Meg LeFauve: Pixar’s Inside Out, Parenting “Lava,” & Children’s Emotions

06/29/23 • 39 min

In this episode of Katie’s Crib, Katie talks to Meg LeFauve, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter for the Pixar film Inside Out. Meg explains the process that came along with writing the film, and what she hopes the movie (and its successor) would teach about expressing emotions.

Meg digs into how she first got involved in the IO project, and how the character Sadness became the essential emotion of focus in the movie. The “The Screenwriting Life” podcast host also reflects on how she witnessed children and adult audience members react to the flick. Finally, Meg recalls how the movie influenced her own parenting styles.

Also, how did Meg’s own children respond to Inside Out, knowing that their mom wrote the movie? Push play for the answer!

Executive Producers: Sandie Bailey, Alex Alcheh, Lauren Hohman, Tyler Klang & Gabrielle Collins

Producer & Editor: Casby Bias

Associate Producer: Akiya McKnight

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06/29/23 • 39 min

Katie's Crib - Meg LeFauve: Pixar’s Inside Out, Parenting “Lava,” & Children’s Emotions

Transcript

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Welcome to Katie's Crib, a production of Shonda land Audio in partnership with iHeartRadio. The polls of the movie, our Joy wants to keep the core emotions away from sadness, right, so Joy, the whole movie is keep away, don't touch. And at the end of the movie, because now she understands way I created all of this because I'm trying to avoid sadness. Riley being sad as Joy's handing the balls, this memory balls over to sadness. This little girl i

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