The Canadian director of Pixar's latest outing 'Turning Red' points to innumerable elements that could have torpedoed her mission to spotlight a Chinese-Canadian girl in Toronto wrestling with puberty.
TORONTO -- The Canadian director of Pixar's latest outing "Turning Red" points to innumerable elements that could have torpedoed her mission to spotlight a Chinese-Canadian girl in Toronto wrestling with puberty.
"I pitched two other ideas that weren't this personal or Canadian, so they had others to choose from," Shi notes in a virtual press junket from Toronto with some of her cast. "I really wanted to go back in time and unpack what was going on during puberty not just from my perspective, but also from my mom's perspective, and analyze this phenomenon in a fun and interesting way," she says.
"I'm just so pleased to be a part of that storytelling in fleshing out the complicated relationship between a mother and a daughter, and that Ming is a full-fledged character," Oh says. Shi calls the film "a love letter for myself and for girls that are growing up with all of the messiness that it entails."
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