Bad Bunny Joins Toy Story 5 Cast!

has been cast in Toy Story 5 as Pizza with Sunglasses after he posted videos of himself playing with Woody and Buzz Lightyear dolls to Instagram during Covid. 

The music superstar, 32, lends his voice to the Pepperoni Slice in the latest instalment in the beloved franchise. 

And now director Andrew Stanton has revealed that the crew approached the Puerto Rican rapper after noticing his love for the characters.

Asked how the cameo roles were cast at Toy Story 5's UK Launch Event, Andrew explained: 'They kind of come up in the moment when you're down to these one-line characters. You find some time to think, "Who would be perfect for this?"

'And over the pandemic, we found out that Bad Bunny was a huge Toy Story fan.

'He was making videos with his Toy Story dolls during the pandemic. He was playing with his Buzz and Woody dolls, and he was doing all of these videos. And so we were like, "Maybe... it wouldn't hurt to ask him." And he said yes.'

It has been teased that Bad Bunny, who has also featured in movies such as Bullet Train and Caught Stealing, will be making a cameo appearance as one of a group of 'forgotten toys'.

His star has risen and this year, Bad Bunny made history as the first artist to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show entirely in Spanish.

The studio teased: 'Effortlessly cool and mysterious, Pizza with Sunglasses is a member of a small but mighty community of forgotten toys that live in an abandoned backyard shed.'

Other famous names lending their voice to Toy Story 5 – which is released in cinemas next month – include Conan O'Brien as potty-training toy Smarty Pants and Alan Cumming as Evil Bullseye.

Meanwhile Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack all return as Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie respectively.

The new movie sees the toys find themselves under threat when eight-year-old Bonnie (Scarlett Spears) becomes enamoured with her frog-like tablet Lilypad (voiced by Greta Lee) but Andrew has stressed that Lilypad is not a villain.

The director told Variety: 'She is to the toys because they're understandably intimidated.

'She's just the next phase in Bonnie's life. She's built like a toy in the sense that she wants to help the kid go forward, but she's got very different skills and zero experience, whereas Jessie has nothing but experience and is probably unprepared for what to do.'

The film's co-writer Kenna Harris explained that there was lots of debate about whether to make Lilypad the film's antagonist.