Pete Docter, director of the original Inside Out and Pixar’s chief creative officer since replacing John Lasseter in 2018, spurred social media furor over a Bloomberg interview in late May. The story noted that Pixar’s setbacks led Docter to encourage the studio’s directors to move away from autobiographically inspired storytelling in favor of making the “most relatable films” possible, which some perceived as shifting away from underrepresented characters and voices.

The interview did not sit well with Sarah Ligatich, a former assistant editor at Pixar who worked on Elemental and forthcoming series Win or Lose before losing her job in the May reductions. She noted those comments felt like an insult to “a lot of us who have spent years of our lives making content that we had hoped would matter.”

Inside Out 2 writer Dave Holstein sees his film as delivering the blend of heart and humor that made early Pixar films like Toy Story so successful. “Pete took a broad look at the films on the slate and what had been successful in the past,” Holstein says. “Luckily, we were sort of midstream on Inside Out 2 when these mandates were changing, and there’s a very universal quality to the movie from the jump.”

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