'Aladdin' Voice Actor Reveals What It Was Like Working With Robin Williams
Scott Weinger, the voice behind the young street scamp Aladdin in Disney’s 1992 animated classic is now 40 years old. But when he was in the recording booth with Robin Williams while voicing the film, Weinger was still in high school — and not terribly experienced. “It’s very intimidating to walk into a room when you’re a teenager to work with, like, a giant movie star — particularly one that you worship,” he told Yahoo Movies during an interview with other voice cast members from Aladdin. Weinger even had a Dead Poets Society poster, picturing Williams, on his bedroom wall. But as the young actor got to know the comedy giant better, he said, “he put me so at ease that I wasn’t nervous by the time we got to the business.”
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That didn’t mean working with Williams was all easy. “I just had to cover my mouth to try to not laugh and ruin the take,” Weinger says of playing opposite the late actor, who famously ad-libbed many of his lines as the big blue Genie.
Watch what other Aladdin cast members remember about Williams in the video above. And for fans, a digitally remastered Blu-ray with new extras is out now.
