Inside Out 2

According to director Kelsey Mann, welcoming new Emotions into Riley’s mind was a no-brainer, so to speak. “I’d zeroed in on the idea of Anxiety being a major character,” he says. “It’s something that really starts to appear as we become teenagers—we can all relate. I remember doing a lot of research early on about what happens in our brains at this age that triggered this idea of a wrecking ball coming through Headquarters—a bunch of workers piling in and tearing everything down. It’s a renovation—that’s kind of what it feels like to be a teenager. It’s chaotic.”