Hollywood Tom Hanks experiences 'the same anxiety' with all Toy Story films

Tom Hanks has "experienced the same anxiety" on all five Toy Story movies.

The 69-year-old actor has voiced the part of Woody in all five Toy Story films, and Tom admits that it's been a similar experience every time, even though the first Toy Story movie premiered in 1995.

Tom - who has returned to the part of Woody for Toy Story 5 - told Entertainment Weekly: "Over the course of five movies, we've gone back to the same confines, and it's the same geometry.

"The mic is here, the stand is there, the team is there. They might have some props or what have you, but if you could have taken me at any point in all of the recording of all of these, I experienced the same anxiety, pressure, physical demands of it. So there actually is a familiar sameness."

Despite this, Tom admits that Woody has evolved during the course of the five Toy Story films.

The Hollywood star said: "He has been played with to excess.

"You put a rubber hat on top of a rubber head again and again and again and again, something's gonna chafe. So, yeah, he does have … let's say a worn area on the back of his head.

"He is not shaped plastic. He is made of stuffing and cloth, and that stuff settles over time."

Tom previously admitted to feeling proud of the ever-increasing emotional depth of the Toy Story films.

The award-winning actor admitted to being surprised by the emotional range of the movies and the characters.

Tom - who has reunited with Tim Allen to make the new Toy Story film - said on The Chris Evans Breakfast Show: "When I realised what they were going for, I realised, 'Oh, this is a moment in history'. The emotional range of the movies has become more and more deep and profound and affecting."

Tom hailed the Toy Story franchise as a "very, very, very special collection of movies".

The actor also observed that each of the films "hits" the audience in a "completely individual way".

Tom said: "Here's the thing about those geniuses that are there at Pixar and everybody who has ever been involved in any of the Toy Story things: they invented something there. It is a very, very, very special collection of movies that have been put together that, I think, hits each one of us in a completely individual way."