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‘Toy Story 5’ Co-Director Kenna Harris on Going From Jessie Superfan to Pixar Filmmaker — and the Two-Week Rewrite That Reshaped the Sequel

A two-week rewrite shifted the sequel’s focus to Bonnie’s loneliness and made Jessie’s emotional history central, according to Harris.

Summary by Variety
Long before co-directing Pixar’s “Toy Story 5,” Kenna Harris spent childhood afternoons drawing Jessie, painstakingly reproducing details from “Toy Story 2” and even imagining Woody offering the cowgirl a flower. Decades later, the character helped Harris navigate a daunting first feature — including a two-week production pause to overhaul a story that was not yet […]

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Variety broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Friday, October 16, 2026.
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