Halloween is the perfect time to get creative with costumes and bring your favorite characters to life. If you’re a fan of Pixar’s “Inside Out” series and looking for an easy, affordable costume idea, why not dress up as Anxiety from “Inside Out 2”? This guide will help you put together a fantastic costume using simple items that won’t break the bank.
Step 1: Gathering the Basics
1. Clothing
To capture Anxiety’s look, start with the following basic pieces:
- Sweater: Find a orange striped sweater. Here are our recommendations:
Orange Striped Sweater Option 1
Orange Striped Sweater Option 2
Orange Striped Sweater Option 3
- Pants: Pair the sweater with brown pants.
- Shoes:
Step 2: Makeup and Hair
MAKEUP
HAIR
My recommendation for creating an Anxiety wig would be to buy a long, orange wig, cut it up, and use pipe cleaners to stick it up.
2. Attitude
- Body Language: Remember, Anxiety is always on edge. Keep your body language in character by hunching your shoulders slightly and looking around nervously. Practice a few worried expressions to fully embody the character.
Step 4: Budget-Friendly Tips
- Thrift Stores: Many of the clothing items needed for this costume can be found at thrift stores. This is an excellent way to save money and find unique pieces.
- DIY: If you can’t find the perfect scarf or gloves, consider making your own. Old fabric can be repurposed into a scarf, and gloves can be easily crafted from inexpensive materials.
- Reuse and Repurpose: Look through your existing wardrobe for any items that can be repurposed for this costume. You might already have some of the basics, such as the pants or shoes, saving you money and time.
Conclusion
Creating an Anxiety costume from “Inside Out 2” for Halloween 2024 can be both easy and affordable. By focusing on simple clothing items, subtle makeup, and a few key accessories, you can bring this character to life without spending a fortune. With a bit of creativity and resourcefulness, you’ll have a costume that’s sure to impress and perfectly capture the essence of Anxiety. Happy Halloween!
Thank you for taking my recommendations! Here’s a little bit more about Inside Out 2:
Two years after moving to San Francisco, Riley Andersen is now a 13-year-old girl on the brink of high school. Her personified emotions — Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust — are busy managing a new element of her mind called the “Sense of Self.” This crucial area houses the memories and feelings that shape Riley’s beliefs and identity. Joy, ever the optimist, is determined to fill this space with only positive memories. To achieve this, she creates a mechanism that launches negative memories to the back of Riley’s mind.
Riley, along with her best friends Bree and Grace, is excited to attend a weekend ice hockey camp. She hopes to qualify for her school’s team, the Firehawks. However, the night before camp, a “Puberty Alarm” goes off, triggering a clumsy upgrade of the emotion console by the mind workers, leaving Headquarters in chaos.
As the emotions struggle to manage Riley’s reactions, they discover that she is now overreacting to any inputs they make. To complicate matters, four new emotions arrive on the scene — Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui. These new emotions clash with the original ones over how best to handle Riley’s impending teenage challenges. Joy believes Riley should have fun at camp, while Anxiety is fixated on winning a spot on the team and making new friends, especially since Bree and Grace will be attending a different high school.
While Joy is in control, Riley unintentionally gets all the campers punished by the strict camp director, Coach Roberts. Anxiety, believing that Riley needs to change to fit in with the older players, decides to dump the Sense of Self into the back of Riley’s mind. She captures the original emotions and throws them into a memory vault. In their place, Anxiety and the new emotions create a new, anxiety-dominated Sense of Self, encouraging Riley to befriend the popular hockey player Val Ortiz. This shift strains Riley’s friendship with Bree and Grace.
The original emotions manage to escape from the vault. Sadness returns to Headquarters while the others set out to retrieve Riley’s old Sense of Self. Meanwhile, under Anxiety’s control, Riley sneaks into Coach Roberts’ office and learns from her notebook that she isn’t considered ready to become a Firehawk. The original emotions discover the mountain of negative memories deposited by Joy’s mechanism and cause an avalanche that helps them return to Headquarters more quickly, but also causes the negative memories to spill into Riley’s current Sense of Self.
Anxiety realizes that the new Sense of Self she has created for Riley is one filled with self-doubt. This negatively affects Riley’s performance, causing her to accidentally hurt Grace and get sent to the penalty box. Horrified, Anxiety panics and swarms the console in a blinding whirlwind, resulting in Riley having a panic attack.
With the help of Sadness and a reformed Embarrassment, the other original emotions return to Headquarters. Joy finds Anxiety paralyzed but still in control. She convinces Anxiety that Riley doesn’t need to change to have a better future. Anxiety finally relents, and Joy reinstates Riley’s original Sense of Self. However, the panic attack persists. Anxiety, realizing her limitations, admits she cannot define who Riley is. Joy understands that she too cannot dictate Riley’s identity. She removes the first Sense of Self and allows a new one to form from the avalanche of both positive and negative memories.
This new Sense of Self, embracing both the positive and negative, calms Riley. She reconciles with Bree and Grace and finishes the game happily under Joy’s guidance. Riley befriends Val and the other Firehawks at high school while remaining true to herself and maintaining her friendship with Bree and Grace.
Living in peace, the original and new emotions work together to protect Riley, who checks her phone for the Firehawks’ recruitment results and looks at herself in the mirror with a proud smile. This new balance allows Riley to navigate the complexities of adolescence, equipped with a richer, more nuanced understanding of herself.
THE PRODUCTION OF INSIDE OUT 2
Following the success of the original “Inside Out,” which became the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2015, speculation about a sequel quickly emerged. Media outlets like Entertainment Tonight and The Guardian deemed a sequel “inevitable.” Pete Docter, the director of the original film, began brainstorming ideas for a follow-up as early as January 2016, coinciding with the film’s nominations at the 88th Academy Awards. Official development on the sequel started in early 2020, and Pixar confirmed its development during the D23 Expo in September 2022, where Amy Poehler joined Docter on stage to discuss the film. Kelsey Mann was announced as the director, marking his feature directorial debut, with Mark Nielsen producing and Meg LeFauve returning to write the screenplay.
To create a “truthful” world, Mann utilized Docter’s initial idea from the first film of featuring “five to 27 emotions.” Mann’s first attempt included nine new emotions to portray Joy’s overwhelm, but the story became too convoluted. After the first screening, he decided to reduce the number of emotions. Some emotions, like Schadenfreude, Jealousy, and Guilt, were initially included but later removed. However, elements of Jealousy influenced Envy, and Guilt’s aspects were incorporated into Anxiety’s character.
Research and Writing
The production team worked closely with clinical psychologist Lisa Damour and used her books to ensure an accurate portrayal of teenage emotions during puberty. Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who had consulted on the first film, returned for the sequel. He played a crucial role in deciding which new emotions to introduce. A character based on the emotion of shame was considered but ultimately discarded due to Keltner’s view that shame is not an emotion.
To further ensure the film’s authenticity, Pixar enlisted nine teenagers, referred to as “Riley’s Crew,” to provide feedback on the film. Their input led to the inclusion of the emotion Nostalgia and influenced various scenes, including the transition from middle school to high school. Both Nielsen and Mann drew inspiration from their daughters, who were around Riley’s age, especially during the COVID-19 lockdown, which provided them with personal insights into the emotional lives of teenagers.
The original plot for the film centered on a talent show but was scrapped after several test screenings. The team decided to focus on Riley’s involvement in hockey, a unique aspect of her character. This decision was also influenced by input from “Turning Red” director Domee Shi, who suggested making the film stand out from other teenage coming-of-age stories. A scene where the original emotions are locked in a vault was originally longer but was trimmed due to time constraints.
Casting
Amy Poehler reprised her role as Joy for $5 million with lucrative bonuses. Phyllis Smith and Lewis Black also returned as Sadness and Anger, respectively. However, due to a pay dispute, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling declined to reprise their roles as Fear and Disgust, having been offered only $100,000 each, which was a mere two percent of Poehler’s salary. Tony Hale and Liza Lapira replaced Hader and Kaling as Fear and Disgust, respectively, while Maya Hawke joined the cast as the new emotion Anxiety. Mann auditioned Hawke via Zoom during a family vacation, and her performance moved him to tears. In January 2024, June Squibb was announced to have joined the cast, later revealed to voice the emotion Nostalgia.
In March 2024, Disney revealed that Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Paul Walter Hauser joined the cast as the new emotions Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment, respectively. Kensington Tallman replaced Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Andersen, while Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan reprised their roles as Riley’s parents. John Ratzenberger returned as Fritz, marking his first Pixar role since “Onward.” Lilimar joined the cast as Valentina, a hockey player, and Yvette Nicole Brown voiced the hockey team coach. Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green and Grace Lu played Riley’s friends Bree and Grace.
This comprehensive approach to development, research, writing, and casting has laid a robust foundation for “Inside Out 2,” ensuring that the sequel not only lives up to the original but also offers a fresh and authentic exploration of teenage emotions.
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