Riley’s emotions are about to get more complicated in Inside Out 2. A new trailer for the upcoming Pixar animated sequel has unveiled a new emotion: the bedraggled-looking Anxiety voiced by Maya Hawke.
“Anxiety, voiced by Maya Hawke, might be new to the crew, but she’s not really the type to take a back seat,” said director Kelsey Mann. “That makes a lot of sense if you think about it in terms of what goes on inside all our minds.”
The new trailer takes us back inside Riley’s mind as she becomes a teenager, and when a demolition crew shows up at headquarters, it looks as though things are about to change in a big way.
Here’s our first synopsis for Inside Out 2: “Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.”
Alongside the new trailer, a new Inside Out 2 poster also debuted:
Amy Poehler is back as Joy, alongside other returning cast members Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger, and Tony Hale as Fear. Meanwhile, Hawke is joined by newcomer Liza Lapira who takes the role of Disgust following Mindy Kaling in the original movie. The sequel is directed by Kelsey Mann and produced by Mark Nielsen. Inside Out 2 will debut in theaters summer 2024.
IGN’s Inside Out review gave it 9.5/10 and said: “Pixar has never been so formally and visually inventive and rarely so funny as they are here. Perhaps lacking the sledgehammer tear duct attack of Up, it’s also an exceptionally poignant and thoughtful look at developing and understanding our feelings. It’s also simply enormous fun. Consider next year’s Animated Feature Oscar race over and Pixar firmly back on track.”
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Ryan Leston is an entertainment journalist and film critic for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
