Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke and ‘Inside Out 2′ Filmmakers Talk Pulling Off the Climatic Anxiety Attack Sequence Which Required ’25 Meetings’ to Plan For
variety.comJack Dunn SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Inside Out 2” now playing in theaters. “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. “Simulation, effects, lighting and animation all together like, “‘How are we going to do this?'” Neilsen tells Variety. “We had a gong our visual effects supervisor [Sudeep Rangaswamy] would ring at the beginning and end of every meeting,” Mann adds. “It was a collection of all the heads of the different departments to figure out the difficult things.” “Inside Out 2” follows a now 13-year-old Riley who must grapple with a new set of overbearing emotions while staying at a sleepaway hockey camp — with the most controlling emotion of all being Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke).
In the film’s third act, Riley’s nerves bubble over when her coach banishes her to the penalty box during her final scrimmage.
Inside her head, a tornado of anxiety forms around the central controls, while in the real world, Riley breaks down into a panic.
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