Alan Tudyk was a guest On the “Toon’d In with Jim Cummings” podcast.
In the interview, Alan said he was dropped from the marketing of 2004’s “I, Robot”.
Tudyk said that he tested higher than the film’s star Will Smith with test screening audiences
“ A lot of people did not know I did Sonny the Robot in ‘I, Robot,’ and there is a reason ,” Tudyk said. “ 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.”
“I was so shocked, ” he continued. “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 ve