Sandra Oh's favorite TurningRed Toronto detail? The Daisy Mart 👀 'I used to live around the corner from Daisy Mart. They’re very rare! I’ve never seen a Daisy Mart outside of Toronto. What I love about that is the specificity...' 👏
Star Sandra Oh reveals her favorite Turning Red setting detail. The latest Pixar movie was directed by Domee Shi, previously known for her Oscar-winning short film Bao, making it the studio's first to ever be solo-directed by a woman. Following a recent, controversial trend for Pixar releases, Turning Red dropped exclusively on Disney+ on March 11, where it found critical acclaim.
Inspired by Shi's childhood experiences, Turning Red takes place in 2002 Toronto and follows Meilin Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese Canadian girl who opens the movie fully in her element. However, Mei soon discovers that, as the result of a hereditary gift bestowed on an ancestor, she turns into a giant red panda every time she experiences a particularly strong emotion.
Near the start of Turning Red, Meilin starts fantasizing about this young man who works at the Daisy Mart — and I used to live around the corner from Daisy Mart. They’re very rare! I’ve never seen a Daisy Mart outside of Toronto. What I love about that is the specificity, because most everyone has grown up near a corner store where all those kids are hanging out.
Elsewhere in the interview, Oh, who voices Mei's mother Ming, explains how this same sense for storytelling on Shi's part was crucial to capturing Turning Red's mother-daughter relationship. As is often the case for animated movies, Oh and the film's lead, Rosalie Chiang, didn't record their lines together, and so weren't able to tune their performances to each other.
While Turning Red's perspective has been a near-universal source of praise, one controversial review that claimed Shi had sacrificed universality went viral, even catching Shang-Chi star Simu Liu's attention. What Oh's comment illustrates, however, is how the level of period- and setting-specific detail actually allows the movie to explore emotions at the heart of the experience of childhood.
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