"Inside Out 2" boasts a stellar cast that includes Amy Poehler ("Joy"), Maya Hawke ("Anxiety"), Tony Hale ("Fear"), Liza Lapira ("Disgust"), Paul Walter Hauser ("Embarrassment"), and Lewis Black ("Anger"). CinemaBlend’s Jeff McCobb chatted with them, as well as filmmakers Kelsey Mann And Mark Nielsen, to discuss everything from conceptualizing Maya Hawke’s "Anxiety" to hiring an advisory group of teenaged girls and, of course, paying tribute to Bing Bong a full decade after that devastating loss.
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00:00I should be really angry at you two because you made me cry at the screening last night.
00:04It's okay to cry. Let's go there. So crying makes you angry?
00:07Yeah. Well, I guess it's like a cathartic cry.
00:09Sure.
00:09No one's really put me on the spot for you.
00:11Okay, but I'd love to just get a little deeper and talk about me too.
00:14Let's talk about me.
00:15You uncomfortable with your emotions?
00:17This is Joy, coming to you live in Riley's mind.
00:21Make some noise!
00:24So no justice for Bing Bong.
00:27Well, pour one out for Bing Bong.
00:28Bing Bong is always in our hearts.
00:31Rest in peace.
00:31But Bing Bong is the ultimate sacrifice.
00:34When Bing Bong died, you know, America mourned.
00:38But it has been 10 years and we all have had a lot of loss.
00:42We got to move, keep going.
00:44And that's a lot of the spirit of Pixar is, you know, you know, there's like in this sequel,
00:49we have to figure out how to keep going as a person.
00:52But you want it.
00:53You want Bing Bong avenged?
00:55Bing Bong back.
00:57Bing Bong's death and Dobby's death are hotter are two, like, really, like, knife-to-the-heart moments for me.
01:04Yeah.
01:05Life is crazy.
01:06I know.
01:07Life is crazy.
01:08I know.
01:08Why do bad things happen to good people?
01:10We were talking earlier about that was kind of the moment in all movies that really, really tugged the heart.
01:18And, um, yeah, I always hope, I always hope.
01:21But he's kind of, I don't know.
01:23He's everywhere.
01:24He's everywhere because he dissipates and he's kind of in the air.
01:26Mad or can't be.
01:27Just like Richard Connors.
01:29So maybe if you look into the pixels, if you look into the pixels of the film, maybe he's in the pixels.
01:35Maybe there's an Easter egg there, yeah.
01:36But that's the moment that broke me or us.
01:38Yeah, definitely, definitely.
01:40Well, you two were off the hook, though.
01:41Oh, that's true.
01:42This is your first four, you know what I mean?
01:43Oh, that's right.
01:44You're not responsible.
01:45You're not responsible.
01:46That's true.
01:47That's true.
01:47All right.
01:48Congratulations.
01:49You came out clean.
01:51Yes, we did.
01:52Mission accomplished.
01:53Poor Bing Bong.
01:55Yeah.
01:55I love Bing Bong.
01:57Don't we all?
01:57Yeah.
01:59There is a bit of a, there's a bit of a nod to Bing Bong.
02:01I don't know if you're paying close enough attention to check him out, but he's, he's, he's there.
02:06He's there.
02:07A little Easter egg.
02:07Yeah.
02:08Maybe my eyes were too full of tears.
02:10A little nod to him.
02:10A little nod to him.
02:12A little nod to him.
02:13I'm glad.
02:14I'm glad you did that.
02:15Yeah.
02:15I'm sure you're going to get this one a lot, but have you thought about who would you include in the next one?
02:19Well, he's got more ideas than I do.
02:22I'd like to cut the squad down.
02:24Yeah.
02:25So that there's a better paycheck, but that's me.
02:30That's just outright greed.
02:33I said I wanted, what did I say?
02:35I wanted Jon Hamm to voice competition or competitive nature.
02:39Oh, that's really good.
02:40That's a good one.
02:41That'd be a good one.
02:41Yeah.
02:42And you know what I like about this?
02:43He'd do it too.
02:44Yeah.
02:44Yeah.
02:45That dude, he's a real player.
02:47He can be thrown into anything.
02:49Was there a sense of relief?
02:50Like, oh God, people are loving this character.
02:52I'm anxiety.
02:53I am just such a huge fan of yours.
02:56That was awesome.
02:57I try not to be too much online because what I find is that the good stuff washes over you
03:03and the bad stuff hits you like darts.
03:06And so I try not to take in too much, but I often do.
03:11And I go through different periods of like being addicted to taking it in or like having
03:14space for it.
03:15But I have to say getting to be a part of something like this that is just so loved by people.
03:20Yeah.
03:21It definitely makes me feel like safe and held.
03:23And I was really worried about not doing a good enough job and like being in like the
03:28one thing that could ruin a Pixar movie.
03:30Like that's how powerful you are.
03:32You can ruin a Pixar movie.
03:34No one's ever done it before.
03:35But you can.
03:36And so I think that that moment of being like, even it was before I even finished all my
03:41work on it of people being like, we that's good.
03:44We're good.
03:44You're good.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Well, good.
03:47We are just super jazzed to be here.
03:49Where can I put my stuff?
03:50You know, I try to tap into my audience member brain and I'm like, what do I want from seeing
03:55the first film?
03:56And I'm like, I want new emotions to show up.
03:59What could show up?
04:00Right.
04:00And I made a whole list of what we could do.
04:03And anxiety was on that list.
04:05And I just remember circling it very early on.
04:08I'm like, whoa, there's something here.
04:11I can really relate to that emotion, especially when I was Riley's age.
04:18And even now, and that was pre-pandemic.
04:21Wow.
04:21And then we went into the pandemic.
04:23It was already.
04:24Timing.
04:24Yeah.
04:25It was already on the rise in teenagers when I started.
04:28And when we decided that's a story worth telling.
04:31And then we all went into the pandemic and it got dialed up even more, not only in teenagers,
04:37but kind of in everybody.
04:38Yeah.
04:39I think that I might have a crush on disgust.
04:42Yeah, you should.
04:43What does that say about me?
04:44That you have eyes and a brain.
04:46Well, I love her relationship with Lance.
04:51Slash play.
04:52Slash play.
04:53Slash play.
04:55So good.
04:55Yeah.
04:56Talk about it.
04:57Well, I mean, why wouldn't you have a crush on her?
04:59She's smartly dressed, but she's also very, she knows what she wants.
05:04She knows what's not good enough.
05:05I mean, that woman would run your household.
05:08Yeah.
05:08Yeah.
05:08I don't know why you don't have a crush on fear.
05:10I don't know why we're not talking about fear.
05:14All right.
05:15Riley's life requires more sophisticated emotions than all of you.
05:19You can't just bottle us up.
05:23We are suppressed emotions.
05:30Because we have anxiety in this one, does that mean we meet Xanax in the next one?
05:35Stay tuned.
05:37You never know.
05:39Oh, interesting.
05:40I think, yeah, probably not.
05:42Yeah, probably not.
05:43Probably not.
05:43But we have been talking about the third and like all the different, like, you know,
05:47it feels like every 10 years you have a reset in your mind and suddenly these emotions come
05:53in and you think, wow, I never knew that I were going to be dealing with this.
05:56I think the Xanax in this world is cup of tea, comfy chair.
06:00I mean, you get that cutaway at the end.
06:02Yeah.
06:02There's so many really great ideas that I'm like, that is such a fun, clever idea.
06:07I don't know how to make it work for this particular story.
06:11Like, why do we, here's a good one, the emotion of Schadenfreude.
06:16Do you know that emotion?
06:17I don't.
06:18It's a German expression for the feeling you get in taking pleasure in someone else's pain.
06:23Huh, Schadenfreude?
06:25Yes.
06:25Wow, I learned something new.
06:27So, we had this German character show up, like, fear, like, hit his head or something and
06:31was like, ow!
06:32And then the children's point, it was like, ah, your cries of pain amuse me!
06:38Yeah, German accent, probably better than what I just did.
06:40You crushed it, actually.
06:41That was pretty good.
06:42That was better than I thought of this.
06:45It's cool to get to be a part of a character that kind of has an arc and helps in the end,
06:50yeah.
06:51Hey, you're like Vin Diesel now.
06:53Please don't say that.
06:54I like to think I'm on time.
06:57And approachable.
06:59I don't know what I'm allowed to talk about.
07:01I'm sorry, I love people, but when I hear stories about Hollywood actors who get paid
07:06really well and mistreat people, I out them constantly.
07:10Yeah, it's awful.
07:10And it's a blast.
07:11What other emotion do you think personifies you that you think that, oh man, I would crush
07:15this one?
07:16Hunger.
07:18That's a good one.
07:19Hangry, I guess hangry.
07:21With your powers combined.
07:23Yes, really.
07:24We would rule the world.
07:25Yeah.
07:26Or at least the buffet.
07:27If intelligence were a, were an emotion, I would choose to be intelligent.
07:35Just to kind of talk like an arrogant snot.
07:38I think Bill Maher is going to get a phone call for inside of me.
07:43Well, I hope not.
07:45We're dishing right now.
07:49Yeah, we can go through.
07:50I'm too tired and I haven't been fed lunch.
07:52So I'm just going to start throwing shade.
07:55Is this a sports movie?
07:56Yes.
07:57Yep.
07:58No, no.
07:59It should be on ESPN.
08:01It's straight up is though, right?
08:03Even the angles.
08:04Wow.
08:05Following that.
08:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:06This is the first time I'm seeing it through that lens.
08:08It's like a coming of age in the sports.
08:11It's Mighty Ducks.
08:12It's Rudy.
08:13I should say Rudy.
08:13It's essentially just Mighty Ducks.
08:14It's Rudy.
08:15It's Rudy.
08:15Yeah.
08:16I heard that you had a test audience of teenage girls to see how they responded to that.
08:22Yeah.
08:23They were really an advisory group.
08:25Yeah.
08:25And I had that idea pretty early on because I want to make sure the story that we're telling
08:32is authentic and real.
08:33Yeah.
08:33And I was a 13 year old girl.
08:37It's been a while since I've been 13.
08:39I can try to remember that because it's kind of a memorable, you know, a memorable time
08:43in your life, but it's been a while and I was never a 13 year old girl.
08:46I'm too gross to go anywhere ever again.
08:50Well, that's a preview of the next 10 years.
08:53I need a whole group of people.
08:54So I pitched to them, can I have an advisory group of teenage girls?
08:58And they're like, sure.
08:59I thought I had to sell them on it, but they're like, how many do you want?
09:01I was like, oh, nine.
09:04Like nine of them.
09:05It's just arbitrary.
09:06What sounds reasonable?
09:07Yeah.
09:08Yeah.
09:08You're going to have enough of a group that you have different opinions and diversity
09:12with even within that group and even where they're from.
09:14I go, don't grab people that are just by Pixar in the Bay Area, like go out into the
09:19nation a little further.
09:21And so we had people from all over the country.
09:23First time I ever talked to you was for Richard Jewell and God, your life has changed since
09:29then.
09:29That was an Emmy ago.
09:30Now you're on my favorite sketch comedy show.
09:32Now you're in the Pixar universe.
09:34Jesus.
09:34I'm spoiled.
09:35I've been thanking that dude every day.
09:37Jesus.
09:38I've been spoiled.
09:39I got the wife and two kids.
09:41I'm sober.
09:42I get to play with the Tim Robinsons and now the Pixar's and the about to do a Marvel thing
09:49for also for Disney.
09:51So yeah, I feel very spoiled.
09:53It's been fun.
09:53I want to play a quick game before I have it.
09:55Oh, I love games.
09:56This game is called how many Emmy nominations does Amy Poehler have?
09:59Oh, I'm not going to do.
10:00Oh God, I don't know what this game either.
10:02I'm curious to see how close you're going to get.
10:04I don't know.
10:0620?
10:07I'm going to guess 24.
10:11Okay.
10:12Or $1.
10:12I'm going to guess $1.
10:15I'd like to buy a Val.
10:1826.
10:18Okay, that was close.
10:20So far you're in the lead.
10:21Congratulations.
10:22The closest.
10:23So you win the patio set.
10:24I figured I was just me going, whatever you said, I'm going to think you're being a little
10:29humble.
10:29I'm going to bump it.
10:30I bet you're close with a little hurt.
10:32Did that make you feel awkward?
10:34It was really fun.
10:35No, it's so nice.
10:36Very nice.
10:37And it actually made me feel a little old, but that's okay.
10:41That's fine.
10:41No, that's okay.
10:42That's why I'm grateful.
10:43I'd happily take some.
10:44If you wanted to just drop some off at my house, I'd happily just hold on.
10:47I'm a long time fan, so I knew there was a close.
10:51I know, I appreciate it.
10:51I did not know that number, and now I'll just get a tattoo.
10:54Yeah, it's pretty cute.
10:56Riley means us.
10:58Have I ever steered you wrong before?
10:59Many times.