Screen Rant is happy to premiere an exclusive teaser clip from the newest episode of Disney+’s Bridging the Gap, featuring the cast and creators of Turning Red. In the YouTube series, Disney+ filmmakers, animators, creatives, and talent join host Brea Baker to have open and honest conversations about their lives, careers, and hopes for the future.
Previous episodes of Bridging the Gap have featured the creative team behind the Disney+ series, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, to discuss how essential Black perspectives are to reframing Black narratives and how they continue to prove how stories that authentically depict Black experiences and familial dynamics are vital to the portrayal of Black lives on screen. Raya and the Last Dragon creatives Yasser Hamed, Rebecca Perez, and Qui Nguyen have also appeared on the series to share how their experiences as first-generation and second-generation Americans have shaped their lives and careers.
In this exclusive teaser clip of the newest episode of Bridging the Gap, host Brea Baker sits down with Domee Shi (Director), Lindsey Collins (Producer), Rosalie Chiang (Talent), and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Talent) from Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red to discuss the power of coming-of-age narratives. They discuss the importance of having multi-dimensional female leads in coming of age stories, in order to resonate with all girls who are navigating that pivotal time in their life.
This month on “Bridging the Gap,” host Brea Baker sits down with Domee Shi (Director), Lindsey Collins (Producer), Rosalie Chiang (Talent), and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (Talent) from Disney and Pixar’s #TurningRed to discuss the power of coming-of-age narratives.
Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she “poofs” into a giant red panda.
Directed by Academy Award-winner Domee Shi (who directed the Pixar short Bao) and produced by Lindsey Collins, Turning Red was released on March 11 on Disney+ to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Currently sitting at a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, critics have praised its ability to tackle and make understandable complicated emotions, with Screen Rant's Turning Red review "emotionally resonant," something at which Pixar has developed quite the knack for.
The newest episode of Bridging the Gap will premiere on Thursday, March 17 at 9 am PT/12 pm ET on the Disney+ YouTube channel, and Turning Red is currently streaming on Disney+.
