Here's How 'Finding Dory' Honored The Original Voice Of Nemo

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FINDING DORY - Pictured (L-R): One year after his big overseas adventure, NEMO (voice of Hayden Rolence) is back to being a normal kid: going to school and living on the coral reef with his dad and their blue tang neighbor, Dory. His harrowing adventure abroad doesn’t seem to have sapped his spirit. In fact, when Dory remembers pieces of her past and longs to take off on an ambitious ocean trek to find her family, Nemo is the first to offer his help. He may be a young clownfish with a lucky fin, but Nemo wholeheartedly believes in Dory. After all, he understands what it’s like to be different. MARLIN (voice of Albert Brooks) may have traveled across the ocean once, but that doesn’t mean he wants to do it again. So he doesn’t exactly jump at the opportunity to accompany Dory on a mission to the California coast to track down her family. Marlin, of course, knows how it feels to lose fa...

By Crystal Bell

June 20, 2016 / 9:31 AM

If you saw Finding Dory in theaters this weekend -- and really, if you didn't, what were you doing with your life? -- then you probably noticed that everyone's favorite little clown fish sounded a little different.

While Dory's story picks up just one year after her ocean-spanning adventure with Marlin, it's actually been 13 years since the release of Finding Nemo IRL. So that adorable kid who voiced Nemo back in 2003? Yeah, he's in his twenties now.

So director Andrew Stanton was forced to cast another young voice -- this time, 12-year-old Hayden Rolence -- as Nemo. But that doesn't mean that the OG voice of Nemo, Alexander Gould, didn't make the final cut of the film. In fact, Gould played a significant part in the film's climatic action sequence.

[Warning: If you don't want to know what happens in Finding Dory, click away now.]

Toward the end of the film, Dory and her cankerous new friend Hank, a septapus, hijack a truck carrying fish from the Marine Life Institute from two very human adults. (We know this defies logic, but just suspend your disbelief for a minute.) One of those adults, Carl, is voiced by none other than 22-year-old Gould, EW points out. Whoa.

The more you know!