Toy Story 5 Has "One of the Most Heartbreaking Scenes" in the Franchise, Tom Hanks Says

Longtime Woody histrion Tom Hanks has said Toy Story 5 has "one of the astir heartbreaking scenes" the Pixar movie franchise has seen successful its 30-year history.

The prima opened up astir his feelings regarding the caller movie during a speech with The Hollywood Reporter. He said Pixar, which is already celebrated for its quality to make tear-jerking moments, managed to travel up with an particularly bittersweet country for Woody and Buzz Lightyear's latest adventure, going arsenic acold arsenic to picture the infinitesimal up of the movie's premiere.

Warning! Spoilers for Toy Story 5 follow.

"There's 1 of the astir heartbreaking scenes I've ever seen successful immoderate of the Toy Story movies — erstwhile that small miss is getting her feelings wounded by what different radical are texting astir her, and she doesn't recognize why," Hanks said. "She doesn't cognize what she did wrong, but it hurts, and that is simply a precise prescient happening to person successful a question representation contiguous astir small kids and toys, don't you think?"

Toy Story is nary objection erstwhile it comes to Pixar's way grounds for making its audiences good up. Toy Story 3, which features much than a fewer tearful goodbyes, mightiness person the champion examples of bittersweet moments for the franchise truthful far. Even the series' archetypal movie, which debuted arsenic the Disney company's archetypal diagnostic movie successful 1995, fights against adust eyes erstwhile Buzz has the realization that helium is, successful fact, a toy.

For Hanks, it's Toy Story 5 that mightiness person the saddest country of them all. Audiences astatine location are waiting to spot the caller movie for themselves earlier ranking it amongst Pixar's best, but the histrion said helium has a peculiar attachment to Woody and the gang.

"They ever instrumentality maine to immoderate different affectional spot that I'm some blessed to [go] and huffy that they're going to marque maine bash this," helium joked. "But [Tim Allen] and I person done this enough. When I saw the archetypal country wherever 500 Buzz Lightyears travel up retired of the water, I conscionable said, 'Oh, Tim's gonna person a tract time connected this.' Thank goodness helium has to dependable 500 of these things, and I don't."

Toy Story volition reunite Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and much of Bonnie's toys erstwhile it comes to theaters June 19, 2026. In the meantime, you tin work astir wherefore immoderate Taylor Swift fans deliberation the popular prima has a transportation with Pixar's latest.

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