FILM · 2015 · USA
Inside Out
- Directed by
- Pete Docter
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Studio
- Pixar
44 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 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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Inside Out: 14 Facts About the Characters and Cast
- #015
Designer Albert Lozano envisioned Joy as tomboyish and mischievous.
- #016
Amy Poehler contributed to writing Joy, showing a wide range of happiness after difficulties.
- #017
With LeFauve's assistance, the team conceived Joy as vulnerable and intangible, describing her as "unapologetically positive".
- #020
Richard Kind described his Inside Out character as "the fading of childhood" once the film's development had progressed.
- #025
Producer Jonas Rivera credited Amy Poehler with developing aspects of Joy's nature in Inside Out.
- #033
Inside Out's principal characters were cast in August 2013.
- #035
Casting for Inside Out prioritized actors whose personas matched those of the characters they voiced.
- #037
Phyllis Smith was the first of the emotion characters in Inside Out to be cast, while Amy Poehler was the last.
- #039
Phyllis Smith was initially worried about voicing a role in an animated film, and she recognized her natural voice after her first recording session.
- #040
After Phyllis Smith traveled to Pixar's headquarters in Emeryville, California, Rivera cast her as Sadness upon watching a lunch scene from Bad Teacher (2011), telling Docter he believed they had found the character.
- #041
Richard Kind was Pete Docter's ideal pick to voice Bing Bong in Inside Out.
- #042
For Bing Bong, Richard Kind aimed to capture a similar sense of innocence to what he had brought to his earlier Pixar roles.
- #043
Pete Docter described Bing Bong as something that grew out of the characterization of Joy.
- #044
Richard Kind based Bing Bong's personality and look on Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante and John Candy, drawing especially on Candy's work in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987).
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