Hi, my name is Alan Tudyk,
and this is The First Time.
Well, when I got the audition for
Resident and the first time I ever read it, heard the name, because
didn't
know the comics... They had
evidently already auditioned
hundreds of people and we're ready
to give up.
That's where I came in.
Excuse me, sir.
Are you Dr. Harry van Der Spiegel?
What can I help you with?
It's in my wheelhouse because it's
kind of a since it's an alien,
he's an alien inhabiting a human
body in a in
a world he doesn't understand.
He creates the words
in a way that every word is
its own thing.
It's the mechanical
work that goes behind making sound
and walking and moving
and just basic balance.
And it's kind of
a thing I can do.
Definitely. I've done robots and
there's a similarity.
There's there's similarity there.
So I went in and do the scene about
I think it's in the trailers of me
where I first see the dead body.
And I think it's awesome.
I mistake a woman for being dead.
I'm like, oh, yes, she's been dead
for a week.
She wakes up, get away from me.
It's really funny.
So it it also raises a lot of
humor in it.
And the character
is very smart, also very
stupid, which that's right
in my wheelhouse too comes
some things come naturally, more
naturally than others.
And yeah,
now we can make ten of them.
Can wait for people to see.
The first time I read the Firefly
television script for the pilot,
I was already cast.
I need Kailee in the engine room,
please.
When I auditioned
for it, there was only two
pieces of paper that you got.
And it was the scene
where my character Josh
is playing with dinosaurs.
I think we should call it your
grave.
Oh, curse your
sudden but inevitable betrayal.
Which really gives you a sense of
the tone of the show, and
I'm in love with it from that.
And then there was something with my
wife,
my fake wife, the character
Zoe.
That excuse is getting a little
worn. Honey, it's not an excuse,
dear.
I remember when I got the pages,
I was like, this is what is this?
I can't audition to go
be in a show for seven years,
probably
with just two pages of
information about it.
And I called a friend who I'd gone
to school with who was working
more than more than me.
And I was like, hey, should I do
this? And he said, Who's to
doing Joss?
We do it like before we
do it.
Do it, do it. You've got to do it.
So I set my audition in and then
two months later,
I completely forgotten all about it.
And I got a call and they said, they
want to test you for Firefly.
I was like, that's a mistake.
I don't even know what that is.
I've never heard of it.
And they explained,
oh, right, that thing.
And then I auditioned and
then I read the script.
First time I performed a motion
capture in iRobot, Atsumi Canor,
my name is something I
loved it.
I showed up in Vancouver
to do Sunny
the Robot, and I had all these
ideas and they said, we're going to
get you someone to work with you for
movement to decide how the robot
moves.
I was like, I think they a
choreographer that were they use as
they are not into
that. And then you
can meet him. We're all going to sit
down. We're all going to talk.
So we went to the production
office to meet and
I'm sitting inside this waiting room
and I've got books with me.
I've got the Alexander Technique
Mime, a book of mine, Lecoq
School of Masks.
And there's this guy sitting
on the other end of the table sort
of cattycorner to me.
And we're sitting there waiting to
go into this conference room and
him and he's like, are you I'm
sorry, are you out?
Like, Oh, yeah, yeah.
OK, so we he
came up and he pulls out books
from his backpack and they were all
very similar to my books.
I was like, this is going to be
great.
And that's what we would do, go
into a studio for an hour,
at least in the mornings and just
work out how the robot walked.
And I put on a big spandex
panty that was green
and not attractive and board for
six months.
And Will Smith would comment on my
butt.
I was cast in dodgeball.
And I'm
working with this guy, he's getting
me a gold tooth and I can wait a
second. Your name Richard Snell.
And he goes, Yeah, how do you
know me? Like, my first movie
ever was Patch Adams.
Oh, baby, how does
Hitler say hello?
I had gotten hides
the night before.
I had gone to Chinatown, San
Francisco, where we were shooting
and I ate something.
I still don't know what it was, but
I woke up this morning.
I had hives all over my
face and then they would like
retreat from my face and they'd be
on my back and they go on the top of
my head. It was nuts.
I got to work.
I ended up having to go to the
doctor and they gave me adrenaline
shot and after I drink and
a bunch of coffee, so my performance
in Patch Adams is chemically
enhanced.
Maybe he knows why we're cramped.
But Richard Snel,
who was a guy in charge, it gave me
a weird, squirrely I
saw my hive's.
It was like I got to take pictures
of this. This is what I do, makeup
and hair. So he's I've got my shirt
off and there's this I'm doing like
hive's photos.
So Richard and I know each other.
Anyway, Richard Snell,
it was like, what is this?
You're you're a pirate.
And he's trying to figure out what's
going on. I'm like, oh, no, it isn't
making fun of pirates.
It's a guy who thinks he's a pirate,
he's delusional and he thinks he's
the pirate.
But he lives in the world and
everybody supports his delusion.
He's like, oh, because I'm a pirate,
but it's like I'm a I'm a rum
runner. We are pirates.
Actually, there's a pirate festival
coming up this next week.
And I think please,
please, can I come?
And they invited me.
Missi Pyle went also
who was in that movie.
And it was a blast.
It was kind of like Scarbro Fair,
but only pirates in a
good place to buy a dagger
if you need one or
or like to practice
shooting arrows.
It was a good time.
First time I met Frank, Oz was
doing a death at a funeral.
I auditioned for that accolade
in the process.
And it was one of those I just the
tape I sent in.
And to play a guy
who's completely high
and I got
a phone call, hey, it's breakfast.
It's like, what?
Hello. Hi.
And he's like concussion.
Really like your tape.
That was really good.
Nobody here is on board with
you
if it's.
So we're going to have to jump a few
hurdles if you want to be in it.
I can jump.
Let's whoop it up.
I was an English, you know, that was
another thing was all English
people. There's there's the other
desert field. That's an American
version. This is the English with
the pasty white people.
I'm I'm in the pasty white group.
Really. Frank has just said, this is
my guy. And the producer
said, OK, you get
you get to have him.
And I showed up.
They were already in rehearsals.
I showed up that day and I said,
this is the office.
And this time over there on the
company answering
the phones of this Gina and hello.
And then so I
don't know. Are you planning the
rest?
What do you think about rehearsal?
There's rehearsing.
Oh, they've been doing it for two
hours.
I'm sorry, guys, but let's get to
rehearsal. I walked in and they were
already rehearsing the the
actual funeral scene.
And it was like goes, oh, I'm sorry,
everybody is out.
He's playing Simon.
Simon, you're sitting here great.
And you're high because
my character ICIC and
immediately started laughing.
Inappropriately in the scene.
The first time I was introduced to
Kato was
in a
like a face time with Gareth
Edwards, who directed it, and
I didn't think I was really
auditioning for the role.
I'm Katusa.
I'm a reprogramed Imperial
Droid.
I thought he was talking to me
because I had done
Sunny and I robot and I knew
what motion capturing a robot is.
And that's how I had the
conversation because I.
So how are you going
to do this?
He's like, well, the word and I was
not at all auditioning for the role
or trying to be anything.
I was collaborating from the very
beginning, like whatever
movement you do
or whoever does it, whatever
movement they do, even if they make
a mistake, I want to capture that.
I was like, no, you know, you
tell yourself you want that, but
that is not what you want.
Don't marry yourself to this whole
idea of some kind of purity
and the artistic process, because
this is you have it up to you
do more with this and you should.
And that's how I that's how we
talked to then he wanted to meet
me afterwards
and then he just gave me the job in
the room. It was so crazy.
First time I did the job, I was
asked by Patrick adjusting
to audition for it, but we had
done powerless together.
I said, I'll give it a shot.
But in this fight, I'm afraid
I have to take a tie.
And I just threw it on my phone,
like, send it in in ten minutes.
I could believe I got it,
because I think this is first of
all, Mark Hamill should do it.
And then secondly, here's just my
idea of it. And they gave it to me.
It's cool because I'm also Clayface
and they said I
would get Clayface, but
Joker was just unbelievable.
That's that's big stuff.