Exploring Toy Story's Forky Mind with Tony Hale

One of the most chaotic times in the transition from child to adult is those years of puberty. Emotions run high, and body odor, pimples, and hair appear everywhere. It's a messy time. This is the world that we're dropped into in Inside Out 2, which follows up on Riley's story a few years after the first Inside Out movie. Instead of dealing with moving, the sequel focuses on an important weekend in Riley's young life: a weekend away at a hockey camp. Right on the cusp of starting high school and entering into a new phase of her life, a plethora of new emotions take hold of her brain. Inside Out focused on the five core emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. The sequel film introduces four new and more complicated emotions: Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment. When the new emotions take the place of the old ones — quite literally bottling them up and stowing them away — Riley's life takes a sharp turn. We spoke with Tony Hale and Liza Lapira about the sequel. Hale and Lapira play Fear and Disgust, respectively. We discussed what parts of the sequel spoke to them the most, especially in reminding them of their teenage years. We also discussed how the film changed their approach to emotions and what emotion rules their console the most. Finally, Hale and Lapira discussed which other character of theirs they'd like to see inside the mind of, with Hale wanting to look into Forky from Toy Story 4's mind.