'Finding Nemo' Turns 20: Ellen DeGeneres on Voicing Dory and Getting Laughs in Recording Booth (Flashback)
30.05.2023 - 14:13
/ etonline.com
’s enduring legacy just keeps swimming 20 years later, thanks in part to the popularity of Ellen DeGeneres and her scene-stealing performance as Dory, who immediately became a fan-favorite Disney character when Pixar's fifth movie splashed into theaters.«This is weird, because it's really hard for me to watch myself whenever I do anything, but this isn't really watching myself. It's just like hearing myself, which is even worse. You know when you hear yourself on tape?» the comedian joked to ET leading up to the movie’s release on May 30, 2003.
«It's gonna be torture now that I think about it. What am I thinking?»Continuing the great tradition of Disney’s animated movie sidekicks — Jiminy Cricket, Genie, and Timon & Pumbaa, to name a few — DeGeneres was tapped to voice the goodhearted, yet forgetful to a fault Blue Regal Tang fish in Pixar’s love letter to the ocean two decades ago. «It's positive.
It's not violent. It's not negative,» DeGeneres explained at the time. «And yet, I appreciate it and adults appreciate it because it's so clever… It really is a movie that every age group can appreciate on different levels.»The movie’s environment was already an ambitious undertaking for the film's directors (’s Andrew Stanton and ’s Lee Unkrich) from a technical standpoint.
Meanwhile, they also had the difficult task of trying to remain professional as the veteran stand-up comic adlibbed in the recording booth.«My goal would be to make them laugh and I would go and go and go,» the Emmy winner recounted. «I could see that they were trying to stop laughing, because they would be in front of me and then, finally, they would just lose it.»That said, she was all praise when it came to her collaboration with ’s production team. She
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