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Amy Poehler: ‘If we want young people to fix everything, why do we make fun of them?’

She’s the voice of Joy in Pixar’s Inside Out 2 – but Poehler has more complicated emotions on her mind. The SNL star talks teen angst and clueless grownups in a non-binary world

So, buckle up, Brits: Poehler is in town at the tail-end of a socio-anthropological world tour whose official remit is promoting Inside Out 2, the sequel to Pixar’s 2015 tale of personified emotions(Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, Disgust) who bicker within the brain of 11-year-old Riley. Photograph: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images for Disney/PixarBack in the early 2010s, Pixar had been struggling to find anyone who could voice Joy – so remorselessly upbeat and resourceful – without driving audiences to distraction. Once her sons were in school, and Parks and Rec stopped, Poehler moved more into movies: Baby Mama and Sisters with Fey, plus three as a director – Moxie(about a teen girl who starts a revolutionary zine), Wine Country(basically a boozy SNL ladies’ reunion), and Lucy and Desi(a documentary about Lucille Ball).

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