“My name is Kelsey Mann and I am the director of 'Inside Out 2.' Here in this scene we see Joy and the original emotions arrive at this new space that is within Riley's imagination. And it is an area that is being dominated by anxiety. “She's working with all these mental workers to come up with worst-case scenarios of what could happen the next day to Riley and how she could ruin everything.” “Riley misses an open goal. The coach writes about it in her notebook. Yes, more like that.” “Oh, no. They're using Riley's imagination against her.” “And Joy wants to stop that at all costs. I always imagined this would be a movie about anxiety taking control and I was reflecting on my own life and how my anxiety It does that to me. And the minute my head hits the pillow, I start thinking about the next day, thinking and worrying about what could go wrong and how I can avoid those things. And I thought this might be something with. which I think a lot of people could relate to.” “Why are you drawing a hippo?” “I'm not. I am drawing. “Riley.” “Joy, you forgot her ponytail.” “Oh, I love her ponytail. Yeah.” “Riley scores and everyone hugs her? 81? That doesn't help.” “Visually, with this space, I always imagined it as a bunch of workers in cubicles. But we thought, well, this place is in Imagination Land. ” How do we make it a little more fun? And so it was: Jason Deamer is our production designer and Josh West is our set art director. They came up with this really fun idea of using giant playing cards as “Who” cubicle walls. “Did you send that projection to Riley?” “Why would she know that?” “What's going on? Who sends all this positive? Joy, I know you’re there.” “And then we thought, wait a minute, what if the workers are actually cheering? What happens if they draw on animation desks? “Don't listen to anxiety. “He’s using these horrible projections to change Riley.” “A lot of this is based on a group of downtrodden workers eventually turning on their employer and their boss. And we were definitely inspired by some scenes. There were three in particular that I would refer to: 'Field of Dreams', where she is standing talking about book burning. Then there's 'Jerry Maguire', where she said she, let's all go. Join me. I'll leave it and come with me. And then the really iconic one was 'Norma Rae,' where she stands up and unionizes and makes everyone turn off their machines.” “Yeah, here we go.” “What if Riley is so bad that she has to quit hockey forever?” “What if Riley does so well that the coach cries, the Olympics are called, and she leads a tired nation to victory?” “Uh, Joy, reality exists too.” “And also 'Red'. Anger's speech here was 100 percent influenced by 'Network.'” “Nightmares. But you don't have to put up with it anymore.” “And what better person than Lewis Black to give a speech like that.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Oh, my projections!” “Pillow fight!” “Riley!” “You have to be prepared.”
