Director Domee Shi is excited as she discusses one of her favorite scenes from her first feature: when Meilin Lee, her 13-year-old protagonist, "goes down her lusty drawing spiral under her bed with her sketchbook."
After regarding a mindless doodle of a boy she had drawn in the corner of her homework, Mei suddenly gets up from her desk, rolls under her bed and starts frantically drawing picture after picture of her neighborhood crush. The spell is broken only by a knock on her door by her mother.
It's just one of the glimpses into the world of nerdy tween girls that Shi was thrilled to bring to life for "Turning Red," the 25th feature from Pixar animation and the first directed solely by a woman. It launched Friday on Disney+.
