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This is Lindsay Smith-Rodgers, and today, a movie review.

The Pixar movie Inside Out 2 recently became the highest grossing animated film of all time.

The sequel brings us back into the mind of Riley, who's now entering puberty and facing new

emotions like anxiety and envy.

Stephanie Desmond talks to Johns Hopkins psychologist Laura Murray about what the movie gets right about this period of emotional development and how it normalizes the kind of internal conflict we all feel sometimes.

Just a note that you don't have to have seen the film to enjoy this conversation and there are no spoilers.

Let's listen.

Laura Murray, thanks so much for joining me.

Thank you for having me again, Stephanie.

So today I want us to play movie critic, all right? So you're a psychologist and we both

just seen Inside Out 2, which, by the way, is the highest grossing animated film in history after

just like less than two months out.

So clearly a lot of people have seen it.

So I wanted to get your take on what we see in this movie.

And I'll just give a little summary, which is, you know, when we last left Riley, she was

younger and she was ruled by emotions like joy and sadness and anger.

And it was a simple life and she was feeling really good about herself.

And we come into this movie where she's about to go to high school and we get introduced to a whole new set of characters, including anxiety.

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