We Talk To Pixar’s Elemental Leads & Director About Emotions, Immigration, & More

Pixar's Elemental is part fantastical cityscape involving elemental beings, immigration life subtext, and a romance sparking between a fire and water person, and how that ends up working. You can thank actors Leah Lewis (Ember) and Mamoudou Athie (Wade) who brought both opposing characters to life with their voicework, and also director Peter Sohn ...

Elemental’s Director Peter Sohn On How His Own Romantic Experiences Inspired The Movie

Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur, Partly Cloudy short) and produced by Denise Ream (The Good Dinosaur, Cars 2), the is set in Element City, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The story introduces a fire elemental named Ember, who is a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-wi...