-higher-than-will-smith-in-early-screenings-i-was-very-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337129\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Tudyk Says He Was Removed From &#8216;I, Robot&#8217;s Press Materials After Testing Higher Than Will Smith In Early Screenings: &#8220;I Was Very Upset&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alan-tudyk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alan-tudyk\" data-tag=\"alan-tudyk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Tudyk<\/a> reflected on his career and revealed that there\u2019s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring an appearance on Toon\u2019d In with Jimmy Cummings, Tudyk said that with test screening audiences, he tested higher than the film\u2019s star <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/will-smith\/\" id=\"auto-tag_will-smith\" data-tag=\"will-smith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThey were doing test audiences with the movie and they score the characters and I got word back, \u2018Alan, you\u2019re testing higher than Will Smith,&#8217;\u201d Tudyk recalled on the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lV0ElD0eTHA\"> podcast from June 15<\/a>. \u201cAnd then I was gone. I was gone. There was no publicity and my name was not mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe continued, \u201cI was so shocked, I was like, \u2018But wait, nobody\u2019s going to know that I [play the robot].&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTudyk voiced Sonny the robot and was motion-captured for the CGI character, saying that he \u201cput a lot into\u201d his performance, adding, \u201cAt the time, I was very upset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDirected by Alex Proyas, I, Robot is set in Chicago 2035 as robots fill public service positions around the world. Will Smith plays Detective Del Spooner as he investigates the death of the U.S. Robotics founder, who believes that Sonny the robot murdered him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film also stars Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, Shia LaBeouf, Fiona Hogan, Terry Chen, Adrian L. Ricard, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Shinkoda, Emily Tennant, and David Haysom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tI, Robot was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Visual Effects, which it ultimately lost to the Sam Raimi-directed superhero action film, Spider-Man 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWatch Tudyk\u2019s interview below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there\u2019s a reason why not many people know he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[120513,4080,77,120514,16,15,103016],"class_list":{"0":"post-337129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alan-tudyk","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-i-robot","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013081094828223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}