Riley’s emotional team is rounded out by Fear (Bill Hader), who keeps her out of danger; Anger (Lewis Black), who ensures life’s imperfections turn out fair for her; Disgust (Mindy Kaling), whose high-minded opinions keep her from being a social outcast; and Sadness (Phyllis Smith), who has a hard time understanding her role in Riley’s life and just wants to cry it out. And while that seems like an oversimplification of our emotions, it worked pretty well. But the movie began with quite a few extra emotions running around in Riley’s brain-26 of them, in fact. “We tried that for a while, but I was wrong”.
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“When the film is done, you look at the characters and go, “Of course, these are the emotions”, the director told USA Today.
You can still meet the other contenders for Riley’s emotions. Or maybe Love could pop up in a sequel where Riley falls in love (which would be different from the Riley’s First Date short since she would likely be older and dealing with hormones and puberty). The one major difference you’ll notice between this scene and the final film is that the emotions have actual human names, like Freddy for Fear and Ira for Anger. Rob Lowe’s performance as Chris Traeger in Parks and Recreation immediately comes to mind as the flawless personality for Pride.
We were very opposed to calling them by their emotion. “My thought was to be clever about it”, the director explained. But we don’t know if a sequel to Inside Out is in the cards at this point, so we’ll see what happens.
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Several of the missing emotions will be featured in the special edition of Inside Out, which releases tomorrow, November 2, for Blu-ray/DVD.
