Summary
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Inside Out 2
originally included the emotion of Shame, which was ultimately replaced by just Anxiety. - The film was meant to feature nine new emotions, including Guilt, Jealousy, Awe, Nostalgia, and Schadenfreude.
- Nostalgia did make a brief appearance, but the team decided some new emotions were not necessary to the story.
A deleted scene from Inside Out 2 reveals one of the movie’s cut emotions for Riley. Continuing the story of the protagonist as she goes through new emotions associated with puberty, Inside Out 2 was released on June 14 of this year. Since its release, Inside Out 2 has done well among both critics and audiences. It has set the record as the highest-grossing animated feature film of all time, passing other hits such as The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Incredibles 2. At the time of writing, Inside Out 2 has grossed over $1.6 billion.
As per Entertainment Weekly, an exclusive deleted scene has revealed one of Riley’s emotions that did not make the cut for the film. The emotion in question is Shame. In the sequence, Riley goes to a party with her newly made hockey camp friends. From there, Shame takes over during a game of Never Have I Ever. In conjunction with the scene, director Kelsey Mann spoke about it, explaining that it acted as the “climax” of the film. In an alternate world, Inside Out 2 would have included “Anxiety and Shame together” as “Riley’s shame [gets] out of control.” Check out the full quote from Mann below:
I wanted to explore that feeling that you’re not good enough, that feeling that you’re really hard on yourself. It really comes out in this scene. This was a scene that’s near the end of the film. It’s the climax.
In this version, you’ll see Anxiety and Shame together. They’re kind of a pair in this one. And we got drawn into this idea of Riley’s shame getting out of control, causing a storm. There is an element here that is still in the final film, but rather than a shame spiral, we ended up making it really about Anxiety. It just simplified the film and put the focus on one character — the character of Anxiety, versus having this split focus between Anxiety and Shame.
What Other Emotions Were Cut From Inside Out 2?
Inside Out 2 Could Have Included Many Emotions
As Mann outlines, Inside Out 2 ended up transforming its shame-filled climax into an Anxiety-riddled panic attack. Mann is right that this move “simplified the film,” as taking out Shame allowed for Anxiety to become the dominant new emotion in Inside Out 2. Mimicking Anxiety’s frenetic nature, much of Inside Out 2 moves at a breakneck pace. Adding Shame to this, working in tandem with Anxiety, could have risked dampening the film’s emotional impact, as it could have become more overwhelming than realistic.
Shame was far from the only emotion cut in Inside Out 2. Before the release of the film, Mann and his team revealed that Inside Out 2 was initially supposed to have nine new emotions. Concept art revealed one of those emotions to be Guilt, which would have been symbolized by “a giant luggage cart like at a hotel.” Accompanying Guilt and Shame would have been Jealousy, Awe, Nostalgia, and Schadenfreude. These canceled emotions were eventually deemed too much for one sequel to include.
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Inside Out 2 introduces new, more complex emotions to Riley’s mind, but the director decided to remove one that would have made the movie too dark.
Though the Inside Out 2 team did not go with all of these new emotions, the deleted scene is further evidence that some of the new figures got pretty far along in the process before being cut. Nostalgia even made the final cut of Inside Out 2, appearing briefly for a joking bit in which she reflects on something that happened just moments before. It sounds like the Inside Out 2 team was highly selective and intentional in choosing what emotions would make the final cut, but nonetheless, moments like this make one wonder what Inside Out 2 would have looked like should more emotions have been included.
Source: EW
Inside Out 2
Inside Out 2 is the sequel to the 2015 original film, which starred a young girl named Riley with a head full of emotions. – literally. With Amy Pohler as Joy, Bill Hader as fear, Mindy Kaling as Disgust, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, and Lewis Black as Anger, the all-star cast brought to life the emotions that adolescents face as they grow, change, and adapt to new situations. This sequel, currently in development, will bring Amy Pohler back as Joy, with Riley, now a teenager.
- Director
- Kelsey Mann
- Release Date
- June 14, 2024
- Writers
- Meg LeFauve , Dave Holstein , Kelsey Mann
- Runtime
- 96 Minutes