It was not even the money - I mean, that's important but - it was just. "I was being attacked for being gay, and nobody would hire me, and so I was out of money. "I was being made fun of for three years," DeGeneres says. But ratings dropped, and the show was canceled.
She had been starring in the sitcom Ellen, and her TV character came out, too. When Finding Nemo came out in 2003, it was Dory, the plucky, forgetful blue fish, who taught us all, in the face of adversity, to "just keep swimming."Įllen DeGeneres, who voiced Dory, says she was "flattered and honored and awed" to have her legacy tied to such a determined and positive little fish.ĭory came along during a particularly tough time for DeGeneres - "I hadn't worked for three years," she tells NPR's Kelly McEvers.ĭeGeneres came out publicly as a lesbian in 1997. Thirteen years after her sidekick role in the animated undersea adventure Finding Nemo, Ellen DeGeneres returns to put her forgetful fish into the lead role in Finding Dory.
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