Inside Out 2 teaser reveals the replacements for Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling
Hader and Kaling both declined to return for the franchise's second movie, reportedly over pay disputes
We’ve known for more than a year at this point that Pixar’s Inside Out 2 was suffering from some pretty serious casting disputes—specifically, that neither Bill Hader or Mindy Kaling would be returning for the film as Fear and Disgust, respectively, having apparently expressed their own fear and disgust at being offered way less money than Amy Poehler to return for the second film.
Now, Disney has released the first teaser trailer for the animated sequel, revealing how the studio has handled the sudden absence of the actors who originated what were, we were told back in 2015, fundamental and inalterable parts of the human emotional existence. Turns out that, as you get older, your inner Bill Hader starts to sound a lot like Arrested Development and Toy Story 4 star Tony Hale, while your inner Kaling switches over to Don’t Trust The B—— In Apartment 23's Liza Lapira. Developmental scientists are presumably scrambling to reconcile these new and exciting truths.
The trailer also reveals that, as main character/setting Riley ages into her teenage years, she’s starting to develop new emotions—in the case of the trailer, that means specifically introducing Anxiety, played by Maya Hawke, and looking kind of like an off-market Fraggle. (Now, does this clash with the lore of the first film, which established that everybody, including adults, had some mix of the original 5 emotions, sometimes in different arrangements or alignments? Yes, absolutely, and our senators will be hearing about this issue immediately.) The trailer also dives straight into the “good taste” bucket by scoring this new potential mental disorder’s disruptive appearance to the tune of “Crazy Train,” so… yeah.
Inside Out 2 arrives in theaters next year, landing on June 12. Poehler is set to reprise her starring role, alongside a returning Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black.