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Like many great Pixar films before it, brand new feature Turning Red<\/a> tells a universal story rooted in the specific, exploring puberty from the perspective of a Chinese Canadian tweenager in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n The film \u2013 which has now been released exclusively on Disney Plus \u2013 goes to great pains to recreate that specific setting, with director Domee Shi inspired by her own experiences growing up.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was really fun,\u201d she explained to RadioTimes.com<\/a> when asked about bringing the period to life. \u201cI mean, I have nostalgia and fondness for the early 2000s, and I feel like it\u2019s actually coming back now. I feel like teens now embrace the early 2000s once again.<\/p>\n \u201cI just love how that era was so like\u2026 it\u2019s the beginning of the internet, that y2k kind of aesthetic. You would burn CDs for your friends and like mix CDs for your friends, you know, try to mate your Tamagotchis together.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was like a thing I remember. That technology was like just coming in. But it wasn\u2019t like everybody was on social media at the time. I just felt like that was just a really rich period to kind of tell this story.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd especially at that age, like if you told it now there\u2019s no way to tell it without talking about social media and the influence of that,\u201d added producer Lindsey Collins. \u201cSo to tell it kind of pre-that, that kind of introduction allowed it to be a simpler and more relational story, right?<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like, what matters to her are her friends and her family, not what everybody else in the world has to say. So I think that allowed it to be kind of a simpler and more kind of intimate portrayal of what it is to be 13.\u201d<\/p> At a press event prior to the launch of the film, the creative team outlined some of the things they did to make that setting come across \u2013 from Mei\u2019s denim skirt to her obsession with fictional boyband 4*Town to the presence of flip phones, CDs and jelly bracelets.<\/p>\n But one other key area in which the time period was brought to life was in the music, with prolific film composer and music producer Ludwig Goransson brought in to score the film.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition to his prowess in movie scores, he\u2019s also a music producer who has worked with, you know, Childish Gambino, Justin Timberlake, Adele, Lizzo, to name just a few,\u201d Collins explained. \u201cSo he brought this perfect mix of traditional score and also a deep early 2000s pop knowledge to the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n And he wasn\u2019t the only prominent musician to play a big role in the finished film \u2013 pop sensation Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O\u2019Connell also wrote songs for the film. And although Eilish would only have been an infant at the time the film was set, Collins said she was a perfect fit.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we started thinking about songwriters who could capture the early 2000s sound and bring something fresh to it, Billie\u2019s name came up,\u201d she explained.\u00a0 \u201cAnd after further research with the Disney music team, we had a better sense of Finneas and Billie and their influences, their style, and figured why not start with our dream choice?\u201d<\/p>\n Turning Red is out now on Disney Plus. You can\u00a0sign up to Disney Plus for \u00a37.99 a month or \u00a379.90 a year<\/a> now.\u00a0<\/strong>Visit our\u00a0Movies<\/a>\u00a0hub for more news and features and find something to watch tonight with\u00a0our\u00a0TV Guide.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n By Patrick Cremona Published: Friday, 11 March 2022 at 12:00 am Like many great Pixar films before it, brand new feature Turning Red tells a universal story rooted in the specific, exploring puberty from the perspective of a Chinese Canadian tweenager in the early 2000s. 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