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Inside Out

FILM · 2015 · USA

Inside Out

Directed by
Pete Docter
Runtime
95 min
Studio
Pixar

107 archived facts 5 topics 2 sources Last reviewed Nov 2026

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

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  1. #001

    Some of the memory spheres in Riley's mind contain scenes from other Pixar films, such as Carl and Ellie's wedding in Up (2009).

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  2. #002

    The creators initially planned for Joy to team up with Fear instead of Sadness, believing it would be funnier. But when Pete Docter went for a walk on a Sunday and had negative thoughts about losing his job and his friends, they chose Sadness. This event led Joy to realize she needed to understand that it is sometimes normal for Sadness to come to the fore.

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  3. #003

    The writers considered as many as 27 emotions but decided to focus on five (Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Anger) to simplify the film. Emotions such as Surprise, Pride and Trust were excluded.

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  4. #004

    In Riley's classroom (No. A113), a map at the back of the room is marked with pins pointing to different parts of the world. They indicate the settings of all Pixar films.

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  5. #005

    When Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera pitched the film to Mindy Kaling, she burst into tears and said: "It's great that you're making a film that shows growing up is hard and that it's normal to be sad about it." According to Pete Docter, they exclaimed, "Quick! Write that down!"

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  6. #006

    Psychologists and experts collaborated with the writers to ensure Riley's mental processes were portrayed accurately. For example, short-term memories formed during the day are transferred to long-term storage during sleep, reflecting how Riley's mind works.

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  7. #007

    Pixar invited pioneering American psychologist Paul Ekman, who studies emotions and their relationship to facial expressions, to brief the crew on the nature of emotions.

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  8. #008

    Depending on the country where it was released, Riley's father either dreams about hockey or about football (soccer).

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  9. #009

    Kaitlyn Dias was 11 years old when she voiced Riley, so her voice deepened during puberty. She later had to alter her voice to make it sound younger.

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  10. #010

    One section cut from the film inside Riley's mind was a department called "Faces & Names." This department was responsible for matching the people Riley meets with their faces. Even so, the department heads dislike each other and do not speak to one another (which explains the memory lapses people experience when they cannot recall someone's name).

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  11. #011

    Unlike the other characters, Joy has no shadow because of her bright personality.

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  12. #012

    Asked during promotion why Bing Bong was kept a secret, Pete Docter said: "We wanted to make sure he was a surprise for the audience, because as a filmmaker I hate it when trailers give everything away. You say, 'Okay, I guess I don't need to see the movie.'".

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  13. #013

    For the voice of toddler Riley, the producers recycled old dialogue from Mary Gibbs, who voiced Boo in Monsters, Inc. (2001). She is even listed in the credits under additional voices. Coincidentally, toddler Riley's hair is styled the same way as Boo's.

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  14. #014

    It is the first Pixar feature film with no physical villain character. The antagonist is the idea of "things changing."

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  15. #015

    Riley's lead emotion is Joy, her mother's is Sadness (acting as a more complex sense of empathy), and her father's is Anger (acting as a more complex sense of protectiveness).

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  16. #016

    Kaitlyn Dias (Riley) was initially only a scratch voice, meaning her voice was used only to narrate the storyboard reel during development to see whether scenes worked. But the producers liked her so much that they decided to keep her as Riley's voice in the finished film.

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  17. #017

    In an interview, Kaitlyn Dias (Riley) revealed that she also cried in the recording studio while recording the scenes in which Riley cries. She imagined that her cat May had died to trigger a genuine emotional response.

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  18. #018

    The large shelves of Long Term Memory curl and bend to resemble the various wrinkles and folds seen on the cerebral cortex, the outer surface of the brain.

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  19. #019

    Over the course of the film, Joy experiences all five basic emotions: her general demeanor is joy, anger at Sadness's actions, disgust toward Riley's imagined boyfriend, fear of the clown Jangles, and finally sadness in the Memory Dump.

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  20. #020

    As Joy and Sadness pass through Imagination Land, a board game called "Find Me" featuring the animated film Finding Nemo (2003) can be seen.

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  21. #021

    Asked about being offered the role of Disgust, Mindy Kaling said, "I'm not asked to do that many things. I think I'm very specific in the way I look and the way I talk and what I'm interested in. So I agreed to write my own stuff. When I was asked to do this, the script was magnificent. I went to Pixar and I cried. I was just in a meeting with these guys and they showed me the story and I started crying."

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  22. #022

    As Riley progresses through the story and becomes more depressed and withdrawn, her clothing choices shift from bright and colorful to darker and more plain.

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  23. #023

    Many major studio animated films now undergo localization and regional adjustments. For example, in North America Riley's father is shown watching hockey at dinner, while in international versions this is soccer (football). Another recurring element is Riley's dislike of broccoli; in the Japanese version this is replaced by green peppers, which Japanese children tend to dislike more. In the Hebrew version, when Bing-Bong points to the "DANGER" sign outside Abstract Thought, he reads the letters from right to left in accordance with Hebrew writing rules.

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  24. #024

    The dinner scene in which Riley's mother tries to get her husband's attention came from Pete Docter's own experience.

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  25. #025

    Riley was originally going to have a pet and a younger sibling. Both were cut from the story to make Riley appear more vulnerable.

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  26. #026

    PIZZA PLANET TRUCK: Director Pete Docter confirmed that the truck appears in the film at least three times, but that it is hard to spot.

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  27. #027

    Commenting on the unique character design, Pete Docter said, "The characters were created with this energy because we're trying to represent what emotions would look like. They're made of moving particles. Instead of skin and solid, a giant collection of energy."

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  28. #028

    In the center of the control console, the three buttons at the top form Mickey Mouse, also known as a hidden Mickey.

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  29. #029

    When Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera presented the film to Mindy Kaling, she burst into tears: "It's great that you're making a film that shows growing up is hard and it's okay to be sad about it." Docter immediately shouted, "Quick, write that down!"

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  30. #030

    Kaitlyn Dias was 11 years old when she was cast to voice Riley, and her voice deepened as she entered puberty. In the later stages of production, she had to make adjustments to make her voice sound younger.

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  31. #031

    For the voice of toddler Riley, the producers recycled old dialogue from Mary Gibbs, who voiced Boo in Monsters, Inc. (2001). Gibbs is listed among the additional voices in the credits. Coincidentally, toddler Riley's hairstyle is also the same as Boo's.

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  32. #032

    In an interview, Kaitlyn Dias (Riley) explained that she also cried in the studio while recording the scenes where Riley cries. To summon an authentic emotional response, she imagined that her cat May had died.

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  33. #033

    Mindy Kaling said of being offered the role of Disgust: 'I don't get asked to do very much. I think I am very specific in my looks, my speech, and my interests. So I had resigned myself to writing my own work. When I was asked to do this, the script was amazing. I went to Pixar and cried. I was just in a meeting with these guys, they showed me the story, and I started sobbing.'

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  34. #034

    When asked about the genders of the emotions, Pete Docter said: "It was intuitive. Anger felt very masculine, I don't know why; Sadness felt a little more feminine, and Mindy Kaling's Disgust was right... In Mom and Dad, we made them all masculine or feminine for a quick read because you need to understand where you are, it's a little artificial but hopefully people won't be bothered!"

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  35. #035

    According to director Pete Docter, the design of the imaginary boyfriend in Riley's mind (aside from his Canadian origins) was inspired by the British boy band One Direction, because he admits that his daughter Elie (the person Riley was modeled on) was a fan of theirs.

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  36. #036

    Riley's parents' first names are never mentioned, and in the credits the characters are listed only as "Mom" and "Dad." According to the book "Inside Out: The Essential Guide," their names are Jill and Bill Andersen. However, Riley's mother's name appears as "K. Ann Andersen" on her credit card.

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  37. #037

    Riley's birthday is January 22; since her username in the video chat program she uses to talk to Meg is "Riley0122," this means January 22. Additionally, Riley shares the same birthday as director Pete Docter's daughter, Elie Docter.

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  38. #038

    Lewis Black was the studio's first and only choice to play Anger.

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  39. #039

    Anger always pounds the console with his fist before interacting with it.

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  40. #040

    Producer Jonas Rivera cast Phyllis Smith as Sadness after seeing her performance in Bad Teacher (2011).

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  41. #041

    The film's director, Pete Docter, voiced Riley's Dad's Anger.

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  42. #042

    Bill Hader was cast to voice Fear; he felt he "snuck" into the role as a "huge fan" of Pixar's filmography. Hader toured the studio for a week and also "helped" in the story room. At the end of his stay, he was invited to play Fear, but was also asked to contact Saturday Night Live (1975) veteran Amy Poehler; the team saw Poehler as perfect for the character of Joy. "They said, 'Will you call Amy? We don't want to call her and have her think we're weird,'" he recalled. He called Poehler and told her the story, noting that her role would be the driving force of the film.

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  43. #043

    This is the second time Pixar legend John Ratzenberger has voiced a Construction Worker. The first was in Up (2009). While the Construction Foreman Tom in Up appears only at the beginning of the film, his character Fritz in Inside Out appears only at the end of the film.

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  44. #044

    Bill Hader is not only the actor who voices Fear, he is also the only one among the five emotions to have previously appeared in a Pixar production: he had played a referee and a slug in Monsters University (2013).

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  45. #045

    The emotions of the different animals in the credits wear the same clothing according to their species: Sadness wears glasses, Disgust a purple scarf, Anger a red tie, and Fear a bow tie.

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  46. #046

    Sadness never interacts with the other emotions (Disgust, Anger, Fear); she only connects with Joy and Bing Bong. Despite this, Fear helps Joy and Sadness return to Headquarters.

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  47. #047

    Lewis Black and Bill Hader did not meet each other until the film's premiere.

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  48. #048

    Every emotion except Anger has matching eye and hair color (Anger has no hair); for everyone except Joy, the skin color matches the eye/hair color.

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  49. #049

    Riley, Joy, Sadness and Fear appear to suffer from coulrophobia (fear of clowns); this becomes evident in the scenes with Jangles.

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  50. #050

    It is not specified who the voice singing the Triple-Dent Gum commercial jingle in the credits belongs to.

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  51. #051

    In the German version, Anger is voiced by Hans-Joachim Heist. On the satirical program heute-show (2009), Heist plays a character based on Lewis Black – Black voices Anger in the original English version.

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  52. #052

    The three female emotions in Dad's mind (Joy, Sadness, Disgust) have thick mustaches like their male counterparts.

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  53. #053

    Emma Stone was considered for the character of Sadness.

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  54. #054

    The idea for Fear to wear a bow tie came from Bill Hader.

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  55. #055

    Writer Josh Cooley voiced Jangles the Clown; this was his second Pixar film after the Dog Omega in Up (2009).

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  56. #056

    Robin Williams, James Woods, Kurt Russell, Billy Crystal, Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey were considered for Bing Bong.

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  57. #057

    Disgust resembles an older version of Taffyta Muttonfudge from Wreck-It Ralph (2012); both characters were voiced by Mindy Kaling.

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  58. #058

    In the Canadian French version, director Xavier Dolan voices Fear.

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  59. #059

    In the German dub, two guards are voiced by Dietmar Bär and Klaus J. Behrendt, detective partners from the long-running crime series "Tatort".

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  60. #060

    Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones had appeared together on Parks and Recreation (2009).

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  61. #061

    Emma Stone, Zooey Deschanel, Sandra Bullock, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon and Teri Hatcher were named as possibilities to voice Sadness.

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  62. #062

    In the film, everyone's emotions match their own gender: women in the mother's head, men in the father's; Riley, however, has both female and male emotions.

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  63. #063

    Amy Poehler (Joy) and Bill Hader (Fear) had come together under the umbrella of Saturday Night Live (1975).

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  64. #064

    Chris Pratt was considered to voice Fear; he starred in Jurassic World (2015), which was released on the same day.

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  65. #065

    Bill Hader was originally going to appear in The Good Dinosaur (2015), but turned to this film after a production change.

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  66. #066

    Halle Berry was among those named to voice Disgust.

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  67. #067

    This is the second animated film in which Bill Hader and Amy Poehler appeared together; in the first, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil (2011), they voiced Hansel and Gretel.

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  68. #068

    Bryan Cranston and Joe Pesci were considered to voice Anger.

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  69. #069

    Diane Lane (Mother) and Kyle MacLachlan (Father) had appeared in Superman productions: Lane was Martha Kent in Man of Steel (2013), and MacLachlan was Superman in Justice League: The New Frontier (2008).

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  70. #070

    Kyle MacLachlan appears in this film with Rashida Jones; he had previously worked with her mother, Peggy Lipton, on Twin Peaks (1990).

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  71. #071

    Jennifer Tilly was considered for Disgust; 14 years earlier she had voiced Celia in Monsters, Inc. (2001).

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  72. #072

    Amy Poehler and Mindy Kaling both wrote for a "Deedle-Dee" show: Kaling for The Office (2005), Poehler for Parks and Recreation (2009).

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  73. #073

    Mary Gibbs's second Pixar film after Monsters, Inc. (2001) (even if only through archival audio).

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  74. #074

    In the European Spanish version, Bing Bong is voiced by Carlos Ysbert; he has been Homer Simpson in the same version of The Simpsons (1989) since season 12.

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  75. #075

    Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling's second film together after Unaccompanied Minors (2006).

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  76. #076

    Adam Devine was initially considered for the character of Fear.

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  77. #077

    Amy Poehler genuinely cried during the scene in which Joy looks at Riley's forgotten memories.

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  78. #078

    Amy Poehler (Joy) and Phyllis Smith (Sadness) had previously appeared together in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011).

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  79. #079

    This was the last production directed by Pete Docter that featured a character voiced by John Cygan.

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  80. #080

    The Subconscious Guard Dave and the Forgetter Bobby, whom Joy and Sadness encounter, share the same voice actors as Frank Oz in Monsters, Inc. and Bobby Moynihan in Monsters University, respectively.

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  81. #081

    In the Brazilian version, the main characters were voiced by Miá Mello (Joy), Katiuscia Canoro (Sadness), Dani Calabresa (Disgust), Otaviano Costa (Fear) and Leo Jaime (Anger).

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  82. #082

    John Cygan, Richard Kind and Bill Hader had also worked on previous Pixar films; they appeared together in Cars, Toy Story 3 and Monsters University.

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  83. #083

    Inside Out is the only Pixar film directed by Pete Docter that does not feature an actor born on 13 December; Monsters, Inc. had Steve Buscemi (13 December 1957), Up had Christopher Plummer (13 December 1929) and Soul had Jamie Foxx (13 December 1967).

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  84. #084

    Tony Hale and Jason Bateman were also considered for Fear.

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  85. #085

    Liza Lapira and Kat Dennings were also candidates for the character Disgust.

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  86. #086

    Nana Spier (the German voice of Joy) has done the German dubbing for actors such as Sarah Michelle Gellar, Claire Danes and Drew Barrymore.

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  87. #087

    Bettina Zimmermann voiced Sally in the German version of Cars; the co-producer of both Inside Out and Cars was John Lasseter.

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  88. #088

    Riley's parents were voiced in the German dubbing by Bettina Zimmermann and Kai Wiesinger; the pair are also a couple in real life.

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  89. #089

    Kai Wiesinger and Bettina Zimmermann appeared in the web series 'Der Lack Ist Ab' between 2015 and 2018.

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  90. #090

    In the German version, Anger was voiced by Hans-Joachim Heist (Gernot Hassknecht on heute-show) and Fear by Michael Haubold (Olaf Schubert); supporting roles featured Matthias Roll and Philipp Laude from the former comedy trio Y-Titty.

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  91. #091

    Riley is shown to be left-handed.

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Production Story (1)

  1. #092

    Kaitlyn Dias (Riley) was actually only a scratch voice; her voice was used to narrate the storyboard animatic during development to see whether scenes worked. But the producers liked her so much that they decided to keep her as Riley's voice in the finished film.

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Characters & Cast (8)

  1. #093

    Director Pete Docter said that Richard Kind, the voice actor for Bing Bong, genuinely cried while recording the line "Take her to the Moon for me, okay?" Kind confirmed this; it was reported that the crew and cast also cried while recording that scene.

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  2. #094

    While the genders of the other emotions were decided immediately, Disgust was depicted as a male character in the early concept drawings. It was only decided that Disgust would be female when Mindy Kaling was cast for the role.

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  3. #095

    Richard Kind's fifth Pixar film; the previous ones were A Bug's Life (1998), Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Cars 2 (2011). In this film, his character has a major role rather than being limited to a few scenes and lines.

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  4. #096

    Mandy Moore, Isla Fisher, Joan Cusack, Kristen Bell, Reese Witherspoon, Kristin Chenoweth, Tina Fey and Lisa Kudrow were considered for the role of Joy.

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  5. #097

    Anna Kendrick was considered for the role of Disgust.

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  6. #098

    Michael Cera was an option for the role of Fear.

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  7. #099

    Lauren Graham was considered for the role of Riley's mother.

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  8. #100

    Nana Spier won the Radio Play Award in 2005/2007 for her lead voice performance in 'Faith – The van Helsing Chronicles'.

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Easter Eggs & References (4)

  1. #101

    In Dream Productions there is a scene in which a camera filter called the "reality distortion filter" is added. This is a direct nod to former Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, who convinced people of the feasibility of things they thought impossible: they named it Steve's "reality distortion field."

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  2. #102

    The producers were so impressed by Lewis Black's performance as Anger in the film that they decided to incorporate elements from his stand-up routines into the film. For example, Anger is often seen reading a newspaper; this is a nod to his stand-up, where he looks at the newspaper and reacts to the news with displeasure. Anger's outfit, consisting of a red tie and shirt, refers to his frequent wearing of a red tie and a black sport coat with a shirt in his stand-up.

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  3. #103

    Rashida Jones was initially considered to voice Sadness or Disgust before her cameo in the credits.

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  4. #104

    Phyllis Smith (Sadness), Mindy Kaling (Disgust), Bill Hader (Fear) and Rashida Jones (Cool Girl's Emotions) had previously appeared together in The Office (2005). Smith, Kaling and Jones had recurring roles on the series, while Hader made a cameo in the final episode.

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Deeper Meaning (3)

  1. #105

    According to the director Pete Docter, each emotion is symbolized by a specific shape: Joy is represented by a star, Sadness by a teardrop, Anger by a fire brick, Fear by a raw nerve, and Disgust by broccoli. It was also noted that he has an affinity for broccoli.

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  2. #106

    Pete Docter's inspiration for this film came from watching the turbulent period of his daughter growing up.

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  3. #107

    According to Lewis Black (Anger), when Pixar presented the film to him, he received a box of previous Pixar films and a letter implying, "... I may not know who Pixar is. Which meant either they were crazy or they thought I was a hermit."

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