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Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke and ‘Inside Out 2′ Filmmakers Talk Pulling Off the Climatic Anxiety Attack Sequence Which Required ’25 Meetings’ to Plan For


"Inside Out 2" follows a now 13-year-old Riley who must grapple with a new set of emotions, the most controlling being Anxiety, voiced by Maya Hawke.

“Inside Out 2” director Kelsey Mann and producer Mark Nielsen held “a good 25 meetings” in preparation for the film’s climactic scene — when Riley, the movie’s teenage protagonist, suffers an anxiety attack. But these weren’t any average production discussions, they were “the gatherings of the mind council,” which summoned all the department heads together to strategize the execution of the scene. With a hard deadline on the horizon, the Pixar team needed to hustle up if they wanted to finish on time to make its June 2024 release date.

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