

The rest of the filming took place on two sites about 30 miles from Nairobi. The only scene shot outside Africa was of the hunting party in Denmark, which was actually filmed in Northern England.ĭirector Sydney Pollack says they got lucky when it snowed because it doesn’t snow that often there. Let’s take a look back at Karen Blixen’s house in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills… Her actual home was still standing, but it was being used as a government health training facility and wasn’t available. The film crew added onto the house in order to make it resemble Blixen’s. The house they used in the film was once owned by the widow of Jomo Kenyatta, the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. It’s hard to believe it was filmed in 1985 because all these years later, it feels timeless. Between the challenges of a new house, new city and new school and the growing pains that come with the early days of puberty, her emotions are probably in for a rough ride.Ĭheck out these new stills from Inside Out, courtesy of EW and Empire.Each time I watch the Academy Award-winning romantic drama Out of Africa, I get swept up in the sheer beauty of it all - the scenery, the sets, the music and the love story. The second trailer for Inside Out established that the emotions have the ability to play back and watch memories on a mental projector, as seen in the second image, and Riley may need to call on some happy memories as she tries to navigate life after moving to San Francisco. Docter has been with Pixar for a long time and has writing and directing credits on Up and Monsters Inc. The script for Inside Out was penned by Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt. Speaking to EW, co-director Pete Docter said that Riley's emotions are like " our own version of the Seven Dwarfs,'' and Docter also told Empire that the film is one of the most challenging films that he's ever worked on since it features two stories - one inside Riley's head and one outside it - that run concurrently.


The most recent trailer for Inside Out generated a mix of hype, intrigue and debate over the portrayal of Riley's parents and their own inner emotions (which have the same basic model as Riley's, albeit with the occasional gender-flip). Riley's mom and dad and are voiced by Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan, respectively, while Riley is voiced by newcomer Kaitlyn Dias. Joy (Amy Poehler) is the hyper, ever-cheery ringleader who provides some balance to the rather negative collection of emotions around her: Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader), Sadness (Phyllis Smith) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). Specifically, inside the head of unhappy preteen Riley, where a quintet of emotions watch her life unfold from behind a control panel and dictate her interactions with the world around her. Whereas Pixar's robot romance WALL-E went adventuring out into space, the studio's next big feature Inside Out is all about going (you guessed it) inside.
