Brooke Bunny
Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan are lending their lungs to Disney-Pixar’s “Inside Out”, according to USA Today.
The “Untraceable” and “Twin Peaks” stars play the main character’s parents.
Inside Out focuses on 11-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) and the emotions operating in Headquarters, located inside her head: Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader), Sadness (Phyllis Smith) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling).
Writer-director Pete Docter says the parents play a crucial role since Riley is seen through their eyes.
“I started out doing a film about growing up, but it turned out it’s a film about me watching my kids grow up,” says Docter, 46, and the father of an 18-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter. “These parents are realizing that their kid is changing. That’s difficult. But it is a part of life.”
Life for Riley is made all the more difficult since Dad has moved the family from the Midwest to work on a start-up company in San Francisco. Meanwhile, upbeat and hip Mom is the emotional center of the family.
“These guys are the pillars on both sides,” says Docter. “They are pivotal parts, knowing how joyful this kid Riley used to be and the young woman she’s changing into.”
So while Riley’s mind is full of out-there comedic characters (particularly Joy), the parents are more “rooted in reality and very truthful,” says Docter. “Both of those actors do that very well.”
Inside Out takes viewers inside the mind of all three human characters. Dad’s emotions have Headquarters like a Norad missile defense site and have mustaches. Very male. Meanwhile, Mom’s Headquarters features emotions wearing her red glasses and who engage in civil discussion à la The View.
“There’s our world which we’re conscientious of and looking at. So we’re driving, eating dinner, whatever. And inside our head there’s this whole rich internal dialogue and world no one else knows about,” says Docter. “This film gets you inside each character’s heads.”
The trailer for “Inside Out” debuts on Wednesday.
