{"id":324,"date":"2026-02-01T04:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/02\/01\/kate-mckinnon-says-these-2-pixar-films-are-quasi-religious-texts-that-contain-an-ancient-wisdom-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:58:46","slug":"kate-mckinnon-says-these-2-pixar-films-are-quasi-religious-texts-that-contain-an-ancient-wisdom-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/02\/01\/kate-mckinnon-says-these-2-pixar-films-are-quasi-religious-texts-that-contain-an-ancient-wisdom-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon Says These 2 Pixar Films Are \u2018Quasi-Religious Texts\u2019 That \u2018Contain an Ancient Wisdom\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese are tales that speak about time, humanity, life itself,\u201d McKinnon tells PEOPLE of two specific Andrew Stanton-directed Pixar movies<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/pUDmbNKrzQBVezB6QIsGnU4OeWA=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Kate-McKinnon-2026-Sundance-Film-Festival-Finding-Nemo-012926-31589a1a4f7347069886ad71d625a593.jpg\" alt=\"Kate McKinnon at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; a \u2018Finding Nemo\u2019 scene (2003) Isaiah Trickey\/FilmMagic; Disney\/Pixar\" title=\"Kate McKinnon attends the \" \/><figcaption><i>Kate McKinnon at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; a \u2018Finding Nemo\u2019 scene (2003) <\/i>\n<p>Isaiah Trickey\/FilmMagic; Disney\/Pixar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kate McKinnon discussed her appreciation of Andrew Stanton-directed Pixar animated movies exclusively with PEOPLE<\/li>\n<li>Stanton directed McKinnon\u2019s latest project, sci-fi film <em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival<\/li>\n<li><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, also starring Rashida Jones and Daveed Diggs, will be available to stream on Hulu on Feb. 27<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/kate-mckinnon\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Kate McKinnon<\/a> is expressing how much she loves certain <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/pixar-movies-stream-now-11804765\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Pixar movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with PEOPLE in an exclusive conversation at the premiere of her latest project, sci-fi film <a href=\"https:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/program\/film\/6932fb78bd8651648d60fcc3\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em><\/a>, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 26, the 42-year-old actress shared what Pixar animated movies, especially from director Andrew Stanton, mean to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a lifelong fan, absolutely,\u201d McKinnon said of Stanton, 60, who also directed <em>In the Blink an Eye<\/em>. \u201cThe themes of the stories that he tells, to me, the films are quasi-religious texts.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/OGU4JlU6idn-adI41SE334E-kJA=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/Wall-E-012926-1f8ee9fa208946b29836a7117159966e.jpg\" alt=\"A \u2018WALL-E\u2019 scene (2008) Disney\/Pixar\" title=\"WALL\u00b7E\" \/><figcaption><i>A \u2018WALL-E\u2019 scene (2008) <\/i>\n<p>Disney\/Pixar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The<em> Saturday Night Live <\/em>alum continued, \u201cI mean, they contain an ancient wisdom. He is possessed of an ancient wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKinnon mentioned 2003\u2019s <em>Finding Nemo<\/em> and 2008\u2019s <em>WALL-E<\/em> as prime examples of Pixar classics that Stanton has directed and co-wrote.\u00a0Both animated movies won Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are tales that speak about time, humanity, life itself. Absolutely. And this film was no exception,\u201d\u00a0McKinnon said, referring to their 2026 project.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Blink of an Eye <\/em>is a film about \u201cthree storylines, spanning thousands of years, [that] intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life,\u201d according to the film\u2019s description.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/7Ja12qeDx5MGrRPpgh3u_K3bhNo=\/fit-in\/640x480\/Andrew-Stanton-Kate-McKinnon-2026-Sundance-Film-Festival-012926-bb4e16a6833f491e9d0b975ac840ea00.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Stanton and Kate McKinnon on Jan. 26, 2026 Randy Shropshire\/Getty\" title=\"Andrew Stanton and Kate McKinnon attend the \" \/><figcaption><i>Andrew Stanton and Kate McKinnon on Jan. 26, 2026 <\/i>\n<p>Randy Shropshire\/Getty<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">\u00a0PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the movie, McKinnon plays Coakley, who is on a spaceship bound for a distant planet alongside a sentient onboard computer \u201cto confront a disease afflicting the ship\u2019s oxygen-producing plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>In the Blink of an Eye<\/em>, also starring <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/rashida-jones\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Rashida Jones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/home\/hamiltons-daveed-diggs-shows-off-his-colorful-quirky-l-a-home-no-other-place-i-want-to-be\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Daveed Diggs<\/a>, will be available to stream on Hulu on Feb. 27.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese are tales that speak about time, humanity, life itself,\u201d McKinnon tells PEOPLE of two specific Andrew Stanton-directed Pixar movies Kate McKinnon at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 26, 2026; a \u2018Finding Nemo\u2019 scene (2003) Isaiah Trickey\/FilmMagic; Disney\/Pixar NEED TO KNOW Kate McKinnon discussed her appreciation of Andrew Stanton-directed Pixar animated movies exclusively with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}