Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there’s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot .
During an appearance on Toon’d In with Jimmy Cummings , Tudyk said that with test screening audiences, he tested higher than the film’s star Will Smith .
“They were doing test audiences with the movie and they score the characters and I got word back, ‘Alan, you’re testing higher than Will Smith,'” Tudyk recalled on the podcast from June 15 . “And then I was gone. I was gone. There was no publicity and my name was not mentioned.”
He continued, “I was so shocked, I was like, ‘But wait, nobody’s going to know that I [play the robot].'”
Tudyk voiced Sonny the robot and was motion-captured for the CGI character, saying that he “pu