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When I come up with ideas, they'll just
start from a very, like, primal, I just

want to see this cute thing on screen.
And then I'll find the meaning and the

metaphor and the themes to justify why
it should be that. But really, it just

came from, like, a place of, like, ah,
they're so cute. And wouldn't it be

awesome if they were gigantic?

I'm excited.

And then the girl is, like, the older
one, right?

I didn't realize they'd be so small.

Real red pandas are really cute, and I
think that's the main reason why I was

drawn to making a story about them.

They've got kind of a belly sometimes.

They're very tubular, and they have very
long, fluffy tails, more pointed

snouts. The tail's about 18 inches.

Oh.

They feel a little cat -like, kind of
raccoon, kind of bear, maybe a little

splash of monkey or something.

Look at it.

They're totally solitary.

They don't really communicate with one
another. They're kind of like, you know,

teenagers. I found a lot of, like,
parallels between red pandas and May

and her story. Like, red pandas are very
attached to their moms.

They sleep all day.

They eat bamboo, but they're not
supposed to eat bamboo. Like, bamboo

give them enough nutrients.

so i kind of imagine it's just like a
lazy teenager just eating chips and

sleeping all day they're native to china
then also it's like red and white like

chinese but also like the colors of the
canadian flag too so it felt like the

perfect animal to tell this story about
this chinese canadian teenage girl

I'm Mei Lin Lee, and ever since I turned
13, I've been doing my own thing,

making my own moves. 24 -7, 365.

Turning Red is about Mei, a Chinese
-Canadian girl living in Toronto in

2002. It's very specific.

It's a mother -daughter story.

At its most base level, this film is
about growing up and figuring out who

are and embracing that.

Mei Lin!

Everything changes for May when she
wakes up one morning and discovers she's

giant eight -foot -tall furry red panda.
And she realizes, oh, like, I can

control this transformation.

If I just stay completely calm and even
for the rest of my life, I will stay

human and it'll be A -OK.

But that's not how life works.

So the red panda is basically a metaphor
for magical puberty.

Just seeing how this girl who thought
she had everything under control

big and hairy and smelly, an emotional
wreck.

This panda is incredibly cute.

It's also true to that time in a girl's
life. In some ways, it's the worst time.

You're not a kid and you're not an
adult.

This poor girl, she's looking in a
mirror and seeing that she's got hair

everywhere and she stinks and she's big
and doesn't fit through the doorway.

Panda Mae is only half in control. She's
having a great time, but then she's

like, ah!

And like, I don't know, that feels very
much like what my teenage years were

like.

It's bodily, it's emotional, it's all
about, can I embrace this? Can I grow

it? Can I still love who I am, knowing
that I've become someone that I'm not

used to?

It's the first time in my career where
all the key

leadership on the show are women.

And I feel like that sets a very
different vibe.

It's completely amazing to have this all
-women leadership team. I have spent

the entirety of my career in meetings
where I was one of very few women.

Now sitting there and making plans and
it's all women in the room has been this

really crazy thing and very different
for me.

Everything's different about this film.
I mean, I don't know how to answer that

question without starting with Domi.

She's a good girl, just like I was.

I first heard of Domi through seeing one
of her 10 -second animation clips.

I was in college and it was something
that she posted on her blog.

It was this dancing, twerking hamster to
a K -pop song.

Who is this girl? She's probably going
to be a really funny director one day.

When I first started this movie, I was
really determined to make something

different. We're going to be spending
four or five years of our life on this.

We've got to go big.

we cheat the director of red and ever
since we started making this movie we've

been breaking convention and making
people laugh 24 7 365 legally

it's 9 to 5 261 on this show we wear
what we want

say what we want And we will not
hesitate to do spontaneous cartwheels if

feel so moved.

Domi is a force of nature. She's a first
-time feature director.

It's been a while since I've worked with
a first -time director before, and I'm

loving it.

In conclusion, welcome to Ritz!

Did that actually change anything? Yes,
it did.

So, welcome, everyone.

Just ignore the camera.

Everyone. It's not there.

Don't look right here.

Making the film, it's just been like a
long marathon, but in the first couple

years, it was mostly me and Julia, our
screenwriter, and the head of story,

Rosie Sullivan, the story team, and then
Nick, our editor, and we were just

working on the reels. Yeah, it feels
like you're part of a pirate ship.

Because you're all kind of just working
and sweating for, like, these drawings,

and you're all aiming to make the
director react or respond.

I started working with her, and pretty
quickly, I felt like this woman is

impressive, also incredibly clear in her
vision. And then, ta -da, and, like,

imagine it to look like a comic book
background.

Thank you, Margaret.

Great work. So fun.

She is so unique in how she thinks about
movies, how she communicates her

vision, her humor, her tone.

Can I give this up for any of you to see
if it glues within our world?

Yes. What you're looking for?

Yes. Sorry.

I feel like I have to be more of a
director now with the camera.

The crew slowly grew bigger and bigger.

To give you a general sense of the...

And then like last year, it

just exploded.

And that was during the pandemic.

It just so happens that like the busiest
time on the show was when we were all

working from home.

It may not be obvious, I don't know, but
making films is a huge kind of team

effort. And so the more you can
collaborate with the people around you.

the better the movie's going to be.

As we were kind of leaving to walk out
the door for getting sent home, Domi

said, well, maybe I could do like a
coffee time or something just so we can

in touch with the crew.

And we all went, oh, what a great idea.
And in the beginning, it really was kind

of this awesome thing of just being able
to see more than like three people in

your life.

And also getting to hear from the
director weekly is pretty cool.

struggle throughout act two even if
sometimes it's just like a little update

felt like some kind of connection we are
starting with a couple nominations from

our dailies team i've been really
surprised because we routinely get a

and something people coming to it oh
thank

you exceptionally bad and so of key but
i really love it

here's to a better 2021 we're coming
together in some of the best way you can

during pandemic with a giant movie crew
so it's been pretty cool

my

job is visual effects supervisor on the
film first woman in 20 years at pixar to

have that job For almost 15 years, I was
a lighting DP, and so most of my career

at Pixar has been about lighting,
thinking about how to make the most

movie possible, how to make a great
experience for the lighting team. Maybe

little bit of this down here, even
though that would catch the light. How

engage with the director, how to
coordinate with other departments, how

groundbreaking stuff.

And then now I'm in this new role
overseeing heavily tech and some of the

creative, and I'm now in the leadership
group of running the movie.

And then at the same time, I became a
mother for the first time.

I have twins, a boy and a girl.

I don't know that I ever thought I was
going to have kids.

You know, there's days where it feels
completely overwhelming, I would say.

But I also am now a year and a half into
being a mother.

And I'm two years into this position.

I love both things dearly, and it's hard
to imagine not having them now.

And I got married to my amazing wife.

Paige is the

battalion chief for the Alameda County
Fire Department.

She is the highest -ranking woman of
that department, which...

I am never -endingly proud about.

She would not love that I'm bragging
about her, but I love to brag about her.

It's one of my favorite topics.

Are you going to be able to jump into
the end credit? We're moving it up to 2

.30, I think. This is Lindsay Collins.

She is the producer of Turning Red.

The producer is the one orchestrating
this giant circus.

She's the ringmaster.

When people are going, Lizzie's like,
okay, let's make a plan. Let's figure

how to make this happen.

So in the race to get this done, we're
probably just going to be working on top

of each other, which is great.

Lindsay's so smart. I think she's always
like a million steps ahead so that I

can worry about like what's happening in
the present.

Like I'm really good at working within
boxes and limitations.

And she was really good about like
drawing them out for me to be like crazy

push up against.

Just to draw the storyline together
maybe a little bit clearer.

I feel like I learned so much by
watching her and working with her.

I see it as the partner to the director.
So that includes being a creative

partner, but also managing the crew and
surrounding her with all the right

people. In every meeting, you always
offer ways to move story along, and

you help production through not just...

By managing it, but also just from like
an emotional, creative side as well. You

do. I kind of like it when... This is
Rona Lu. She's the production designer

Turning Red.

The production designer is the first
person brought on the show after the

producer and director.

You know, we're talking about the values
being like super, super crunched. And

that's basically because from the very
beginning, their job is to kind of

out what the movie is going to look
like. And that is everything from

to sets to color to tone and style. My
role is to collaborate closely with the

director and make sure that her vision
translates.

throughout all of the department and
onto the screen.

Cool, so welcome everyone.

Today we're gonna kick it off with
Athena and the panda costume shaping.

For her tail, the lighter part can take
on some of that red. I know I'm

providing information that other people
need to get their work done.

Tell them the two sides where there's
the star and the heart.

I feel like that's the most important
part of my job is to just make sure that

everybody else feels good about the work
that they're doing.

Thank you. Okay.

Good job, everyone. Thank you.

Thank you. Bye. Thanks.

Being pregnant while we're in the crunch
of things definitely made me have to

just trust my team a lot more. It's the
first time in my life where... I was

comfortable telling my manager, Sophia,
I need to take some time to nap.

Hey, Rona, where are we?

We're in the living room area. This is
the entrance to our house.

And this is our kitty.

This is my soon -to -be husband. We're
getting a Zoom married on Friday.

We've been engaged for so long, we
figured now's a good time to do it.

Being able to step away, touch base with
a loved one, and to say, hey, how's

your day going?

And just being really connected in both
of our lives for the first time, that's

been really comforting.

I'm an only child, and my dad had to go
away to work a lot, so a lot of the time

it was just me and my mom.

We'd go on.

Chinese bus tours.

Like, he'd pick the location, and she
would take us to, like, Atlanta or

Halifax, Prince Edward Island. Maybe
not, like, up front, like, the most

exciting places, but we would spend,
like, a ton of time just together on the

bus talking.

It was good at first, but, you know,
like, everybody, like, you grow up and

change and you want to have your own
friends and your own life, and it's kind

just about...

how that transition happens.

I love the lighting.

I love everything in this sequence.

Great work, you guys.

It's been a long time since I was 13,
but I just remember it being, like, a

of highs and lows.

It's such a turbulent time in a person's
life, especially a girl's, I think.

Small things can feel super, super
important, and you could love something

day and hate it the other.

I didn't even like Sport Town last year,
but now they're literally the greatest

thing that's ever happened to me!

This film is very personal to me in that
it was...

Very much inspired by my own life
growing up in Toronto and being the only

of my overprotective mom and dad.

We're about to hop onto a Zoom call with
my parents, and they're going to dig

through all of the artwork and things
that I've ever created in my life.

collected all of it. Everything.

Everything. Where's my parents?

Hi! Hi, little mojo!

How's it going? Is it weird having a
whole camera crew in the house?

Yes. Yes, people, yes, they are around
us.

They live in Toronto, Canada, still in
the same house that I grew up in. It

pretty much looks exactly the same every
time I go back.

You write a letter, remember, to Santa
Claus asking for it.

Yeah, and then you replied as Santa
Claus.

Why would Santa Claus ever say that?

She wrote a table of contents,

a foreword. Can you read some of your
forewords?

This is a collection of Domi's writing
during her grade four to six.

Domi loved writing and drawing when she
was young.

So my dad would be like my art tutor,
but my mom would encourage my writing.

So that piece is making me so impressed.

This one is your name.

Oh, the Wi -Fi sucks.

No, he's saying nice things about me and
I can't hear it.

He's never this generous with his
priest. Come on. Oh, God.

It's so big.

In the living room, there's like an ever
-growing shrine dedicated to me.

It looks like they really love me and
that I'm dead or something.

And this one is you get six years old
and we get the Canadian citizenship.

Oh yeah, I remember the judge.

I heard you guys collected all of my
sketchbooks.

Let's look through them together.

Pokemon. Oh yeah, Pokemon.

That's middle school.

And then high school is when I started
drawing a lot of like beautiful people.

If there's boys, then it's close to high
school.

Oh my God.

Oh, this is so embarrassing.

There was like this fan art contest that
I entered where it's like, draw Draco's

children.

Okay, maybe we can look at another
sketchbook.

Mmm, heaven.

May I remind you what real men look
like?

There's just so much comedy in female
adolescence.

that I don't see a lot of. I can't wait
to show people just how weird girls can

be.

Because I was totally that as a teen and
a young adult and like now.

I love how Mae is just a confident dork.

And she's unapologetic about it.

I feel like she was the girl that I
wanted to be.

There's so many elements of me in Mae.

Spunky.

loud doesn't care what anyone thinks i
accept and embrace all labels even

i was a total nerd i was so oblivious to
that and i think that helped me she

herself never questions who she is and i
think she fights what is expected of

her but deep down she always knew who
she was and she was always so accepting

herself i remember being that at some
point and then you know hitting that age

and then suddenly turning very very shy
when i got acne and then you know and i

was very aware of my body and all that
stuff and that's what i wanted to

with you know may turning into a red
panda she's this girl that has her life

together and then all of a sudden
magical puberty hits it's going to be

out excuse me are you serious for

may i really wanted her to sound Oh my
gosh, that's like the best thing ever. I

wanted her to feel like a real girl.

Oh my gosh, that was the best thing
ever.

And so we found Rosalie Chang.

It's like you feel bad about turning her
down because she's your mom.

Wow. She just had this really great
voice. It was just like a charming

imperfection to it.

Schedule, hurry.

For me, it was important to design her
in the way that we saw ourselves.

Her face is round.

Her ankles are thick.

We definitely embraced her chunky cute.
It's kind of our design aesthetic for

our characters and for our sets.

We were like looking at each other's
faces. We're like, hey, we got moles.

should have moles.

And then you're like, hey, Rona, you
have that dip in your lip. Let's put

in. Hey, Rona, you have really patchy
eyebrows.

When that part of myself gets celebrated
and the director's like, hey, I like

that, let's put it in our main
character, you're like, hey, why did I

for so long?

Genius! Genius!

It's happening!

What are you doing?

For me, this story is so much my day -to
-day life.

I have to admit that I am much more the
mom than I am the main character because

I actually have three kids who are
teens.

I am surrounded by teenagers and
hormones and puberty at work, and then I

home and I am equally, if not more,
surrounded by puberty and hormones at

Are you guys going to walk the dog?

Or will you take him together?

Or are you going to take him separate?

Hi.

Thank you.

We're being very well behaved.

It's not normally good.

The number one rule in my family, honor
your parents.

They're the supreme beings who gave you
life. The least you can do in return is

every single thing they ask.

I think both of us probably grew up
under a lot of pressure to, you know,

our parents proud.

I had that pressure on myself.

Like, I was very high strung.

I was really into good grades.

I was into the image of the perfect
girl.

I never asked for anything.

My whole life I've been her perfect
little May -May. Temple duties, grades,

violin, top dancing.

Yeah, we've been so good. If they don't
trust us anyway, then what's the point?

May's struggle in this film is she's
torn between being her mom's good little

daughter and embracing her like wild.

inner beast.

That is a universal struggle that a lot
of kids go through, especially, I think,

immigrant kids. There's definitely more
of this obligation to carry on your

family's legacy and make sure that their
sacrifices in coming to a new country

aren't in vain, but also you're in a new
country, you're experiencing all of

this crazy, awesome stuff that maybe
your parents didn't get to grow up with.

They're caught between two worlds, and
that's kind of what I wanted to explore

in May, and also, like, literally caught
between being, like, a human girl and a

panda.

I immigrated to the U .S. when I was 10,
and my mom is very much in

her Eastern roots.

And when I came here, you know, I was...

The good little Chinese girl that I knew
how to be. And then as I get more and

more exposed to the Western culture and
what it means to be an American

teenager, my mom and I started to butt
heads. I had to discover how to

bridge the gap between being a beautiful
daughter, faithful to

myself, and a good friend.

In eighth grade, I met my best friend.

Aya Alladel, she really taught me that
girls can burp

the alphabet.

Girls can want to play video games.

If you trip and you fall on your face,
you can learn to laugh at yourself.

You don't have to be embarrassed for
your decisions, for your mistakes, for

you are.

She really opened my eyes to all of
that.

This is Bao.

This is... Your first baby.

Our first baby.

Our first baby.

Rona designed this cute little nose for
him.

Used our own noses. You look like your
mother.

I had this short film that I was
developing that became Bao, and Rona was

the first people that I roped into the
story.

I was like, dang, she can really paint,
and she has really good taste, and she

seems really cool.

I really need an art person to take this
to the next level.

To be honest, I will follow you to the
ends of the earth. I think Domi is just

brilliant, brilliant mind.

I just feel like we click and we can be
so open in communicating with each

other. We're different enough in certain
areas of our tastes that we can

collaborate and create something even
better together than if we worked on

something separately.

Hey, Lisa. In the movie, Mei and her
family own and take care of a family

temple. We took several trips to
different historic temples around

that were built by early Chinese
settlers just to get a feeling of what

grassroots temples are like.

I also spent time living behind a temple
with my grandma in China, and I just

remember it being just a really
lovely...

I'd make candles, and we would sell them
to visitors of the temples, and I

learned how to pray properly with my
grandma.

When we got to, like, building the set
of the temple and dressing it, it was

really cool, like, seeing those details
that we saw at the temples kind of pop

up in the background.

Like, there's just a bottle of vegetable
oil, like, cleaning supplies tucked

away in the corner.

They've been around since, like, the
Gold Rush era. A lot of these immigrants

who came with, like, so little were able
to cobble together a little piece of

home.

That kind of felt like the immigrant
spirit. That kind of felt like me and

and how, like, we, in our art, we are
inspired by Eastern and Western stuff.

Should we try to match their faces? I
remember you saying, Rona, like, this is

not a Chinese film. This is a coming -of
-age film.

But it just happens.

to be about a Chinese girl.

We need to really tap into the mind of a
13 year old growing up in 2002, growing

up in Toronto.

What did we like when we were 13?

And we liked Sailor Moon.

We liked anime.

The fandoms are what got me really into
anime.

I was drawing fan art passionately. I
had a secret sketchbook.

You join an online community.

you draw fan art and then other people
would comment on it and that would

encourage you to draw more produce more
and that's kind of just what encouraged

me to keep drawing i think as a kid it
was like such an escape i know i'm asian

but i'm in a very white

It kind of was nice to be connected to
that Asian side of myself.

I didn't have a boyfriend, so then it's
nice to read about boyfriends.

Yeah, and a lot of them are drawn and
written by women, too. Right. There was

lot of stories told from, like, a girl's
point of view. And they're, like, the

heroes. Yep. They, like, save the day or
they change the hearts of all the boys

and make them fall for her.

This is my house.

This is my boyfriend, Darren.

My many game consoles.

I've been using these to de -stress over
quarantine.

This is this awesome Miyazaki art book I
got about the

Ghibli Museum.

I got this rug over quarantine.

Diane really likes this rug.

Where's Diane?

Diane? Don't be scared.

Don't be scared.

Don't be scared. Come on.

She'll come out. She's shy.

I think I'm...

craving even more speed as she poofs
into a panda and shoots forward.

We're paying homage to Anna Mae
throughout the entire movie.

You can see it in the expressions and
the acting, the starry eyes in Mae when

she sees a boy that she really, really
loves.

Uh, Mae?

Why are you staring at Carter Murphy
Mayhew? We definitely have a lot of

expertise on the movie about being 13
-year -old girls, for sure.

There's definitely a...

uh lived experience there that we get to
bring to the movie making maybe in a

different way than i would have been
able to say on a movie like wally wow

scene with may going under the bed and
all of a sudden she's sort of gripped by

things and she's drawing these sexy
pictures and the conflict there and why

i draw those things i mean i wasn't
under my bed drawing things but when i

11 i had a little wooden clothespin

And I had this mad crush on this woman
that was older than me, but I did not

know that I was gay at the time.

And I remember drawing her name on the
clothespin and then flipping it over,

she played a sport, so I put her number
down.

And, like, that sat on my desk, and I
would look at it sometimes. You know,

like, these things, these silly things
you do, I definitely get what Mae's

doing.

Did you know that I was like, oh, my
God, am I ready?

To be a production designer? Yeah, will
I be good? We both did it on a short,

but, like, you're a first -time feature.
I would be a first -time feature

production designer.

I figured because I was nervous about
directing for the first time that you

would be nervous about production
designing, but I naively thought, like,

much harder could it be directing a
feature?

I was really scared honestly like at the
beginning I mean you know Domi was

intimidating right I mean she's
seriously you were like super talented

don't be a diva no I was never worried
about that and it was good too because

you also made me kind of having done
this for a while like you question

that I hadn't questioned in a while so I
started in May of 97

at Pixar on A Bug's Life.

I'd worked in traditional animation, but
at the time, CG animation was a

completely different ballgame.

I just remember I would have this
notepad and I would just write down

I was like, is the render farm a zoo?

What's a cookie?

Can I have a cookie? They're like, no,
you cannot. A cookie is not the cookie.

was kind of like, here we go.

Welcome to my questions.

Danielle was definitely somebody that I
sought out and would not judge you and

give you a nice, clear and concise
answer.

When we export Act 3, is there a way to
do one that just has music?

One of the things I love most about
Pixar is that I'm still asking questions

with the same amount of freedom and
safety as I did on the first day I got

It's just kind of a philosophy that I've
kept, and it's something I like to

encourage other people to do as they're
starting on something. It's just, if you

don't know, you're probably not the only
one in the room who doesn't know. So

ask. We basically started these this
morning, so be gentle.

A little bit before I was asked to be
the DP on WALL -E, I thought, oh, I

know if I could ever be a DP. Maybe like
in 10 or 15 years.

Wow, that's great. This one we lit in
five minutes.

And then Andrew Stanton asked me to be
the DP on WALL -E.

And I was terrified because I didn't
think I knew how to do that at all.

I mean, I think we both credit Andrew to
a big degree, frankly.

We both had this encouragement neither
one of us would have asked for until he

kind of said, no, I want you to come do
this. It was an amazing experience. It

was also, you know, half the time
terrifying of just trying to figure out

kind of hang on to who I was and make it
through, even though a lot of times

that felt like I didn't know what I was
doing.

But what we then decided to do is some
look stuff that's sort of like, how do

get out of the Pixar look? How do we get
into some new thing?

We were trying to push the boundaries of
style in both storytelling, in the

camera, the look of things. Using some
hand -drawn elements, but then you

sprinkle in Asian art influences.

It's been so interesting to take those
pieces and figure out how you can apply

them to a 3D computer animated film.

For me, I really wanted to be a VFX
supervisor that was making sure that

had the room to bring their very best,
not telling people what to do, but

space for them to shine.

And I have to say, honestly, a lot of
that has started with Rona because she

the most collaborative production
designer I have ever worked with far and

And I think it's made a huge difference
to the movie and to people's enjoyment

of making the movie.

And this is the trust and the confidence
I gained.

This isn't just our first concert.

This is our first step into womanhood.
And we have to do it together.

Mae's friends are Miriam, Abby, and
Priya. And they're for dork squad.

They accept her no matter what, red
panda or no panda.

I always saw that as the metaphor for
when I found my squad.

I love that May has these key
friendships.

I very much am that person myself.

I always was the kid who had like two or
three best friends.

Those kind of quirky, dorky people who
made you laugh.

Equally insecure about what was going on
in high school. We'd get invited to the

party and we'd be like, oh, okay, cool.

And then we'd drive over to the party,
and we'd sit outside for a minute, and

then we were like, let's go get a cake.

And then we'd eat a cake, like a whole
cake, in the car, and then go home.

It was about friends that listened to
that moment when you were like, I'm not

comfortable going in, or I'm not
confident enough to do this, and all I

want to do is go hang out with you guys.

Hi, sorry I'm late.

Figuring out how to be comfortable in
the room and finding my voice took a

while. When I first started, I was
definitely more nervous.

I was one of the few women in the story
department.

What helped a lot for me was a female
story artist support group called the

Story Artistas, led by Mary Coleman and
Nicole Grindle. They were like, yeah, I

want you guys to get comfortable stating
out loud what your goals are.

And I think that was, like, one lunch
where, like, I, like, meekly said out

loud, like, I want to be a director.

Oh. Oh, yeah, I'm really feeling that
anger.

She's, like, launching herself up.
Sorry, I'm not.

You could play Ming a little bit more in
slow -mo as well.

Yeah, otherwise it's looking good.
Anyone else have thoughts?

Notes? Mimi, there you are. Hey, Mom.
You're ten minutes late. What happened?

Are you hurt? Are you hungry? Um, Ming
is, like, like a force to be reckoned

with.

She's just a sweet, innocent child. How
dare you take advantage of her? When

Sandra Oh became the voice of Ming, it
just felt like her character is starting

to flesh out. I knew you were trouble.

Sandra's so funny, but she also has so
much range. She added that missing piece

to the puzzle of Ming.

I have a double -jointed elbow. Look, I
can make a perfect circle.

That was great.

I think in terms of design, you want her
to have the really powerful shoulders

with these, like, thin eyebrows, kind of
like Chinese ladies from, like, the 60s

with the qipao.

Like I wanted traditional Chinese mixed
with, like, working girl.

We definitely couldn't have written Ming
without, like, input from Lindsay and,

like, other moms on the show.

I came at it purely from the point of
view of, like, the oppressed teenage

daughter.

So it was really helpful, like, hearing
the other side.

You don't know everything. Like, you're
making it up as you go along.

What I love about Ming is that she's not
kind of one -sided cookie -cutter

character, and certainly not as a mom.
And as a mom myself, I can appreciate

those moments.

Thanks, Lonnie.

Mm -hmm.

So will you remind me before we sit down
to dinner to RSVP for your fall

festival? Yeah.

You're having conversations that you are
like, is this even the right

conversation to be having? Am I supposed
to be playing more of a mom role? I

don't even know what that is. You're
talking about heartbreak and dating

insecurity and body image.

I know how I feel about all those
things, and yet I don't know what I'm

to say about any of them. I don't know
if I'm supposed to pretend I don't have

those issues or if I'm supposed to say I
had all of them.

We always joke that, you know, your poor
oldest kid is like the first pancake.

You're like, oof, sorry, dude.

I'm pretty sure we're messing this up.

The third one, we should be good. The
third one, she's going to have nothing

complain about. You guys, the RSVP
thing's closed.

Mom!

Okay. Yeah,

apparently, but that's okay.

Ready? Yeah.

In a way, parenting overwhelms me much
more than my job does.

And I think it's just because I feel
like the stakes are so much higher.

Every choice you make as a parent.

has equal chances of being this great
memory and a success in your

with them, or alternatively, this huge
disaster that they will talk about for

the rest of their lives is the most
embarrassing thing that ever happened to

them.

Both have worked very hard at our
careers, and we are late mommies, and so

think both of us have a huge amount of
regard for how important our work and

career is, and so we try to protect that
for one another.

On Fridays, Paige is here with the kids.
We don't have the nanny.

And, you know, I sort of have this,
like, oh, any spare moment I have, I

be running out to help, and, like, she
has zero expectation of that.

That's made it so much more doable to be
able to kind of balance the two things.

Not that it's always easy or something,
but that makes a huge difference.

You know,

it's really amazing. Like, those kids
right now, they're almost 17 months.

Maybe you can hear Jack crying in the
other room.

That's a little heartbreaking because I
want to go run and help.

It is a massive luxury to be able to see
my kids as much as I have.

during this last year plus like i never
ever would have been able to see them as

much i would have been racing home from
work just to catch them going to bed

sometimes i get to catch them for dinner
i always get to put them to bed

you know it's not like you can ever get
that time back

I think it took until screening six for
us to finally have an ending.

And that, I think, was because it took a
long time for me to process my own

relationship with my mother and just
trying to figure out how to be a good

daughter for them.

I also don't know what the solution is
in real life.

Like, is it about being true to yourself
or is it about honoring your parents? I

don't know.

It's some messy mix of both.

There's no clear answer.

Before I was a mom, it just didn't occur
to me how hard it would be.

I don't know how people do it, and I
don't even know how I'm doing it right

My mom has been such a huge supporter of
what I want to do, and she just

always believed that I know what's best.

That gave me so much freedom to be the
artist that I am today

Growing

up my parents separated and

striving for perfection came from this
feeling of like I just want to be good

enough to keep my dad and my mom and
maybe if maybe if I was a perfect

little girl. My parents would be
together.

Yeah.

And it worked out in the best possible
way for me. I feel like

it made me ambitious ever since I had a
baby. My worth, who

I am, is no longer so much tied to
others.

I just feel like I am a whole being and
I'm solid.

I think anyone being able to tell kids
as they're growing up and going through

this sort of chaos of emotion or feeling
out of control or do my parents love me

or can I be who I want to be and they'll
still love me or who am I and what do

the other kids want me to be?

We need art in general and especially
things that go on a screen that kids can

see to tell them that it is okay.

And I think it's also for parents it's
okay to see.

All of that craziness and that it's a
natural part of life that you've got to

wade through to form who you really are.

And then she realizes, I'm

my own person. I want to embrace this
thing that every other member of my

has tried to lock away.

When she becomes this red panda, It at
first glance represents everything she

doesn't want to be. Her being different
and standing out and feeling like she

can't control herself or the situation
the way she used to be able to.

You can't go through life and become the
amazing person you're supposed to

become if things don't conspire to rock
that sense of stability.

When you say to embrace the red panda, I
think that represents being okay with

that part of yourself.

It's okay not to be in control all the
time. It's okay to be messy. It's okay

be loud. It's okay to be noticed.

If you don't accept it, it's a curse.
And then if you embrace it, then it's a

gift that keeps on giving.

I mean, for May, once she embraced it,
her whole life opened up to her.

The last year plus with the pandemic has
been unlike anything.

any of us have experienced. It's been
incredibly difficult. It's been very

stressful. And for me, this is the
funniest movie I've ever worked on. And

even at just that level, people get to
have some laughs, I think that would be

amazing. But it also has this much
deeper thing of really being able to

out and say, It's okay.

Like, if you're confused and feeling
crazy and you don't know who you are and

you might let your parents down or you
might let yourself down, that's sort of

natural part of growing up. And if that
could be what we provide for, I think,

even one kid out there, that would be
really amazing.

Darren made a teeth yesterday.

Look, your teeth are on camera.

I love how you guys designed it.

In there?

Yeah.

When these dogs come in here and start
snoring so loudly, like to the point of

like...

to be a lawfully wedded spouse?

I do.

Congratulations, United.

Good boy.

You got it?

Good job.