Tom Hanks has said he had to take a "moment to collect himself" after reading the final lines of Toy Story 4.
The US actor, who reprises the role of Woody, revealed his co-star Tim Allen (aka Buzz Lightyear) had texted him before he had finished the script to warn that he was still "recovering" from the final recording.
"I actually had a transcendental moment of going back to 1991 when we started all of this. I was in the same room, with the same engineers, the same people and I had to take a moment to collect myself," Hanks said.
Producers Jonas Rivera and Mark Nielsen agreed that it was an "emotional" end, especially for the original cast who have a 24-year history with Toy Story.
"We knew we had to go pretty far to make this movie worthy of the first three," Rivera said.
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"I think we slowly but surely worked our way to going, 'no that's how it has to be, we've got to dramatise that and get to that punch line', so we are proud of that."
Hanks and the crew were speaking at the European premiere of the film in Leicester Square, London, ahead of its release on 21 June.
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