Toy Story 5: Tom Hanks says film tackles 'terror' of technology

US actor Tom Hanks has said the latest Toy Story film highlights children's addiction to screens, an issue that he says strikes "terror in the heart". The fifth instalment of the animated franchise sees Woody, Buzz and Jessie threatened by a new frog-like tablet known as Lilypad, which captivates the film's children. Hanks said the cast related to the storyline because they had all "met that disinterest" of young people who "look down at their phone, look up, look down, look up". "This is a generational thing," he told the BBC's David Sillito, "where one generation has this thing that defines them technologically in society, and they pour everything into it." The actor highlighted "a moment in the movie where we look out on the cityscape and we see that blue glow of a phone in bedrooms and whatnot, and it does strike terror into the heart". Toy Story 5, released later this month, sees Hanks, Tim Allen and Joan Cusack return to their roles voicing Woody, Buzz Lightyear and Jessie, while Past Lives star Greta Lee joins the cast to voice Lilypad. Villains in previous Toy Story movies have included a large purple teddy bear called Lotso, troubled next-door neighbour Sid, a ruthless toy