Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 is coming to theaters with brand new emotions, including the much-anticipated Anxiety voiced by Maya Hawke.
Gearing up for a summer release in the highly anticipated sequel to Disney Pixar’s award-winning animated film Inside Out, a heartfelt depiction of a young girl’s emotions as she navigates the complexities of life. Further exploring the various new emotions in part two, we will now see Riley in her teenage years, with new emotions added to the colorful bunch residing in her mind. Creators have recently revealed an exciting new image, straight from the emotions headquarters, where Anxiety and Envy are spotted hanging out with the OG emotions bunch, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear.
Maya Hawke, who will be voicing Anxiety, shared how she cried during the audition. “There’s something about this story and these characters that I think really brings fundamental truths about our experience to the surface,” she explains. “It’s so relatable, so emotional, so pure, that whether you want to or not, you use what you have and what you’ve been through.”
She further revealed that she was pitched the character with an intriguing character image “and I was like, ‘YES, that’s ME! That’s the Velma Dinkley [of Scooby-Doo fame] part I’ve always dreamed of, with the orange and the skirt and stripes and the teeth!” And by the end of the audition, she really wanted to play the part, “It was an extremely desperate thing to do, but I think what people are looking for in audition rooms is passion. That it means something to them personally, and they’ll put pieces of themselves into it,” Hawke says.
Joining Maya Hawke for the sequel is Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger, Tony Hale as Fear, and Liza Lapira as Disgust. Directed by Kelsey Mann and produced by Mark Nielsen, Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 releases exclusively in theaters on June 14, 2024.