From voice acting to stage improv, there are no boundaries to what American actress Amy Poehler can achieve.
The 15-time Emmy Award nominee started out in New York City in 1996 after becoming part of the improvisational comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, later to be known as Comedy Central.
Since then, she has starred in hit after hit, including Parks and Recreation, Mean Girls and countless episodes of Saturday Night Live.
When Poehler was asked to be a part of director Pete Doctor's latest Pixar film Inside Out, she couldn't say no.
The film follows young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy (Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger, Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
"To be able to voice the role of Joy, it literally filled me with so much joy," says Poehler. "It was not hard to get excited and to keep that excitement when I was doing it".
"When I found out, they told me I was playing Joy, and the setting is the head of an 11-year old girl - it's going to be really funny, but guess what? You're going to cry and cry and cry."
Poehler says that she had a "very good sense that from when they presented the idea of the film to me, that I'd never seen anything like that".
"It was so beautiful and I also just love how so much animated stuff and films in general are all about really external stuff, like chases, bad guys, super heroes and the world ending - those are great, but Pixar decided to go in, which in like the new frontier."
Inside Out opens in New Zealand June 25.
Watch my full interview with Pohler.
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