TURNING RED 4*Town Behind The Scenes Featurette

Pixar's official Turning Red behind-the-scenes, featurette, clips & trailer! Young actress Rosalie Chiang lends her voice to Mei Lee, a 13-year-old who suddenly poofs into a giant red panda when she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS). Sandra Oh (The Chair, Killing Eve) voices Mei Lee’s protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, who is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. Directed by Shi and produced by Lindsey Collins, Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red releases March 11, 2022.

Film clips provided courtesy of Disney/Pixar.


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ABOUT THE MOVIE
Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda! Directed by Academy Award® winner Domee Shi (Pixar short “Bao”) and produced by Lindsey Collins “Turning Red releases on March 11, 2022.

According to “Turning Red” director Domee Shi, if you set a 13-year-old girl’s coming-of-age story in the early 2000s, it’s pretty much mandatory to include a boy band. “We needed our character Mei to be obsessed with something that her mom would not approve of,” said Shi. “Boy bands were the first step into the world of boys for a lot of girls that age. The guys were all super pretty, polished, soft and loving, and they had of way of bringing girls and their besties together. Plus, I thought it’d be really cool to create an animated boy band.”

Enter Pixar’s first-ever boy band, 4*Town. Filmmakers called on GRAMMY®-winning singer-songwriters Billie Eilish and FINNEAS to write the fictional band’s songs—three in total, including the song “Nobody Like U” featured in the new trailer. “When we first started talking about Billie Eilish and FINNEAS—back before they’d won a billion GRAMMYS—we could see then how they had their finger on the pulse,” said producer Lindsey Collins. “We were big fans. We met with them and pitched this crazy idea of a boy band, asking if they’d be interested in writing and producing the songs. They were!”

GRAMMY®-, Oscar®- and Emmy®-winning Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson (“Black Panther,” “The Mandalorian”) is composing the score for “Turning Red.” “I’ve been a fan of his for a while,” said Shi. “We were drawn to his versatility—he’s a composer, but he also produces pop music. We knew he would help us create a very unique sound.”

Joining previously announced Rosalie Chiang and Sandra Oh, who lend their voices to Mei and her mother Ming, are Orion Lee as the voice of Mei’s dad, Jin, and Wai Ching Ho as the voice of Grandma. Mei’s tightknit group of friends are voiced by Ava Morse as Miriam, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Priya, and Hyein Park as Abby. Tristan Allerick Chen voices classmate Tyler, and Addie Chandler lends his voice to Mei’s secret crush Devon. Providing the harmonious voices of the members of 4*Town are Jordan Fisher, Grayson Villanueva, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo and Finneas O’Connell. Rounding out the voice cast are James Hong, Lori Tan Chinn, Lillian Lim, Mia Tagano, Sherry Cola, Sasha Roiz and Lily Sanfelippo.

[MP-kjur]

They should really make a movie about 4*Town

[meli]

All of those songs were actually so catchy. They needa b released

[ItsLycheee]

I love how Aaron T and Aaron Z were kind of just there😂😂

[novacaino]

A whole featurette about the band and doesn't mention the singers who actually sing the songs. wow

[Cantetinza]

I have to say I know 4Town was fictional, but even I was swooning. Her Mom was hilarious, but reminded me of my own mother. Oh gracious.

[soldecle]

And aron z and aron t are also really talented

[hype]

Can you guys pleaseeee make a movie surrounded by 4 town. It can be a movie that really highlights early 2000s boy bands and 4 town can be the stars. I feel like it would be a hit.

[jenniekim]

Ok but why taeyong is literally Jimin from BTS

[benzeybeth]

The fact that 4*town is inspired by BigBang, 2PM and Backstreet Boys show how iconic they are

[sandraarjona]

its just me or the boy of the store looks alike changbin of stray kids?

[lofvee]

one of them remind me of BTS Jimin so much lol

[imakeSKZstay]

I absolutely LOVE this movie so much because it reminds me of me. I love Kpop and the fact that the girls are absolutely in love with a boy band (with 2 of the members actually looking like kpop idols and one of them with an idol name) it just makes me think of myself. I am a multi-stan but my ult group is Stray Kids. Also in the movie, I really found it cool that one of the members of 4 Town has a name of Taehyung, which is V from BTS. So this movie just screams my life lol 😂❤

[ihtegiselle]

Honestly this movie was actually really good

[niyosha_a]

When she said we are 4townies it reminded of being bts army 🥺

[kingjb]

Im a 4*Townie for life, they make me want to join a boy band

[allydean-ikon]

The dance looks just like bigbang lalalala 😩🤣💕

[buberrycrunch]

Someone got mad at me, because I said "I still can't believe billie and finneas wrote the songs" and she called me a liar 😭 I even told her Finneas voiced one. Like girl, it's not hard to do research.

[gleewhyy]

Deberían hacer como kda, osea un grupo aparte de la película no se cómo explicarlo

[SholaOmotosho-kmun]

Its giving so much k-pop vibes k-pop fans will know what i mean and the way the girls are litt crushing over 4*town it makes it think of me am just like the girls crushing over a boy group called Enhypen

[Rushplays]

4 TOWN?!
When there’s 5 BOYS IN THE BAND?!