{"id":317276,"date":"2026-02-25T23:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:27:07","slug":"how-it-replaced-potato-heads-don-rickles-estelle-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317276\/","title":{"rendered":"How It Replaced Potato Heads Don Rickles, Estelle Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tToy Story<\/a> 5 will keep Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head in the action, despite the deaths of the original voice stars behind the fan-favorite characters. <\/p>\n

\n\tPixar<\/a>\u2018s latest sequel in the Oscar-winning animated franchise hits theaters June 19. Writer-director Andrew Stanton<\/a>\u2018s movie centers on Tom Hanks as the voice of Woody and Tim Allen voicing Buzz Lightyear as the heroes butt heads with new tablet Lilypad (Greta Lee). <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a Reddit AMA<\/a> on Tuesday, Stanton responded to a fan\u2019s question about how the franchise dealt with replacing the late Don Rickles<\/a> as Mr. Potato Head and Estelle Harris as the character\u2019s wife. In Disney<\/a>\u2018s new movie, Jeff Bergman voices Mr. Potato Head, while Anna Vocino is the voice of Mrs. Potato Head.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere were auditions for that, yes,\u201d Stanton replied. \u201cWe found two people that sounded very close to the original actors!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRickles, who died in 2017<\/a> at 90, had voiced Mr. Potato Head since the original Toy Story that hit theaters in 1995, while Harris, whose Mrs. Potato Head was introduced during 1999\u2019s Toy Story 2, passed away in 2022<\/a> at 93. Mr. Potato Head had a small role in 2019\u2019s Toy Story 4 through the use of Rickles\u2019 archival recordings<\/a> as the character. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Toy Story 5<\/a> trailer, released last week<\/a>, includes Bergman\u2019s Mr. Potato Head reflecting on Woody and Buzz\u2019s friendship: \u201cIt\u2019s good to see them fighting again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, Toy Story 5 will see Ernie Hudson take over the part of Combat Carl after Carl Weathers, who died in 2024<\/a> at 76, voiced the role in Toy Story 4.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the Reddit AMA to promote the release of his Hulu feature In the Blink of an Eye, Stanton was also asked if he would do anything differently on his 2012 movie John Carter<\/a>, given that the live-action Disney film became an infamous box office flop<\/a>. Stanton, who has been involved in the writing process of every Toy Story movie, has also helmed such features as Finding Nemo, WALL-E and Finding Dory.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf I got to do it again, I would do everything exactly that same as before,\u201d Stanton responded about John Carter. \u201cI loved every second of making that movie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toy Story 5 will keep Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head in the action, despite the deaths of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[104425,9618,147943,93,61,60,147944,270,28020,78297,65723],"class_list":{"0":"post-317276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-andrew-stanton","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-don-rickles","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-john-carter","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-pixar","17":"tag-toy-story","18":"tag-toy-story-5"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}