At one point, Mei calls a boy at her school named Tyler a "jerkwad" and later tells her friends to "shut up" when they freak out over her turning into a red panda. The main character rebels ...

Pixar’s “Turning Red” (which premieres exclusively ... It all just came from our main character Mei Lee and just wanting to design the world through her eyes. And she is this bubbly, excited ...

Pixar’s animated comedy, Turning Red, features a diverse cast with a main character tackling teen issues that we can all relate to. Directed by Chinese-Canadian Domee Shi, the film celebrates ...

With Turning Red, director Domee Shi revisited ... SHI: I also felt like both me and Lindsey could speak to each of the main characters in the movie, like Meilin and her mother Ming.

It’s one of the first few times I — and many others — saw themselves as a main character. Disney/Pixar Meilin (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) in a scene from the Pixar movie “Turning Red.” ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Pixar’s “Turning Red” premiered this month on Disney+ with what looks like a ...

After bringing home an Oscar in 2019 for her animated short Bao, Domee Shi returned to her well of childhood experiences for Turning Red ... Using Mei as a surrogate character, Shi replicates ...

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(KABC) -- Meilin Lee and her mother, Ming Lee, from Disney and Pixar's "Turning ... characters such as Mulan and Mushu. In the 2022 animated film, Mei is a 13-year-old who transforms into a giant ...

The directors of 'The Sea Beast,' 'Strange World' and 'Wendell & Wild' detail the looks of their young animated characters including ... His vest is deep blue with red trim.

Domee Shi has been on the ride of a lifetime with her feature directorial debut, "Turning Red." In the year since ... that some of the other film's other characters live on in some form ...