The leadership crew of Turning Red, Pixar's 25th animated feature, is the first to be exclusively women, with a female director, producer, visual-effects supervisor, production designer, and others on a long list of the film's creative members.
The director recently recalled the all-female crew swapping period stories in the making of the coming-of-age movie.
The coming-of-age film, ran by an entirely female crew, swapped their personal period stories amid the making of the movie as a brainstorming method.
Turning Red, set to be released in March 2022, is a story about a pre-teen named Meilin who begins to turn into a red panda — a metaphor for puberty.
"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,'" Domee continued.
"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," she said.
The film's producer, Lindsey Collins, who also worked on Finding Dory and Wall-E chimed in, adding that it was "kind of awesome to be unapologetic" and brainstorm ideas without having to "worried about it internally."
She explained that it liberated them and "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."
She added that their authenticity got to shine through more because they didn't have to dilute their ideas due to the presence of male colleagues.
"This was the first time they were seeing all women up on stage. It was pretty special."
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