Alan Tudyk SLAMS ‘I, Robot’ team for dropping him from promo for Will Smith

Actor Alan Tudyk sat down for an interview on the Toon’d In with Jim Cummings podcast where he revealed a shocking fact about the I, Robot movie.

Explaining that he had been dropped from the promo for receiving a better reception than lead Will Smith in the screenings, he said, “A lot of people did not know I did Sonny the Robot in ‘I, Robot,’ and there is a reason. They were doing test audiences for the movie, and they score the characters in this kind of test screening. I got word back: ‘Alan, you are testing higher than Will Smith.’ And then I was gone. I was done. There was no publicity, and my name was not mentioned.”

He continued, “I was so shocked. I was like, ‘Wait, nobody is going to know I’m in it!’ I put a lot into [that performance]. I had to move like a robot. At the time, I was very upset.”

“Del Spooner investigates the murder of Dr Alfred, who works at US Robotics, with the help of a robopsychologist. He tries to deduce if a robot has violated the laws of robotics and killed him,” reads the synopsis of the movie. 

Tudyk's role as Sonny was one of the earliest depictions of a full CGI character in a major Hollywood production, and it was followed by his later major voiced works like Rogue One and Frozen.

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