The cast and crew of Pixar’s Finding Dory were part of a talk at Google recently when one attendee asked Ellen Degeneres how she learned to speak whale.
This experience gave Ellen Degeneres an intimate, if unwanted, familiarity with the sounds of whales, so when Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton asked Ellen if she would “speak whale” for the film, she knew exactly what to do.
One of the most humorous scenes in Pixar’s hit Finding Nemo involves Ellen Degeneres’ Dory attempting to “speak whale.”
The whale speech makes a comeback in this weekend’s sequel Finding Dory, and we actually learn how Dory learned the language, but the story about how Ellen learned the language is an even better one.