How Maya Hawke Associated Associated to Her ‘Inside Out 2’ Character, Anxiousness

Maya Hawke is opening up about her personal experiences with nervousness.

Hawke, 25, personifies the sensation in Pixar‘s newest film Inside Out 2, by which her character Anxiousness joins the host of feelings within a younger woman’s mind as she enters her teenage years and begins experiencing extra advanced feelings.

“I’ve nervousness, however I don’t have debilitating nervousness or medical grade nervousness,” she stated in a promotional interview for the film shared on Disney’s web site. “I do have, like, a personality inside me that frets and worries, and so I used to be actually in a position to play with that character that I’ve had in my very own life, let her free, and provides her free reign on this position, which was actually cool.”

Hawke’s character joins different newcomers like Envy (Ayo Edibiri), Ennui (Adèle Excharpolous) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) within the sequel to 2015’s Inside Out, which launched and made fan favorites of feelings like Pleasure (Amy Poehler), Disappointment (Phyllis Smith) and Anger (Lewis Black).

“The little voice that I hear in my very own head — the one which tells me to fret if my sneakers are mistaken or if I’m going be late to the airport or say the mistaken factor — no matter that voice is that’s in my very own head, I simply tapped into that and let it come out of my mouth as an alternative of retaining it in my mind,” Hawke stated of how she approached taking part in the character.

The Stranger Issues star and musician informed Disney within the interview that she knew she needed to play the position when she noticed a drawing of the character throughout her audition course of.

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“And it was extremely rewarding to see the top consequence,” she added. “In actual fact, a few of the hand gestures and little actions that I did through the voice recording made it into the way in which the character was animated, which was simply the good factor to see.”

The sequel additionally options the voices of Tony Hale and Liza Lapira (Loopy Silly Love), who stepped in to voice characters initially portrayed by Invoice Hader and Mindy Kaling. “This film is only a power for good. It’s like a double rainbow,” Hawke informed Disney of the movie, which grew into the highest-grossing launch of 2024 in simply its first two weeks on the home field workplace.

Inside Out 2 is in theaters now.