The REAL Reason The Inside Out Cast Was Replaced 

At least they kept Lewis Black as Anger, he was MADE for that role

The entire point of the first movie was 'don't let chasing joy control everything', and still they lost the cast feeding too much money into 'Joy'😂

Disney must be really struggling financially after only making $31.2bn last year

Fear is Hader and when you literally work with a team to build a character from the ground up based on you in a way so that’s leaves a issue when a recast happens

Disgust sounded the same in the new film. And no offense, but the new Fear sounded nothing like Bill Hader and it was obvious every time Fear spoke

$100,000 for a talent like Hader is such an insult. This is from a company that probably spends that much money on snacks for the break room each year. They expect to make hundreds of millions and they won't even offer 7 digits. WTF?

It's giving how Disney treated Robin Williams after Aladdin

The lesson here is Hollywood pays too much for celebrities and not enough to the people actually making the film. Seriously, 5 million for Amy? That is absurd.

The new Disgust is excellent. Unfortunately... Fear ... not so much

I hate when companies pay more for celebrities than actual talent nowadays (not saying Amy isn’t talented, just generalizing) Exhibit A) Chris Pratt as Mario and Garfield 💀

1:30 “Inside Out proved the studio still had the magic touch for creating original stories, so naturally development of a second installment started almost immediately “ 😂

Disney basically has a monopoly on media in general and still somehow do not have enough to shell out for bill hader and mindy kaling? Gross.

I'm okay with Mindy Khaling being recast but Bill Hader leaving got me pissed

Huh I didn’t notice disgust replacement voice but fear voice change is obvious to me ! Cause I’m big hader fan

I mean, for animation they should just cast top tier voice actors instead of Celebs anyway. You usually would get an even better voice performance (as it really requires a different skillset) for a fraction of the cost of a big 'Name' even if paying the voice actor on the highest level of what most voice actors earn and making it very rewarding for them. Nobody is going to watch Animated movies based on a celebrity name. I don't think they really even did that much before Robin Williams (which, yes was perfect in that instance) in Aladdin and then it seemed to build from there to where it's not just the occasional character voiced by a once in a lifetime charismatic personality like Robin William to having a movie voiced entirely by Celebs, inflating the cost of those movies and denying voice actors the chances to get those really big jobs in your industry.

Disgust's VA turn down to reprise her role (over the salary dispute) and instead had interest working on an new animated TV series based on a well-known IP...… (shows a poster from Velma) and we all know how amazing that turned out.

No more flint lockwood as fear😔

Or, hire actual voice actors for animated movies.

I LOVED Bill Hader as Fear so I'm super disappointed he was replaced tbh.

I just saw the movie last night (Thursday previews and all), and I got used to Disgust’s new VA in no time. However, even though I was laughing at Fear several times, I could never fully get the image of Forky out of my head. So there. That’s my two cents, removed from the payment issues that led to this

Funny in Cantonese version, they only replaced Joy and keep the rests

To be fair Mindy Kaling is absolutely notorious these days.

It ACTUALLY Makes Much More Sense that Mindy Kaling Didn’t Return because of “The Infamous/Notorious Velma Show” which led to us going “Jinkies” in to OUR “Disgust”.

The original voice actor for Riley is really chill (I’ve spoken to her a few times) Shame she wasn’t brought back considering a VA obviously doesn’t have to LOOK the part and plenty of adults can play child animated characters

They made 860 MILLION DOLLARS and was still spending less than 10 million on talent. Joy should have at least made 20 million and the rest 10+ million. Pure greed on the part of Disney.

I admired Bill Hader's voice as Fear, he nailed that role. I'm unsure about seeing the 2nd film because I was quite attached to how he embodied that character.... what an odd choice for the studio to make. I thought it was due to a Tweet or something but just wanting better pay? Come on Disney.

Friendly reminder that Kaling is yet another Hollywood celebrity we’ve let get away with severe misconduct. In her case, she sexually assaulted a co-star, and upon concerns by crew, threatened to use her position of power to fire those who may have reported her. We know this because she joked about it on live TV.

Watched the movie and until this video I had no idea they had changed the cast

I’m not gonna lie, I thought the guy who is playing Fear in the sequel already was the guy who played Fear in the original 😅

Here is an idea, cast voice actors in animated movies to do voice work........ Not hoard all the roles to A listers?

Okay I honestly really loved Tony Hale's portrayal of Fear

I couldn’t get the image of flint Lockwood as fear from the first movie out of my head 😭

5 million and 100k is a huuuuge difference. Disney could actually give 1 million to the other actors that would be fair imo.

This is interesting. As much as I love Hader and Kaling in their respective works, let's not forget that this whole "star power" voice acting thing was a trend that started with Robbin Williams in Aladdin and has since made VO work for actual VO actors very difficult. Don't get me wrong, no one could do what RW did in Aladdin, but in all honesty animation goes overboard with casting celebs to do work that any pro can do. As much as I loathe Disney decisions, I actually understand these. It's an expensive frivolity. Who voiced Belle in Beauty and the Beast? Who voiced Ariel? Tarzan? If it was made today, Belle would be voiced by someone like Taylor Swift, and can you say looking back that's what that film was missing?

I really like Tony Hale as a voice actor. He was great as Forky in Toy Story 4, and I liked him a lot as Doctor Psycho in Harley Quinn. However, he's not Fear. Bill Hader put so much effort into Fear that hearing someone else do the voice is distracting. For Disgust, as much as I loved Mindy Kaling in the first one, the voice work she has done recently has been kinda... not great. I don't like her in Monsters at Work, and I hate her in Velma. Whatever the case may be, it was stupid to recast both of them, because they were both fantastic.

Bill Hader's slightly out of budget ever since Barry!

hireing celebrities for VA has always look a waist of money, just hire professional VA, children would not notice it

Why wouldn't they just evenly distribute the funds amongst the voice talent? Instead of $5M just for Amy, do $1M each. It's still plenty of money.

Maybe unpopular opinion, but 100k seems fair to me for voice-acting a movie. I can't imagine paying an actor 5 million for any role

The question isn’t why we’re fear and disgust paid so low, it’s why was joy paid so much?

Personally, I thought Disgust and Fear's voice actors did very well with their parts in Inside Out 2. Were they perfect? Not really, but they certainly did well enough that I wasn't getting pulled out of the movie by hearing their voices compared to the old ones. But MAN, it is really a shame that Bill Hader had SO much involvement with the creation of Fear, down to helping figure out his design and mannerisms, and that Mindy Kaling actually helped to write some of the originals story, and yet they were low-balled and jettisoned when it was clear they wouldn't stand for that. I love Amy Pohler as Joy (she undeniably nails her role), but I definitely feel like it was a disservice to only provide HER that level of compensation. :(

Buster Bluth as Fear is perfection 🤩

They made 150 million opening weekend, yet wanted to cheap out on extremely talented actors.

Why are they saying that they don't want to pay for expensive actors. They are literally giving amy Poehler 5 million dollars and the others 100 thousand. Joy is a equal role in this film, so unfair

I wonder if Riley's original voice was casted in another character in the sequel like Nemo's first voice actor did since she was too old to reprise her role.

I understand maybe 1 million for Polar but 5 million/100,000 for her costars is insane. Amy couldn't come down 1 million to split among her costars? Or something? Im sorry but thats an INSANE amount of money for a voice actor (whos really just an actor) when there are so many other people who literally MAKE the movie. 😩🤦‍♀️

That’s so strange that they’d low-ball Hader and Kaling, two actors/writers that actually carried caché! Especially since both were leads on hugely popular TV shows

I love iconic animation voice actors as much as anyone, but studios don’t have to fill the cast with live action actors. No need to pay that kind of money when you have super talented animation voice actors that can do the job very well. I understand having an A-List actor to headline the movie, but the surrounding cast does not have to be other popular actors.

the Actors for Joy, Anger, and Sadness in the first movie did return in the second one. Fear's and Disgusts were the only ones that were different

Bill Hader is arguably a bigger name than Amy Poehler and he only got offered 100 bands for a whole ass movie? The disrespect for officer slater is insane

I was really sad when bill hader got recast because his voice is really funny to listen to

I love the fact that it's also a matter of... This is what happens when you try to use live-action actors instead of voice actors.

I didn’t even notice when watching in theaters! But now that you mention it I don’t know how I didn’t catch fears new actor.

I think the animators deserve those 7 digits

It's despicable to recast so many of the emotions because they didn't want to take the smaller wages. Disney is making bank on the release of Inside Out with all the added things like merch and the spotlighting in their parks with Inside Out themed restaurants, but they can't bother to pay their voice actors? Laughable and greedy.

Poehler probably had, like, 20 times the amount of dialogue to record as the other actors. Of course she's going to get compensated significantly more.

1:08 WAIT WHYD I JUST REALIZE PHYLLIS VOICED SADNESS.

Pixar used to be able to get Disney to pay for whatever film they wanted to make because it always turned into gold, but after the huge displacement of old-guard talent, Pixar hasn't made a great movie in years. We can blame Disney for putting their hands in the pot of the chef, and thanks to their meddling, Disney has lost faith in their once golden goose to produce guaranteed hits. Disney unwilling to invest into Pixar is at the fault of Disney.

💲💲💲=JOY Hence, proved

Honestly, and maybe this isn't a popular opinion, but I think both voice actors did just as well or better than the previous actors.

Phyllis only got $100,000 don’t make her call Bob

I watched inside out for the first time Friday, and inside out 2 in theaters Saturday. Literally watched them back to back and I had absolutely no idea they were recast. Made 0 difference to me. I would’ve never known if this video didn’t happen. Crazy how easy it really is for them to replace someone without me noticing. I actually love bill haders stuff too.

I missed both voices in the new movie

Well it didn't work out for Lightyear

Yeah, those in the know of animation news aren’t losing sleep over Mindy not reprising her role. What a terrible and spiteful individual.

2:46 Disgust REALLY makes a face that says "Yeah, not happening".

I didn’t notice the change

In the sequel, I was surprised that Bill Hader, the voice of Fear, got replaced.

I'm not sad Mindy's not back, but Bill Hader only getting 100k is just DUMB.

Hey I like Hader and Kaling but I didn’t even notice😅

I hope Mindy Kaling never gets another role again. Bit sad about Hader though.

I absolutely noticed their absence in the theater and it bugged me the whole time. Mindy Kaling as the embodiment of disgust was genius casting.

Hearing all they contributed for the 1st movie. I respect them. For not returning. Thats jacked up.

Mindy Khaling being recasted is fine by me. After what we know about her, she deserves to be gone from Hollywood. However Bill Hader being recasted was unwarranted.

Recasting actors in sequels because of budget, timing, PR, and/or creative/personal decisions on either side is absolutely nothing new. Look at Rachel in Batman Begins/The Dark Night, Genie in Aladdin/Return of Jafar, Mr. T's police officer character in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts, Abe Sapien in Hellboy, Rhodey in Iron Man, Evelyn in The Mummy/Dragon Emperor... The list goes on and on.

Honestly this might be what animation needs. They don’t need to cast major celebrities ALL the time for marketing purposes. It’s supposed to be about characters, not the people behind them. It’s part of why animation has lost some of its magic. I can’t watch Super Mario Bros without only hearing the famous faces behind the characters, and that’s just one instance. I hear Chris Pratt, not Mario. Seth Rohan instead of Donkey Kong. In Inside Out, I hear Lewis Black and not a separate character. It’s frustrating sometimes to have EVERY CHARACTER be a famous face/voice. Robin Williams knew what was up with that.

While I am bummed Hader won't be returning as Fear, not much of the same can be said for losing Kaling as Disgust, especially after...well, y'know...That show that begins with "V" and can be seen on Max as opposed to a hard-worked-on-and-completed film with a Coyote...

i feel like fear and disgust had perfect actors before

Recasting shouldn’t even be allowed as a negotiating tactic. Everyone involved in a piece of art like inside out is a contributor, and they should be given that credit, and the respect of both being told they’re easily replaceable. They’re not.

I thought fear sounded a little high-pitched but didn't notice the change with disgust. Doubling the cast probably helped to make those changes harder to dwell on.

Disappointed that Mindy and Bill were gone but Liza did such a good Mindy impression that I couldn’t really notice it that well! Ofc they’re still essential though

so good! this video made me turn on notifications for your channel

Inside Out 2 is really a great film, but I'm still disappointed by the absence of Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling, especially Hader.

Hader and Kalling deverved better 💴

Here is an idea for Disney along with the rest of the animation industry: the signal that fans will come back despite the change of voices could be a sign that the audience isn't that concerned with the celebrity behind the voice. There are plenty of super talented voice actors in the industry with lesser names that would be great for animated films, whereas some camera actors sometimes fall flat in a soundbooth. I don't think this is a case for Inside Out, because the voices were a perfect match, but it is too often where these studios bank on actor recognition. Also, never use AI, that is just creatively immoral.

I think Americans place too much importance on the name and celebrity status of voice actors. While some actors contribute significantly to character conceptualization, that is more of a writer role. The voice itself can be replaced, though many might argue otherwise.

Allocating a large fraction of the budget towards celebrity voice talent in animation is a trend that's too common and personally I think we should leave behind. Everyone should be paid fairly. Writers, animators, _and_ voice actors. I understand that Joy is a main character and Fear is not, but if we're gonna continue discussions about fair pay, everyone needs to be a part of it.

At least awkwafina isn’t voicing any of the roles

Imagine being able to talk for 8 minutes to create an answer that only required two words: "pay dispute" 😅

Even though Disgust is my favorite character, Mindy Kaling is not my favorite actress, so I was thrilled with the change. I don't think Fear or Disgust really needed an established actor for their voices, since the movie is focused on Joy, Sadness, and, now, Anxiety.

“Wow” is all that comes to mind

Bill Hader must deeply regret it now that Inside Out 2 made more than an assload of Money... XDXD (Nothing was lost with Kaling gone though!)

They voiced in an Inside Out video game in the past, just imagine Inside Out as an animated series with some of the voices retained

I think there’s at least two factors not mentioned. For Kaling, I think how genuinely dreadful Velma is has killed whatever marquee appeal she may have had. Regardless of how ideal she was for the role (personally, I think she was by far the weakest link in the original cast) there is an extent to which she may now be an albatross to the commercial prospects of any project she’s in because of how strong the anger is towards Velma. For Hader, his time doing Barry has established him as a much bigger talent than he was when he first played Fear. To say it differently, he went from being a cast performer on SNL to being a potential guest host of it, and that level of star power increase likely means a big pay raise, and ultimately may result in it just not making financial sense for Pixar, especially if they can get someone like Tony Hale to replace him (I mean, how can Buster Bluth not be Fear? It seems even more natural to me than Hader was, and also reflects the shifts in both their careers, as Hader’s rise parallels Hale seeing less success since Veep ended). A final thought- I think these changes can work well artistically, as the idea could be that as we age, the nature of our emotions change, so perhaps they can reflect that with the change in actors. Keeping Poehler as Joy is mandatory as she is the protagonist and we need some continuity as an audience, but all the secondary emotions (except for maybe Sadness) could evolve into new versions that are better performed by other performers, even if the originals were perfect for the original (and I find that statement dubious w respect to Kaling).

0:04-0:09 This is where the voices are different.

Part of the charm of Inside Out was the cast! The first movie was such an exciting event. I’m excited for Inside Out 2!

Disney holds the purse strings and therefore Pixar’s hands are tied. Michael Giacchino also did not return to score the sequel, perhaps due to budget limitations as well?

Disney won’t spend money on great voice talent but will spend $200M on a Star Wars show about Lesbian Space Witches?

I gotta say the change took like a minute to get used to. I thought something was off though

The new Disgust works, but I prefer Anxiety so much better over Fear. I like him the least.