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

Amy Poehler can’t comprise her feelings in relation to Beyoncé.

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

“Effectively, 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 favored it – I’m going to want a minute. (Laughs.) Which means quite a bit. She’s simply such a GOAT; she’s unbelievable at completely every little thing she does.”

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“Inside Out 2” is now streaming on Disney+, and out there to buy on digital platforms comparable to Apple TV and Prime Video. The sequel earned roughly $1.7 billion worldwide, turning 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 about contained in the thoughts of a lady named Riley (Kensington Tallman), solely this time, she’s coping with new teenage feelings like Nervousness (Maya Hawke). Within the near-decade because the final movie, fashionable tradition has helped normalize discussions round psychological well being, significantly amongst Gen Z.

“Folks have been actually prepared to speak about anxiousness and the way it bumps up in opposition to pleasure, and what’s poisonous positivity,” Poehler says. “Folks 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 a whole lot of themes in there about being a mum or dad,” 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 concerning 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 need to stress youngsters out” by leaving the key unaddressed, Poehler explains.)

The film was a spotlight of “the most effective summer time ever” for Poehler, who turned 53 final week. The beloved “Saturday Night time Stay” veteran rang in her birthday on the red-carpet premiere of Marvel collection “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 liked being in my 50s,” Poehler says. “I’ve had a extremely great yr full of a whole lot 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 sincere, that folks contemplate ‘Inside Out 2’ for an Academy Award for finest movie,” she says. The final time an animated film acquired a finest 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.

“Out of your lips to God’s ears,” Poehler says with a smile. “God, aka Beyoncé.”