
The sea lions are already proving to be pretty popular with fans who were lucky enough to get a preview of Finding Dory. Finding Dory is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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The two actors starred together as Jimmy McNulty and Stringer Bell in HBO's enormously popular series The Wire, and many fans will be excited to at least hear the actors together again (even if their roles are vastly different this time around.)ĭirector Stanton's gamble on having wiseguy-style sea lions seems to be paying off, though. "But the truth is, I really wanted to witness a Wire reunion," he adds. "Idris and Dominic are well-trained, dramatic, Shakespearean actors, but they can do comedy like nobody’s business," says Stanton.

Which you just don't hear about every day, do you? He talked to USA Today about his motivation behind finding the voices for Rudder and Fluke: Who wanted East London gangster-style sea lions. And now I'm in love with sea lions, great.ĭirector Andrew Stanton (who also worked on the first film) had a strangely specific vision in mind when picturing the sea lions for this movie. Fluke and Rudder luring Gerald to give him his bucket in exchange for sitting on the rock. Gallery Fluke and Rudder shooing Gerald off. The two sea lions, Rudder and Fluke, were actually voiced by none other than The Wire alumni Dominic West and Idris Elba. In Disney California Adventure, Gerald can be seen in a Finding Dory-inspired billboard at Pixar Pier telling visitors to keep Pixar Pier clean, along with some sea otters, Becky, Dory, and Fluke and Rudder. Once that was introduced, it was like, 'OK, now you have sea lions, now you have otters.' "We knew (Dory) was going to be from the Northern California coast, kind of early on. Producer Lindsay Collins spoke at a press event before the film's release, according to Reuters, about how they created their indigenous sea life characters. So who plays the sea lions in Finding Dory, you ask? You might be in for another pleasant little surprise.įinding Dory is set in Northern California, where sea lions are aplenty.

Like the goofball sea lions, for instance. Although, based on the previews, she's certainly going to have some fabulous supporting characters backing her up.
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In the first movie she felt like a pleasant little surprise, and now she's running the show. The supporting characters are always the best, aren't they? In fact, as excited as I am for Finding Dory, the long-overdue sequel to Finding Nemo that's being released on Friday, one can't help but wonder if being the mail girl will affect the way we see Dory.
