Kyle MacLachlan and Diane Lane join Pixar’s Inside Out
In an interview with USA Today, Inside Out writer-director Pete Docter revealed that Kyle MacLachlan and Diane Lane have signed on to voice the parents of the main character, Riley (Kaitlyn Dias). Although the Pixar film largely takes place inside Riley’s mind and focuses on different emotions voiced by the likes of Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, and Mindy Kaling, Docter says that Inside Out also will dive into the parents’ heads. The mind of MacLachlan’s character is similar to a NORAD headquarters operated by mustached men, while the mind of Lane’s character “features emotions wearing her red glasses … who engage in civil discussion à la The View.” Because, for all our liberal didacticism, no one has taught anthropomorphized emotions to move beyond gender stereotypes.