The newly released teaser for the Disney/Pixar sequel,Inside Out 2, offers another look at Riley’s new emotion: Anxiety.Stranger Things’Maya Hawke will voice Anxiety in theInside Outfollow-up, with director Kelsey Mann teasing what’s to come asRiley enters one of the more difficultstages of life.
you’re able to check out the newInside Out 2teaser and what Mann had to say below…
“My original thought was to pitch three ideas … I want to see that thing [the Puberty button] go off. I explored other ideas, but I kept coming back to that. Eventually, I just pitched that to Pete. This is a gold mine for everything we love at Pixar … It’s got heart. It’s got emotion. It’s got humor. Puberty is hilarious, but it’s also a hard time in our lives. I want to say something meaningful about ourselves as humans, but told in an imaginative way.
At the end of the first movie, you saw all these beautiful swirls of memory, where you get Joy and Sadness in the same memory, or Anger and Disgust. I wanted to open this movie with them all in sync with one another and feeling they’re a great team. Until puberty hits.”
Things are getting messy inInside Out 2, which takes us back into Riley’s head and introduces new emotions as she enters her teenage years. From director Kelsey Mann,Inside Out 2promises to build on the foundations of the first movie, which introduced audiences to the likes of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust, the personified emotions living in all our heads.
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A new synopsis and casting details have also since been released. As revealed in the footage,Stranger ThingsstarMaya Hawkelends her voice to Anxiety alongside Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger, Tony Hale as Fear, and Liza Lapira as Disgust.
“The little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” introduces a new Emotion: Anxiety. According to director Kelsey Mann, the new character promises to stir things up within headquarters. “Anxiety, voiced by Maya Hawke, might be new to the crew, but she’s not really the type to take a back seat,” said Mann. “That makes a lot of sense if you think about it in terms of what goes on inside all our minds.” A trailer, poster and film stills are now available for what promises to be the feel-good (or feel-everything) film of Summer 2024.
Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone. Maya Hawke lends her voice to Anxiety, alongside Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger, Tony Hale as Fear, and Liza Lapira as Disgust.”
Pixar CEO Pete Docter has also teased what to expect fromInside Out 2, revealing that it will have just as much heart and emotion as the first, critically acclaimed outing.
“It was really poignant and very heartfelt, very personal to him, but also universal in that same way we were talking about before, having to do with… well, again, I don’t want to pitch his movie, but it’s got a real great heart to it, a really great core that is central to some of these new emotions showing up. It’s all connected.”
Disney & Pixar Have Several Exciting Projects in the Pipeline
Inside Out 2is just one of several major projects coming from the House of Mouse. From Pixar, the beloved animation studiowill also releaseElio, which follows an underdog with an active imagination who finds himself inadvertently beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s ambassador to the rest of the universe, and completely unprepared for that kind of pressure, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, survive a series of formidable trials and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Docter has also recently teased further sequels to some of their most treasured movies,includingToy Story, The Incredibles,andCars.
“It’s all fair game. Our philosophy from the beginning has been the same. The people have changed, but the approach is the same. We tap people that we believe in and feel like they have talent and something to say. We ask them to talk about things that are important to them. If this is impactful and powerful to a person, they’re going to get on the screen, and it will resonate with audiences. We’re looking to tap these amazingly talented people I get to work with to talk about universal stories that are about life issues that we all face. Our movies on the surface are about fish, cars and monsters, but just below that, they’re really about all of us, and the challenge of dealing with loss, becoming a parent, finding our place in the world.”
As for the wider world of Disney, the studio will continue their live-action remakes withSnow WhitestarringWest Side Story’sRachel Zegler andWonder Womanstar Gal Gadot, which is now due for release on August 07, 2025.
Inside Out 2is scheduled to be theatrically released on June 02, 2025. you’re able to check out the longer trailer forInside Out 2below:
