Finding Dory: Kate Rodger seeks her inner beluga whale

(Pixar)
(Pixar)

Have you ever wondered what a beluga whale with a Kiwi accent sounds like?

Yeah, us neither -- but Newshub's entertainment reporter Kate Rodger recently got the chance to lend her voice to Finding Dory character Bailey the beluga, and the results are hilarious.

Finding Dory: Kate Rodger seeks her inner beluga whale

Kate Rodger has a go at voicing Bailey the beluga

The neurotic whale is voiced by Ty Burrell in the animated Pixar film, which was released in New Zealand cinemas this week.

Burrell's advice before Kate got behind the mic?

"You have to get comfortable with looking a little bit like Joe Cocker," he said.

"At a certain point, you have to let loose. To find these certain sounds, your body has to go a little nuts. Hopefully you're in there with people who aren't going to make fun of you too much."

Watch the video to see what happened when Kate became Bailey.

Newshub.