With Sci-Fi Wire, Zooey Deschanel reflects on her experience as a voice actress for Sony Pictures Animation’s 2007 project Surf’s Up. “It’s awesome, because they bring us in [together]. I think it’s the first animated movie where they bring all the actors in all together. Usually, you record your parts separately,” says Deschanel, who plays Lani, a lifeguard penguin, in the film. “They bring us, … like, me, Jeff Bridges and Shia LeBeouf into a room, and we get to improvise. It’s been a great acting experience.”