"They tell us what's right and what's wrong," director Kelsey Mann says of the adolescent focus group, dubbed "Riley's Crew."with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies,, and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books.
Riley heads off to a weekend-long hockey camp, hoping to secure a spot on the high school team, only to discover en route that her two best friends will not be going to the same school as her in the fall. This sends Riley into a spiral, leading her to desperately try to make new friends and impress her potential future coach — until she ultimately breaks down and has a panic attack. Stressful but all too relatable.
"I am not 13 years old anymore," says director Kelsey Mann. "There's still a 13-year-old in me. I can tap into that, but I can only tap into it so much, especially if you want everyone to relate to this. I'm like, 'I need to go straight to the source.' So much of what we do at Pixar is doing our research, and we had some really wonderful people at Pixar that have a lot of connections to organizations outside of Pixar.
"Essentially, we had a Zoom room full of 13-year-old female advisors to watch every screening of the film to give us feedback," explains co-writer Dave Holstein. "Making a Pixar film is an endless conversation with a lot of very smart people that come from all backgrounds, including a room full of 13-year-old girls. We talked to professors and PhDs and all that, but it's an amalgam of people's experiences.
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