Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there’s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot. During an appearance on Toon’d In with Jimmy Cummings,

Alan Tudyk has claimed he was removed from I, Robot ’s promotional trail after testing better than Will Smith in early screenings. Tudyk starred in the 2004 sci-fi thriller as Sonny, a robot accused of murder, and used motion-capture to pull off the CGI role.

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.