Amy Poehler was a mix of “anxiety and joy” as a teenager. The 52-year-old actress spoke about her past ups and downs to promote her role as the Joy emotion in ‘Inside Out 2’, which portrays 13-year-old Riley as she battles her cocktail of jumbled inner feelings. Amy told People about how she can relate to the animated girl, voiced by 15-year-old Kensington Tallman: “I definitely was a mix of anxiety and joy for sure, wrapped up in a Boston accent.
“And (I had) lots of shoulder pads and funky earrings.” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “I guess I felt a lot of what Riley felt in that, your head is full, very noisy.
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you go from being not very self-conscious to suddenly really caring about what other people think really fast.” Amy added about what crowd she hung about with as a child: “I was kind of a floater.” ‘Inside Out 2’ sees Riley go through puberty as she gets ready to enter high school.
Complicated new feelings including Anxiety (played by Maya Hawke) and Envy (Ayo Edebiri) join existing emotions including Amy’s Joy, Sadness (Phyllis Smith) and Anger (Lewis Black.) Amy recalled about her head also being filled with different emotions aged 13: “(They’re about) what kind of friend do you want to be? What kind of person do you want to be? What do you care about? “I think that is a completely unive.
