A lot of people did not know I did Sonny the Robot in I, Robot, and there is a reason. They were doing test audiences for the movie, and they score the characters in this kind of test screening. I got word back: ‘Alan, you are testing higher than Will Smith.’ And then I was gone. I was done. There was no publicity, and my name was not mentioned.

After co-starring in I, Robot with Will Smith, Alan Tudyk revealed that over 20 years later, he was the secret headliner all along.

Summer movie champ Will Smith starred in the Oscar-nominated “I, Robot” as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in a world of worker robots. In the movie, Spooner investigates the death of the founder of U.S. Robotics, which is supposed to have been a suicide. His key suspect is the robot Sonny, played by Tudyk.