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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13934177" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rosalie-chiang" source="Orion">Rosalie Chiang</keyword> is the voice of Meilin Lee in <keyword id="13934178" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="domee-shi" source="Orion">Domee Shi</keyword>'s feature directorial debut at <keyword id="12402872" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pixar" source="Orion">Pixar</keyword>, "<keyword id="12924865" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="turning-red" source="Orion">Turning Red</keyword>."</li><li>Chiang spoke with Insider about working on the film, and how it connected to her own adolescence. </li></ul>Rosalie Chiang was 12 years old when she first became the voice of Meilin Lee in "Turning Red."At the time, the actor was hired as a "scratch" voice for the film, meaning that she was recording temporary dialogue for use during the production process, not for the final cut of the film. Two years later into production, when it came time to actually cast the role, director Domee Shi and producer Lindsey Collins realized that "nobody" else who had auditioned "came close" to Chiang's performance, <a href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/bay-area-teen-rosalie-chiang-is-the-overnight-star-in-disney-pixars-turning-red">Collins told the San Francisco Chronicle.</a>And so, in 2020, Chiang became the official voice of Meilin Lee — a confident, Chinese-Canadian 13-year-old who splits time between school, her tight-knit, boy band-loving friends, and working at her family's temple. In the film, Meilin learns the women of her family are cursed: Each of them inherited the power to transform into a giant red panda, but all of her other female relatives sealed away the ability when they were young using a ritual. Chiang spoke with Insider about her experience working on "Turning Red," including her "confusion and disgust" when one of her most embarrassing lines made it into the film, how it reflects her own experience of girlhood and fandom, and what it was like meeting Billie Eilish at the film's Los Angeles premiere. Warning: Spoilers for "Turning Red" below.<div type="image" title="Turning Red Panda Mei" height="3237" width="4316" msid="91560782" hostid="261"></div>The home release of this film includes a ton of <a href="https://www.insider.com/turning-red-deleted-scene-mei-cousin-2022-4">deleted scenes</a> and featurettes. Obviously, you started recording for this film when you were much younger than you are now. What's it like to look back on your early work for this film?The things Domee Shi has made me do in that recording booth... People think the scene where Meilin cat-calls Devon is the most embarrassing thing, but there are things that didn't even make it into the actual film. I'm not gonna say anything specific, but that's how weird they were.Working with Domee, were there a lot of those moments where she pushed you further into that cringe zone?I would say so, yeah. There were times where I looked at the script and I was like, "I gotta say that?" But it's okay, I said it, it was great.All these weird things Domee has made me do have really pushed me out of my comfort zone, and I really appreciate that this gives me the opportunity to not be embarrassed and just go all out.I know you're on TikTok and have spoken about this a bit there, but people love the "Awooga" line. What were you feeling when you realized that the line had made it into the final cut, and then when it went viral after?Probably a mix of confusion and disgust. I was just shocked, because I completely convinced myself that they're not gonna put that in the film. I was like, "Oh, this is okay, no one cares about this line." And then it made it into the film, and I was like, "Oh my gosh, it's going to become a meme isn't it." Next thing I know, I see someone just had a clip of that moment that had like 8 million views. I'm just like, "Wow, okay, that went viral." And then I posted that TikTok and it went viral, it's crazy.One of the other moments that's gone viral on TikTok from "Turning Red" is the scene towards the end where Mei's family is <a href="https://www.polygon.com/22973286/turning-red-ritual-chant-cantonese-chinese-words">chanting in Cantonese</a> and then her friends and their favorite boy band 4Town join in. What was your reaction to that scene while you were recording, and then when that particular moment went viral like it did?Actually, when I recorded the scene, I thought it was pretty boring. I just had the stage directions and my lines saying, "Oh, she yells that, oh, she's running there, oh, she punches." And I'm like, "All right, non-verbal, non-verbal, non-verbal, all right, I got it."I didn't even know that scene existed, so when I saw it at the "Turning Red" wrap party, my mind was blown.<div type="image" title="Turning Red Mei's friends" height="2454" width="3272" msid="91560783" hostid="261"></div>Your character, Meilin, is just so refreshing to see in an <keyword id="13934179" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="animated" source="Orion">animated</keyword> film. You grew up alongside her while you were making the <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword> as well — how do you see her as serving as a role model for girls, or what were you feeling in relation to her while working on this film?What's different with her compared to other coming-of-age films is that I see a lot people online saying they're so annoying and cringey, but everyone at that age was annoying and cringey. A lot of coming-of-age movies I've watched, I never really connect to them because I feel like there's this sort of airbrushed, filtered feel to it, where they're not really showing the horrors of being a tween.So for this movie to fully depict that, no filter, just these crazy girls, I think it means a lot.Totally. I remember criticism that this movie was unrealistic, or it's too mature, it's like — no, all of us were like this, actually.Yeah. My friends can be vulgar. No parents think that, but we are. On the "cringey" front, one of the things that I love the most about this film is how much it celebrates fandom and cringe. I know you're big into K-pop — were there aspects of that experience, or of generally being a fan, that you brought into this film? What about fandom in the film resonated with you?Their love for 4Town is so reminiscent of my squad and I's love for K-pop in general. It just felt so real, just seeing these girls have their minds blown about 4Town, which is the exact same reaction I had with my friends. We actually wanted to go to the <a href="https://mashable.com/video/twice-the-feels-fallon-english">Twice concert</a>, because they came to the United States recently. We didn't have enough money. The tickets were expensive as hell, and we almost were like, "Oh gosh, we need to hustle everything we have to make money for this band."They sell out so fast! I also missed Twice. Are you trying to catch <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/dreamcatcher-north-american-dates-apocalypse-save-us-world-tour-3214303">Dreamcatcher</a>, or any other upcoming K-pop tours?I want to, I really do. Dreamcatcher got their first win on a Korean music show, and I've been mentioning their name in every single interview I possibly could.I'm manifesting for you. Pivoting a bit, you co-starred with <keyword id="11995412" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sandra-oh" source="Orion">Sandra Oh</keyword> in this film and did a bunch of press with her. What was that relationship like, and was there any advice that she passed on to you during that time?I didn't get to work with her during the making of this film, but she did invite me to lunch right before the press tour started, so we were able to speak. And she's such a warm and kind person who just wanted to know about me, and we developed this really cool bond throughout this entire press tour because we're just answering questions over and over, and it can get a little stressful.But her best piece of advice she's given me is to just be kind to myself, because I feel like as a teenager I can be very self-deprecating and critical of myself.I know you <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CaqRsJnLBRW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link">spoke a bit on Instagram</a> about coming to terms with, "Oh, I actually killed it in this movie." What did that moment feel like?It was emotional, because I started acting when I was nine. So it's been seven years, and for the longest time I just wasn't getting anything. I was getting no auditions, let alone bookings or callbacks. And during that period of time, I was still just a temporary voice for Mei in "Turning Red," so there was a chance I would just lose this entire movie. I was just living on the edge, and I sort of thought "Turning Red" was a fluke, and that after this, whether I book it or not, I'm just gonna disappear and that's it.Watching the movie for the fourth time, it was the first time I realized that I had achieved what I wanted to achieve since I was nine years old. And Sandra Oh put her hand on my shoulder and said, "You did a good job. You worked really hard on this and it really shows." And that just meant the world to me. "Turning Red'' had so many fun collaborators, and obviously 4Town's music has become very beloved and went viral. What was your reaction when you learned that Billie Eilish and Finneas would be writing the boy band music? What was it like meeting Billie at the Los Angeles premiere?I was pretty shocked, because at that time, I did know some of Billie Eilish's discography, and I thought, "Really? Boy band songs?" That really speaks to how talented they really are as music artists.And when I met her, she was so cool and down to earth. I got to hug her, like that's one of the coolest experiences of my life. That day of the LA Premiere is all a blur, honestly. I don't remember anything that day. It's just sort of two seconds, and then done, and I'm back home sleeping. <div type="image" title="rosalie chiang in a fluffy white dress, billie eilish in a gorillaz shirt and beanie, and sandra oh in a bright blue dress at the turning red premiere in Los Angeles" height="2378" width="3171" msid="91560784" hostid="261"></div>A lot of the reception to this film has been so wonderful, but there was also people saying that <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/turning-red-cast-defends-film-racist-cinemablend-review-1235200056/">the film wasn't relatable</a>, or that it was too specific, in sometimes racist or sexist ways. What was your take on that sort of reaction to the film?This movie has gotten every single kind of reaction you can possibly get. The whole thing about not being relatable — I completely respect that review, because if you didn't relate to it, you didn't relate to it, and I'm not gonna say, "Hey, you have to relate to it."A relatable movie doesn't necessarily mean it's the greatest movie of all time, and I hope people can see this as just a window or a door to another culture, to another life. Because this is something that you have some people saying, "Oh, I don't relate to this, it's too exaggerated and this doesn't happen in real life." And then you have another side saying, "Oh yeah, it does happen, this is literally my life." I say just look at it, and take it with a grain of salt, and just enjoy.And then, I see a lot of mothers reviewing it, saying it's inappropriate and everything. And I just think that's so funny, because I feel like that's exactly how Meilin's mother Ming would react to this film, saying it's inappropriate, and they're just children. But children go through this! This isn't new, this is really accurate. Like I said earlier, my friends and I are super vulgar. I'd say, I respect your opinion, but I just hope you enjoy it, whether you relate to it or not.This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity."Turning Red" is currently available to stream on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2Fvideo%2Feb9767e6-f3ed-4d81-bb6f-c8da77129c7e%3FdistributionPartner%3Dgoogle">Disney+</a>, as well <a href="https://movies.disney.com/turning-red">as digitally and on Blu-Ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD</a>.

'Turning Red' star Rosalie Chiang on being 'shocked' Billie Eilish and Finneas wrote the movie's boy band music, the viral 'Awooga' line, and other behind-the-scenes secrets

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12016075" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="billie-eilish" source="Orion">Billie Eilish</keyword> and <keyword id="12087733" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="finneas-oconnell" source="Orion">Finneas O'Connell</keyword> wrote three new songs for <keyword id="12402872" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pixar" source="Orion">Pixar</keyword>'s next movie, "<keyword id="12924865" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="turning-red" source="Orion">Turning Red</keyword>."</li><li>Among the songs are a love ballad and a song the Pixar team couldn't stop singing.</li></ul>Pixar's next movie, "<a href="https://insider.com/category/turning-red">Turning Red</a>," features new <keyword id="11898471" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="music" source="Orion">music</keyword> from <a href="https://insider.com/category/billie-eilish">Billie Eilish</a> and <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/finneas-oconnell">Finneas O'Connell</a>.The siblings wrote three new songs that will be featured in the animated film, performed by a fictional boy band, 4*Town, a nod to boy bands of the late '90s and early aughts. O'Connell also voices one of the boy band members, Jesse."Turning Red," set in 2002, follows Mei (Rosalie Chiang) and her middle school friends as they're desperate to see 4*Town in concert. Unfortunately, after being royally embarrassed in public by her well-meaning (but overbearing) mom (Sandra Oh), Mei wakes to find herself turning into a giant red panda whenever she gets overly excited. That's not exactly the look you want if you're trying to see the boy band of your dreams.During a virtual press day for the film back in January, Insider screened about the first half-hour of "Turning Red" where we got a glimpse of the boy band, starring in a TV commercial for a concert Mei wants to attend.We also learned how the superstar siblings wound up working on the Pixar film and what to expect from the singles they wrote for the film.<h2>Pixar pitched 'Turning Red' to the siblings by sending them a handmade scrapbook.</h2><div type="image" title="4*Town concert flyer in Turning Red" height="1311" width="2484" msid="89410692" hostid="261"></div>"Turning Red" producer Lindsey Collins ("Wall-E," "Finding Dory") credits her kid's love for Eilish and a scrapbook featuring the musician's heads on cartoon characters to landing the pair."I have three teenagers at home, so music is constantly playing in my house, in my car, everywhere," Collins told press mid-January over Zoom. "Billie Eilish was actually relatively unknown but adored by my kids in 2016 when her song 'Ocean Eyes' was being played on repeat in my house. So when we started to think about songwriters who could kind of capture the early-2000 sound and bring something fresh to it, Billie's name came up."Collins said Eilish and O'Connell quickly became their dream choice after researching with the <keyword id="46161" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="disney" source="Orion">Disney</keyword> music team. However, the "Turning Red" team, led by director Domee Shi ("Bao"), thought it may be a "weird ask" of the duo. So they made an elaborate scrapbook, featuring the two, to pitch the film. It was meant to look like something the film's lead character made so they got a feel for Mei (Rosalie Chiang) and understood her obsession with the band.<div type="image" title="Turning Red, Mei with red hair" height="1317" width="2487" msid="89410694" hostid="261"></div>"We weren't even sure they'd take the meeting," Collins said. "We made this scrapbook. It was actually a physical scrapbook that looked something like Mei would make herself. It had doodles and drawings and photos and fan art, and we cut out Billie and Finneas' head and put them on 4*Town characters.""It turns out the scrapbook worked because Billie and Finneas agreed to do it," Collins added.The team met with the siblings in Los Angeles pre-pandemic to walk them through what they were looking for and to show them an early look at the film, noting that the duo received "early clips" and "storyboards of the scenes that showcased the songs.""They're animation fans," Collins explained. "They kind of instantly got what we were going for and pitching."<h2>Eilish and O'Connell wrote a love ballad, a banger the Pixar team couldn't get out of their heads, and another original song.</h2><div type="image" title="Finneas and Billie Eilish in 2021" height="3208" width="5000" msid="89410697" hostid="261"></div>Once the two joined the project, Collins and the "Turning Red" team gave Eilish and O'Connell ideas for three original songs they wanted for the film."The first one we said was called the confidence booster," Collins said. "That's the song you sing to one of your friends when they're feeling down." "Then we want a hit song that everybody knows," she said of the second song the pair wrote. "It's the song you can't get out of your head, and you belt out at full volume in the car — and literally they delivered massively on that one. I think we're all still singing the songs."Collins described the third song as a love ballad "that makes you feel like you just had your heartbroken, even though you're 13 and have never gone on a date.""It's that song that makes you like, 'I get it. I get what heartbreak feels like,'" she added, saying they loved the songs so much that they started inserting them into other small moments of the film. "We were always like, "Can we play it in this scene, too?'" and 'What if the girls are singing it here, too?' We tried to take advantage as much as possible of the songs that they delivered," Collins said.<h2>They recorded the music during the pandemic, building tiny houses for each performer to sing safely inside.</h2><div type="image" title="Turning Red - Mei and 4*Town" height="1073" width="1998" msid="89410699" hostid="261"></div>In addition to O'Connell, Jordan Fisher, Topher Ngo, Grayson Villanueva, and Josh Levi voice the other members of 4*Town: Robaire, Aaron T., Tae Young, and Aaron Z., respectively.When Pixar needed to record the music with the group and Eilish during the pandemic, one of the challenges was to capture their performances together, safely.Instead of singing alongside one another, Collins said each performer "had their own hut...that had windows" so they could sing and "see each other through the windows."You'll be able to hear Eilish and O'Connell's new songs when "Turning Red" debuts on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2F" rel="nofollow sponsored">Disney+</a> on March 11.

Pixar sent Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell a boy band-inspired scrapbook to convince them to write music for their next animated movie, 'Turning Red'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Coming-of-age film "<keyword id="12924865" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="turning-red" source="Orion">Turning Red</keyword>" is <keyword id="12402872" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pixar" source="Orion">Pixar</keyword>'s first film with an all-female leadership team.</li><li>Director Domee Shi said it led to sharing more personal experiences like "embarrassing period stories."</li></ul><a href="https://insider.com/category/pixar">Pixar</a>'s 25th animated feature, "<a href="https://insider.com/category/turning-red">Turning Red</a>," is the studio's first film to have an all-female leadership team, with a female director, producer, visual-effects supervisor, and production designer among its lead creatives. During a press day for the film, director Domee Shi (who previously helmed Pixar's <a href="https://www.insider.com/pixar-short-bao-confusion-culture-2018-6">Oscar-winning short film "Bao"</a>) told Insider it was especially helpful to brainstorm the coming-of-age film with other women since "Turning Red" follows a tween, Meilin (Rosalie Chiang) who starts turning into a giant red panda — a metaphor for puberty — whenever she's overly excited. "It's useful that most of the leadership has experience being an awkward tween girl so that we could bring that experience and those personal stories to the table when it came to animating, designing, and coming up with gags and ideas for the characters in the <keyword id="11897475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie" source="Orion">movie</keyword>," Shi said of the mother and daughter story, which is inspired by her own relationship with her mother.<div type="image" title="Sandra Oh stars as Mei's mom in Turning Red" height="3238" width="5994" msid="89412391" hostid="261"></div>The experience also allowed the Pixar team to feel comfortable opening up about topics that generally may feel a little more taboo with male counterparts present."I think we've all had super embarrassing period stories and that definitely added to — 'OK. We have to have a scene like this in the movie,'" Shi said.If that has you turning red and blushing, it's not something to be embarrassed about. <div type="image" title="Sandra Oh Turning Red Pixar" height="3240" width="5994" msid="89412392" hostid="261"></div>"If we're going to be doing a coming-of-age girl story, this is such a pivotal milestone in every girl's life, to have an embarrassing period story," Shi added. "That was huge for us."Shi, who is making her feature debut with "Turning Red," is joined here by producer and Pixar veteran Lindsey Collins.Collins, who has been at Pixar for over 20 years and has worked as a producer on films ranging from "Wall-E" to "Finding Dory," told Insider during the press day's Q&amp;A session it was "kind of awesome to be unapologetic" while throwing out ideas for the film while not feeling "worried about it internally."<div type="image" title="Turning Red female leadership team" height="1800" width="1800" msid="89412393" hostid="261"></div>"There was something about the confidence of having so many women in leadership positions on the [film] that, I think, let us be a little bit bolder with some of the choices we were making and not second guess it before we even got it through story or through editorial," Collins said."As a result, more of those choices ended up in the film," Collins added. "We didn't kind of water it down, preemptively, because we allowed ourselves to be a little bit bolder."In addition to Collins and Shi, Danielle Feinberg serves as the film's visual effects supervisor, Rona Liu is the film's production designer, Lisa Fotheringham is the movie's production manager, and Patty Kihm is one of the project's animation supervisors.<div type="image" title="(From left to right): Production manager Lisa Fotheringham, producer Lindsey Collins, director Domee Shi, visual effects supervisor Danielle Feinberg and associate producer Sabine O’Sullivan talk on their way between meetings on October 25, 2021 at Pixar Animation Studios." height="3759" width="5640" msid="89412394" hostid="261"></div>Though a lot of the movie was completed at home during the pandemic, Collins was proud they were able to screen the film for 2,000 people at an outdoor amphitheater for the first time on a big screen."We managed, by some miracle, to do a wrap party for the whole studio at Pixar, which we normally do. But it's been, obviously, a very long time since we've been able to do it," Collins said."The leadership was standing up on the stage and we were all women," Collins continued, adding that she didn't fully grasp how big of a deal it was until they received a standing ovation. "This amazing response from all of the people we work with, just from the sheer fact that this was the first time they were seeing all women up on stage. It was pretty special."It may be the only place where Collins, Shi, and the other women get to share in such applause. <div type="image" title="Director Domee Shi gives notes during a Turning Red review in the Steve Jobs Building Theater on May 18, 2021 at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif." height="3246" width="4320" msid="89412395" hostid="261"></div>In January, <keyword id="46161" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="disney" source="Orion">Disney</keyword> and Pixar announced that "Turning Red" will skip theaters and exclusively stream on Disney+, a move that Pixar staff told Insider's Jason Guerrasio <a href="https://www.insider.com/pixar-staff-disappointed-turning-red-going-straight-to-disney-2022-1">left them in "shock" and "disappointed"</a> despite understanding the decision was made amid a surge of new COVID-19 cases with the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-variant-now-most-common-coronavirus-variant-in-us-cdc-2021-12">spread of the Omicron variant</a>.Collins, Shi, and Pixar didn't address the film's move to Disney+ during its press day. Also starring the voice talents of Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan ("Never Have I Ever"), Jordan Fisher, and Finneas O'Connell, "Turning Red" will stream exclusively on <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/disney-plus">Disney+</a> on March 11. You can <a href="https://insider.com/what-is-pixar-next-movie-turning-red-2022-2">read more about the film here</a>.Sign up for Disney+ to get access to "Turning Red" on March 11:<a target="_merchant" href="https://www.disneyplus.com/"></a><a target="_merchant" href="https://www.disneyplus.com/">Disney Plus Monthly Subscription Service</a><a target="_merchant" href="https://www.disneyplus.com/">$7.99 FROM DISNEY+</a>

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