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Ellen DeGeneres Says ‘Saving Nemo’ Saved Her Career

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 04:39 PST, Jul 16, 2016

Ellen DeGeneres, like so many other celebrities, has joined in on the Pokemon Go craze. According to Yahoo!, Ellen DeGeneres shared a makeup-free selfie with her wife Portia De Rossi using Pokemon Go.

“Had to look for a long time for this one.”

The mobile game is a big hit, winning over fans and non-fans of the franchise alike. While most people use the app to find Charmanders and Pikachus, DeGeneres shared a selfie with her wife Portia De Rossi and a Bulbasaur.

Ellen DeGeneres and her wife maintain a very sweet, loving relationship with Portia constantly stating that the secret to their successful marriage is that, before anything else, they are just good friends. DeGeneres and De Rossi maintain a truthful relationship with no room for lies, and they have an agreement to talk to each other about everything and anything.

Ellen DeGeneres and her celebrity wife celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary last fall, yet around the time of the anniversary, breakup rumors were once again circulating in the media. DeGeneres shot the rumors down and reassured everyone that they were still madly in love.

“I don’t read the tabloids, and I don’t have a publicist. I don’t know why they do this. We’re kind of flattered. We really don’t almost break up, we don’t fight, we’re madly in love, and I guess it’s boring.”

Ellen DeGeneres has a strong view on the idea of family. She recently starred in the family film Finding Dory, which opened up the topic of family. According to the Guardian, Ellen DeGeneres sees family as a place of support and not just blood relations.

Finding Dory, the sequel to the smash hit 2003 Finding Nemo, sees Ellen DeGeneres reprising her role as the optimistic fish with a short-term memory disorder, with her character taking the center stage as she tries to recall her early life and how she became separated from her family.

When she was speaking to journalists at the London launch of Finding Dory, the famous talk show host spoke about the film and the idea of family from her perspective.

“Dory is looking for what any child would: where are my mother and father, who are they? But [family] is not about mother and father, it’s not about blood relations; it’s about who makes you feel good, who gets you and supports you, for all that you are. To me, that’s what family and home is: it’s wherever you are supported.”

Ellen DeGeneres also expressed her gratitude over receiving the offer of the role in the original film. During the year of production, she revealed that she had no job offers at the time and, in fact, had not found work for around three years. She was overwhelmed to be offered the role in Finding Nemo, as working in a Pixar film had long been a dream of hers.

Director and co-scriptwriter Andrew Stanton explained that he had written the character of Dory with Ellen DeGeneres in mind after he watched an episode of her sitcom Ellen. Just a year after DeGeneres had come out as gay on The Oprah Winfrey Show, her show was canceled, and the incredibly talented personality inexplicably found herself out of work. Her now famous and infinitely successful talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show made its debut four months after Finding Nemo was released.

Attributing the success of her talk show to her role on Finding Nemo, DeGeneres started a campaign to get a Nemo sequel in the works.

Ellen DeGeneres spoke about the campaign on her show to get a sequel to Finding Nemo.

“If I didn’t have a talk show we wouldn’t be here today. It became content for the show, a running joke. Every sequel that came out for every other movie, it was like: ‘Oh my God, are you kidding me?’ Then my joke was over, because he did the movie. Now I have no more jokes.”

[Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP]

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