'Turning Red' director Domee Shi talks potential sequel for the Oscar-nominated film.
"When I pitched it, I was super excited about this chance to just show how you can tell a super-specific story about this Chinese-Canadian girl going through magical puberty and have it resonate with ... everyone all over the world," she explained, "because we've all had that experience of just waking up one day and being like, 'What happened to my body?'"
Given the positive reaction to "Turning Red," Shi said she is open to a sequel focused on Meilin, saying, "I would love to continue the story in some way.""I want to see how this red panda affects her into adulthood, into her own motherhood," she teased. Shi said it's her hope that some of the other film's other characters live on in some form, specifically calling out 4*Town, the boy band Meilin and her friends are obsessed with.
"I also just love, like, all of the characters that we've created in the movie, like 4*Town, our own boyband," she said. "I kind of want to see them stay alive after the movie's done as well. Your characters are kinda like your children and you kind of want to see them grow and you want to see what happens to them next."Watch the 2023 Oscars live from the Dolby Theater on Sunday, March 12 at 8 p.m.
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