Inside Out 2 team were told to make Riley ‘less gay’, Pixar employee claims

The team behind animated hit Inside Out 2 were told to make main character Riley Andersen “less gay”, according to former Pixar employees.

Released in June, Inside Out 2 followed Riley, and the emotions inside her head, as she hits puberty and begins to grow up. Along the way, she meets Val, who many assumed would be her love interest.

But the studio made it very clear that the two were nothing more than friends. And, according to IGN, there was a reason why.

The report, which included interviews with 10 former Pixar employees who were all made redundant after working on the film, detailed “the pains of [those] layoffs, the pressure that surrounded [the film] and larger cultural concerns at the studio”.

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