Astronaut Tim Peake talks his Lightyear cameo, exploding toilets in space, and aliens

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Lightyear might be all about the fictional adventures of Buzz, but the film actually features the voice talent of a very real spaceman – British astronaut Tim Peake. Peake voices the aptly named Tim in the movie, who speaks to Buzz from Mission Control. 

If you're wondering about Peake's galactic credentials, he spent six months on the International Space Station (ISS) from December 2015 to June 2016, which works out as orbiting the Earth around 3,000 times. If that wasn't cool enough, he ran the London Marathon from a treadmill aboard the ISS – becoming the second person to run a marathon from space – and is the first British astronaut to ever undertake a spacewalk. With Lightyear, he's joined the Disney Pixar universe. 

Total Film sat down with Peake to talk all things Lightyear, what sci-fi movies often get wrong about space, and, of course, if he thinks aliens exist. Here's our full conversation, edited for length and clarity. 

Total Film: You have a voice cameo in Lightyear. Can you talk me through how that came about and how you were approached for this part?

Tim Peake: Well, it came about through a phone call from Disney, you know, 'Would you like to be involved?' And it was a very, very easy decision making process. Who wouldn't want to be involved in a Disney Pixar movie? And especially one like Lightyear, when it's been so close to the career that I've been lucky enough to have as a test pilot and going on to be an astronaut. So, no, it was brilliant to get involved.

Were you a big Disney Pixar fan before?

Huge, yes. Growing up watching the early animated movies, and as a father as well, I've got a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old, so Pixar and Disney have been a huge part in our Saturday night movie nights for