Pixar’s ‘Inside Out 2’ Peers into the Teen Brain

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the Oscar-winning animated movie “Inside Out,” emotions like joy, anger and sadness populate the brain of 11-year-old Riley, the film’s heroine. In the sequel, “Inside Out 2,” Riley is now a teen, and the emotions running headquarters have to make room for new feelings…. Hello, anxiety! Pixar’s Pete Docter joins us to talk about the movie. Guests: Pete Docter, Chief Creative Officer, Pixar - He directed "Inside Out," which won the 2016 Oscar for Best Animated Feature. He also directed "Monsters, Inc." and Oscar winners "Soul" and Up." He was the third animator to be brought on board at Pixar. Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley - He served as a consultant on the Pixar film, "Inside Out 2". Keltner is the author of "Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life." Riya Richardson, member of "Riley's Crew," the group of teen girls who served as consultants to the movie "Inside Out 2" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. In the Oscar-winning animated movie Inside Out, emotions like joy, anger, and sadness populated
1:06.6	the brain of Riley, the film's young heroine.
1:10.1	In the sequel, Inside Out 2, Riley is now a teen.
1:13.6	And the emotions running headquarters have to make room for new feelings. Hello, anxiety.
1:18.6	Oh, hi, embarrassment. So sorry to meet you, on we.
1:22.6	Pixar's chief creative officer Pete Doctor joins us to talk about the movie, the emergent emotions of teenagers, and how to make it just a little easier to talk with your kids about what we and our children are experiencing inside. That's all coming up next, right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:49.0	I'm always delighted to remember that Pixar Studios is a local business, located right there
1:55.0	by Arismendi in Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe.
1:58.5	And so I took particular pride in seeing Inside Out to at the home team
2:02.9	AMC theater in Emoryville. Took both my kids, neither of whom is quite a teen just yet, but they do
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