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It’s Panda-Monium!

BEING 13 WAS NEVER EASY AT THE BEST OF times, but most of us didn’t have to worry about spontaneous, uncontrollable transformations into a wild animal. Spare a thought, then, for the teen protagonist of Pixar’s latest movie: Mei finds herself turning into an oversized red panda whenever she gets angry or excited.

“As I did more research about red pandas, I found a lot of interesting parallels between them and the character in the movie,” director Domee Shi tells

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