We’ve got quite a wait until we get to see Finding Dory in theaters but in the meantime Disney-Pixar is here to tease us endlessly with new trailers and reveals.
In the much-anticipated sequel to Finding Nemo, Dory is off on her own adventure to find her family after years of separation. We’ve got familiar faces (and voices) returning like Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, Albert Brooks as Marlin, and Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, the song-happy stingray teacher.
But today we learned a little more about the new faces and voices and it’s certainly chock full of recognizable names. Ed O’Neill voices Hank, an octopus with only seven legs who excels at camouflage. Kaitlin Olson plays a whale shark named Destiny, a clumsy swimmer with a big heart.
My first thought about Kaitlin Olson is always that incredible scene from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where she dances along with the inflatable tube man, so a clumsy swimmer seems to suit her perfectly. Ty Burrell voices Bailey, a beluga whale with a flair for the dramatic and a tendency towards hypochondria. Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy play Dory’s parents, Jenny and Charlie. And aside from some awkward American Pie scenes, who wouldn’t want Keaton and Levy as their parents?
Idris Elba and Dominic West feature as a pair of lazy sea lions named Fluke and Rudder. I can only hope that the wonderful people at Pixar slip a The Wire joke in one of their scenes. Plus, Bill Hader and Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live veterans, make a cameo appearance as a fish couple that Dory runs into. Rounding out the characters are Hayden Rolence as Nemo (the original voice, Alexander Gould, has naturally hit puberty since 2003), Torbin Bullock as a kooky loon named Becky, and Andrew Stanton and Bennett Dammann as beloved sea turtles Crush and Squirt.
Finding Dory hits theaters June 17th.
