27 May 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nToy Story 5’s Wallace Shawn does not want to die yet.<\/p>\n
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Toy Story 5’s Wallace Shawn<\/p>\n
\nThe 82-year-old actor has had a life filled with luck, and he wants more time to enjoy his good fortune.<\/p>\n
\nInterview magazine asked Vanya on 42nd Street’s Wallace if he could relate to the line “I wish I could start anew and forget the past” from the 1994 romcom.<\/p>\n
\nThe star replied: “That wouldn\u2019t be true of me. If I had a wish, it would be that I wouldn\u2019t be taken off the earth by death so soon.”<\/p>\n
\nAsked if that was due to him wanting to make “more art”, Wallace responded: “No, it\u2019s just that I\u2019m not ready to go. <\/p>\n
\n“I\u2019ve had very, very, very good luck. I mean, my wish would be that I could live longer and continue having good luck. <\/p>\n
\n“If you believe that people ultimately get what they deserve, a lot of bad things would happen to me very soon, because I really had uncannily good luck.”<\/p>\n
\nWallace, who voices Rex the dinosaur in the Toy Story film series, credited his “privileged” upbringing – mom Cecille was a journalist, and dad William was the editor of The New Yorker – for a successful life.<\/p>\n
\nHe explained: “People who have good luck have tools to grab more good luck. I came from a privileged background. I didn\u2019t know that, and my parents were not, in a strange way, very conscious of it either. But I had every opportunity. <\/p>\n
\n“For a brief period, I thought maybe I would lead a humbler sort of life, much humbler than my parents\u2019 life. Then, I became an actor, and I returned to having a pretty comfortable bourgeois life. In a way, I\u2019m still downwardly mobile from my parents…”<\/p>\n
\nWallace quipped: “But I don\u2019t think my mother ever had a cappuccino. So am I downwardly mobile or upwardly mobile? Because I can have cappuccinos all the time.”<\/p>\n
\nThe Young Sheldon alum, whose career spans over 50 years, cannot bear to watch his old projects back.<\/p>\n
\nWallace explained: “A lot of actors don\u2019t like to watch themselves. For me, it\u2019s my new hobby or something. I don\u2019t expect you to understand, but time telescopes backwards. <\/p>\n
\n“The last 49 years that I\u2019ve been acting feel like a very short part of my life, and something I took up quite recently and never expected to do. I don\u2019t feel some of the things that people who always dreamed of being actors feel. <\/p>\n
\n“Obviously, I have little moments of being upset, where I think, ‘I didn\u2019t do that moment very well.’<\/p>\n
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