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Amy Poehler reacts to ‘Inside Out 2’ being Beyoncé’s top 2024 film

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September 27, 2024

Amy Poehler reacts to 'Inside Out 2' being Beyoncé's top 2024 film

Amy Poehler can’t include her feelings relating to Beyoncé.

Like most of us, the Emmy Award-winning actress is obsessive about the celebrity’s music, in addition to her comedic tour de drive within the 2002 Austin Powers movie “Goldmember.” So naturally, Poehler is verklempt when she learns that Beyoncé lately referred to as “Inside Out 2” the very best film she has seen this 12 months in a uncommon interview with GQ.

“Nicely, she’s a Virgo, so she is aware of what she’s speaking about,” quips Poehler, who voices Pleasure in Disney/Pixar’s animated hit. “Wow! I’m type of overwhelmed that Beyoncé appreciated it – I’m going to wish a minute. (Laughs.) Which means quite a bit. She’s simply such a GOAT; she’s unimaginable at completely the whole lot she does.”

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“Inside Out 2” is now streaming on Disney+, and obtainable to buy on digital platforms corresponding to Apple TV and Prime Video. The sequel earned roughly $1.7 billion worldwide, changing into the highest-grossing animated film of all time and the eighth-biggest movie ever (not adjusted for inflation).

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Poehler chalks up a lot of the sequel’s success to timing. Like the primary film, “Inside Out 2” is ready contained in the thoughts of a lady named Riley (Kensington Tallman), solely this time, she’s coping with new teenage feelings like Anxiousness (Maya Hawke). Within the near-decade for the reason that final movie, well-liked tradition has helped normalize discussions round psychological well being, notably amongst Gen Z.

“Individuals have been actually prepared to speak about anxiousness and the way it bumps up towards pleasure, and what’s poisonous positivity,” Poehler says. “Individuals have simply spent the previous 10 years actually getting into and speaking about their emotions, so it simply felt like everybody was prepared to fulfill it the place it was.”

And for audiences like Beyoncé, a mom of three, “there’s lots of themes in there about being a mother or father,” Poehler says. “How do you attempt to let the individuals that you simply love expertise these items and never attempt to really feel it for them?”

Within the three months since “Inside Out 2” hit theaters, Poehler has loved seeing how viewers have embraced Pouchy (James Austin Johnson), a speaking fanny pack whom Pleasure encounters in Riley’s thoughts. (She admits there’s one thing a bit freaky in regards to the character: “He doesn’t thoughts opening up his pouch, let’s simply say that.”) The film additionally teases Riley’s Deep Darkish Secret (Steve Purcell), though to some followers’ disappointment, it’s revealed to be pretty innocuous within the post-credits scene. (The filmmakers “didn’t wish to stress children out” by leaving the key unaddressed, Poehler explains.)

The film was a spotlight of “the very best summer time ever” for Poehler, who turned 53 final week. The beloved “Saturday Night time Reside” veteran rang in her birthday on the red-carpet premiere of Marvel sequence “Agatha All Alongside,” the place she celebrated along with her former “Parks and Recreation” co-stars Aubrey Plaza, Kathryn Hahn and Adam Scott.

“I’ve beloved being in my 50s,” Poehler says. “I’ve had a extremely great 12 months stuffed with lots of love, and I’m grateful for that. I’m attempting to try the stuff I’ve, and never focus an excessive amount of on what I don’t.”

Waiting for awards season, “I actually hope, to be very trustworthy, that folks take into account ‘Inside Out 2’ for an Academy Award for greatest movie,” she says. The final time an animated film obtained a greatest image Oscar nomination was in 2011, with Disney/Pixar’s “Toy Story 3.”

She insists that there have been no discussions but about an “Inside Out 3,” however “I’m all the time prepared for extra. I play Pleasure, so I’m all the time like: ‘Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!’ ”

And who is aware of? Possibly Beyoncé might voice a brand new emotion within the third film.