Toy Story 5 — Filmmaker Interview with Blake Silva

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Well, I'm so happy to be here with you all. Lindsay, Andrew, Kenna, thank you for sitting down with me. I'm very excited about this movie and I wanted to start with a burning question that I have for all of you across all the movies in the franchise. Who We could go in order this way. Who's your favorite Toy Story antagonist?

[00:00:15]>> Antagonist.

[00:00:16]>> I say that because villain can be kind of nuanced and we have a lot of good arcs in Toy Story.

[00:00:20]>> Yeah.

[00:00:21]>> Yeah.

[00:00:22]>> Prospector Pete.

[00:00:23]>> Okay.

[00:00:24]>> Yeah. Prospector Pete. Stinky Pete.

[00:00:26]>> Sid.

[00:00:27]>> Sid. Oh, well, they're all so good.

[00:00:30]>> You can pick the same one.

[00:00:31]>> I guess Stinky Peak because two is my favorite. Two is my favorite of the Toy Story.

[00:00:35]>> So, maybe some would would disagree that he's an antagonist, but Zurg is mine.

[00:00:38]So, I'm very honored to also be SITTING HERE WITH YOU >> because I love Toy Story 2 and I'm a Star Wars fan. Like, that's funny. So, in the vein of Toy Story 2, actually, one of my favorite sequences in Toy Story is the toy fixer, Jerry, who fixes up Woody in the second movie. So, >> an o to the exorcist when he's at the door.

[00:00:57]>> Ah.

[00:01:08]>> Well, I would love to ask you that being said, obviously there was a creative choice to let Woody kind of age in Toy Story 5. I'm sure you're talking about the bald spot a lot, but how >> you were the first person to make the connection to Toy Story 2.

[00:01:19]>> Oh, I love that. So, how did you decide that that wear and tear was going to be present? Well, first we didn't know what angle to do with Woody. We knew he had gone out into the field and was having the time of his life and finding a new purpose post kid to like help other toys. And >> but then we thought, well, he's lived in and so we had the the story team come up with a lot of gags and one of them was the bald spot which cracked us up and then we were like, we have to do that.

[00:01:44]>> Shiny.

[00:01:45]came up with all the other gags and uh but it made sense, you know, it >> just he's been living and time's passed and and the thing that's the >> uh gem about these movies is that we get to embrace time. We get to let time pass for the children, for the toys, for life.

[00:02:01]>> Yeah, I love that. And obviously Toy Story has a lot of emotion. Toy Story 3 is very emotional. Um and Lindsay, you've worked on some very emotional titles yourself, including Elio. Win or Lose is one of my favorite Pixar projects. So, thank you for that amazing work. Actually, we watched 46 minutes of the movie last night and I was feeling connected to Win or Lose while we watched it because Win or Lose follows so many different story lines in the same time frame and I felt like we were kind of doing that with Blaze and Bonnie. And I would love to just hear how Win or Lose maybe impacted the way that you're working or worked on Toy Story 5.

[00:02:32]>> Oh, wow. That's a connection.

[00:02:34]>> Yeah.

[00:02:35]>> Gosh. I mean, I love that connection actually that you make it. I mean, I love the fact anytime you can kind of well, Andrew does this very well, so I'll give him full credit, but >> the fact that you have multiple timelines or multiple story lines going and trying to interweave them together and kind of wondering where they're going to end up >> is something I think I give you full credit. That's always I think you >> It's cuz I'm a fan of those things.

[00:02:58]>> I know, but I think as a writer, you like to do them. And I think this one is no different. And I think the fact that you did then you throw in like 50 buzzes as another time. You're like how are they all going to come together? And I think the fact that you have these two girls to your point >> kind of running these kind of parallel lives kind of having this parallel struggle >> if you know around friendship and we didn't get too much into it because you didn't get a chance to see it but that they're having these kind of similar struggles in their lives that that we're trying to kind of see from the toys perspectives is really fun. And I think the fact that you actually get to see the toys perspective, but in this film, then you're actually really starting to see a little bit more of the kids.

[00:03:40]>> Um, which is a different thing than we've done on Toy Story in the past.

[00:03:43]You're actually seeing a little bit more of the kids' lives play at a forefront than you've seen in the other Toy Story films. And I think that's kind of a a win or lose vibe to it. Um, and it and it allows you to kind of see two perspectives on the story a little bit more than we've seen in other Toy Story.

[00:03:58]So, I think that's that is a new a new shade of it.

[00:04:00]>> I love that. And you're very familiar kind of with younger story lines. Luca.

[00:04:04]>> Yes.

[00:04:04]>> Love Luca. Ciao. Alberto. I love that so much. Um so what did it feel like to have worked on some amazing projects like that and then find out that you were going to be joining the fun of toy verse tech.

[00:04:15]>> It was it was wild. Um I remember meeting you the first day we ever met.

[00:04:20]You wore shades and I was like, "Oh no, he's so cool."

[00:04:23]>> We were outside.

[00:04:24]>> I know. But >> let's just say I was we were outside the benefit of the doubt. It was sunny.

[00:04:29]Andrew wearing sunglasses inside.

[00:04:30]>> I was like, "Oh, he's wearing shades.

[00:04:31]He's so cool. He wrote my childhood."

[00:04:34]So, there was an intimidation factor there. Um, and it was just exciting because I I basically >> got to spend three, fourish years, uh, writing fanfic about my favorite characters. Like, I got to continue Jesse's storyline. She's stuck with me since my childhood. So, it was satisfying. It was so satisfying to get to join in on that.

[00:04:54]>> That's so special.

[00:04:55]>> Yeah.

[00:04:56]>> I am a 96 baby. So, um, Toy Story 2 was the first one that I like came out when I was, you know, young enough to watch it come out. And I just want to thank you all for the work that you do because you mentioned yesterday that, um, it's amazing that we get this kind of like transcending time. This the the toys don't actually go anywhere because the kids do and I'm a kid that grew up with them and I get to continue to watch them and that's just very cool. So, I just want to thank you for your time and just for the the art.

[00:05:21]>> Thank you for that. It was really nice.

[00:05:23]Thank you. It was a pleasure.

[00:05:24]>> Wow. Great question. Nice meeting you.

[00:05:26]Thanks. Likewise.