He's received fitting tribute from Billy Crystal, Kanye West, and Jimmy Fallon, he'll forever appear in World of Warcraft as an all-powerful genie, and Disney even added a tribute to him at the end of Aladdin, but now we'll get to see a new Robin Williams performance one last time. As part of Aladdin's Blu Ray release, Disney has unveiled never-before-seen clips of Williams in the recording studio playing Genie, Uproxx reports.
Good Morning America aired the clips this morning and interviewed Aladdin's original animator, director, and cast members. Naturally, much of their discussion is about Robin Williams: His legend status, his process as he voiced Genie, how great he was to work with—it's enough to start the tears rolling all over again.
Most of the clips show a much younger Williams in a sound booth gesturing wildly, speaking in accents ("The Force, Al, the Force," he intones while an Obi-Wan-Kenobi-like Genie flashes up onscreen), and generally being his crazy ridiculous self. In most cases he voices Genie characters that didn't make it into the film, and in one cut he makes a series of clicking, squeaking, and dinging noises that remind us all exactly how talented—and how out there—he was.
