How To Train You Dragon stars, Mason Thames and Nico Parker, talk to Melissa Nathoo about how they bonded for the film and where's the weirdest place they've seen their face. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Like a house on fire.
00:02Um, it made me think it got on great when we first met.
00:05The Titanic.
00:06Imagine if I'd been like, oh, I would love to watch the...
00:09Calling him a loser?
00:10Yes.
00:11His name is Destroyer of Worlds.
00:12Good to see you again.
00:13Good to see you.
00:14It's been so long.
00:15It's been so long, and I had missed you.
00:17Listen, what a great surrounding we're in today.
00:20Yeah, this is insane.
00:21It makes me feel a little bit nauseous.
00:23Yeah, for sure.
00:24A little bit.
00:25If I look at the ceiling.
00:26I was going to say, does it take you back to being on set a little bit?
00:30Maybe.
00:31We had blue screens.
00:33This is a lot more immersive.
00:35Yeah, this is way more than we were actually looking at.
00:37Okay.
00:38This would have actually probably been quite nice.
00:39Oh my god.
00:40This was going to visualise.
00:41How are you finding all of this?
00:43Like doing all the press, like going around the...
00:45Yeah.
00:46Stuff like this.
00:47Seeing your face on man yards and all over the place.
00:49Like, is this weird or how are you finding it?
00:52It's definitely new.
00:53It's new.
00:54It is weird.
00:55Yeah.
00:56Versus coming home to London, seeing our faces on a bus was very weird.
00:59Oh yeah.
01:00Have you seen that?
01:01Oh, there's so many of them.
01:02Are there?
01:03Yeah.
01:04Where's the weirdest place you've seen your face so far, Mason?
01:05I don't know.
01:06Just kind of like a billboard in LA.
01:07It's still strange.
01:08Yeah.
01:09It's still very cool.
01:10It's very cool.
01:11And yours is the lanyard.
01:12I see.
01:13Lanyard.
01:14There's a lanyard.
01:15That was crazy.
01:16Mason was on the side of a plane.
01:17I was on the side of a private jet.
01:18What?
01:19That was like the first press rollout.
01:20Yeah.
01:21And I remember me and Mason being like, what is happening?
01:23It's absurd.
01:24Oh my God.
01:25That's amazing.
01:26Yeah.
01:27You're probably not going to get better than that.
01:28Probably not.
01:29I'm like the lanyard is really crazy.
01:30How was the two of you getting on when you first met?
01:35Like a house on fire.
01:37Me and Mason got on great when we first met.
01:40The Titanic.
01:41Thinking.
01:42Thinking.
01:43Thinking.
01:44Yeah.
01:45No, we got on actually really well when we first met and I think it was kind of, I
01:49really do mean this quite seriously and I say this to you all the time, but I could
01:54not have done any of this stuff like press, filming, pre-production, post-production, all
01:59of it.
02:00I couldn't have done it without Mason.
02:01And so it is a kind of amazing, despite the fact that it is tiring and neither of us
02:05have had very much sleep.
02:06It is amazing to get to, you know, come to things like this and be able to celebrate
02:09a film, working with someone that you care about so much and on a project that everyone
02:14loves so much.
02:15It's really, it's very special.
02:16Do you guys do any like, everyone else asks this, like any bonding exercises before
02:20you start filming to make sure you have that kind of chemistry?
02:23That's a lot of movies.
02:24We did watch a lot of movies.
02:25This is true.
02:26Yeah.
02:27What scary movies, rom-coms, like what kind of thing were you?
02:31We did them all.
02:32We did a lot.
02:33We did like a variation from like.
02:34Step Brothers.
02:35Step Brothers.
02:36How to Train Your Dragon.
02:37How to Train Your Dragon.
02:38Backwards.
02:39We started with the third one.
02:40Right.
02:41Then second, then first.
02:42Why?
02:43Don't know.
02:44Did you watch each other's like films that you've been in?
02:46God, no.
02:47No, my God, that's my worst nightmare.
02:48We're not that horrible.
02:49Yeah, we're not like the biggest narcissists.
02:51Yeah, I was about to say.
02:52Imagine if I'd be like, oh, I would love George.
02:54Let's watch Jumbo.
02:55Like it's not really where my comfort movie lies.
02:59But no, we did like a weird mix.
03:02Tropic Thunder was in there.
03:03Tropic Thunder was great.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Was that the first time you saw Step Brothers?
03:06No, that was the first time I seen Tropic Thunder.
03:08Oh, it was, yeah.
03:09There you go.
03:10Love this.
03:11And listen, I asked Nick a really stupid question earlier,
03:14but I'm going to ask anyway.
03:15If you were dragons, what would the Nico Parker dragon
03:22and the Mason Thames dragon look like?
03:26Like what characteristics would they have?
03:28Because Nick said that he would have mask bars in his talons.
03:32And so I brought him mask bars when I just saw him
03:35because I had promised him that.
03:37So anything interesting about your dragon?
03:42Do you have, have you got any?
03:45Go ahead.
03:46He's first.
03:47No, Mason.
03:48What are you?
03:50I don't know if I have any.
03:52I feel like there's nothing interesting about me.
03:54I feel like my dragon would have, not that I'm showing it right now,
03:57but I feel like my dragon would have like big curly hair.
04:00I don't quite know what that would be like.
04:01Like a horse's mane.
04:02Yeah, but like very curly.
04:04It would have my exact hair, not right now.
04:05Would it breathe fire?
04:06Or would it be calm?
04:07I think it would obviously be a fire breathing dragon.
04:09Okay.
04:10Or a fire sign.
04:11It could not be.
04:12My dragon would have a bow tie and be named.
04:14You don't even have on a bow tie right now.
04:15Kurt.
04:16Why do I have to have a bow tie on?
04:17My dragon has a bow tie.
04:18It's a dragon.
04:19I don't have it because he took it.
04:20Bow tie, Kurt.
04:21You're calling him a loser?
04:23Yes.
04:24His name is Destroyer of Worlds.
04:25Kurt.
04:26The Destroyer of Worlds.
04:27Oh my God, have you read Dirk Lloyd?
04:30No, haven't I?
04:31The Dark Lord.
04:32No.
04:33And he gets...
04:34Okay.
04:35I was like, they want me to win.
04:37No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
04:39Not the story to get into it.
04:40But listen, you guys have done a great job.
04:42Thank you very much.
04:43So I'm really excited for the second one as well,
04:44because I know that's already in pre-production.
04:46So we know it's coming.
04:48I know.
04:49It's crazy to conceptualize this one even.
04:51Yeah.
04:52This one feels never ending.
04:53I have no idea what's going to happen by the second one.
04:56No, you've done a great job.
04:57So congratulations.
04:59And I will see you again very soon.
05:01I'm sure.
05:02We'll have a better answer for what our dragons would be like.
05:04Okay, so I'll come with that one again.
05:05What do you mean?
05:06Curtis, the Destroyer of Worlds with a Bowtie is amazing.
05:08I know, but maybe we'll have some kind of, like,
05:10Mars Wars is good.
05:11I know.
05:12They really want me to rap.
05:13Sorry.