Kelsey Mann Recalls Being Approached by Pixar CCO Pete Docter To Direct “Inside Out 2”

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00:00I'm going to start with a very basic, silly question that I'm sure you get all the time.

00:04Why did you make your movie?

00:06Pete Docter asked me.

00:08Oh, simple enough answer.

00:10I seriously, I had on my calendar, I had a meeting pop up, which was with Pete Docter,

00:17who's our chief creative officer and the director of the first film,

00:20and Jim Morris, our president at Pixar.

00:22She said, Jim, Pete, Kelsey meeting Jim's office.

00:26I'm like, uh-oh, what is this meeting?

00:28This is either the best meeting or the worst meeting in the world.

00:32It ended up being the best.

00:33That was the one where Pete was thinking about worlds we could go and revisit.

00:39And I was like, oh, I think he might ask me to do a sequel.

00:41I was thinking about all the movies that I worked on.

00:43And then he said, Inside Out.

00:46And it kind of threw me.

00:47I was like, oh, my God, me?

00:49He goes, yeah, I think you'd be a good person to go off and see if there's an idea.

00:53So that's kind of where it all sparked from,

00:55that random meeting that was on my calendar.