Nick Frost isn't just starring in How To Train Your Dragon, he's also taken on the part of Hagrid in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series, and he's been telling Melissa Nathoo how he plans to put his own spin on the role made famous by Robbie Coltrane. 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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00:00I think he'd have a lovely, broad chest.
00:02Hated it.
00:03I hated it.
00:04I think it would help you potentially win over the love of your life.
00:08Now, get out.
00:09How are you, Nick?
00:10Good. How are you?
00:11Very well. What a great film.
00:12And you are so perfect for Gobba.
00:14I feel like you had a lot to deal with.
00:15Peg leg, a lot of facial hair.
00:18One arm.
00:19What was the hardest thing to have to deal with through that whole filming?
00:21The moustache.
00:23I hated it.
00:24I hated it.
00:25I hate, like, glue on my face.
00:28I mean, it doesn't spring up that often, but it's like when it happens, I'm like, oh,
00:32I hate it.
00:33So, yeah, they had to, that took like an hour and a bit every day.
00:37And I just, I just didn't like it.
00:39But, do you know when you see sometimes someone puts like a, like a bit of cloth or like a hat
00:46on a cat's head and they just, they don't move, they like stop moving.
00:50That's what I was, as soon as that moustache went on, I just stopped.
00:53Because to move in it was horrible.
00:55Yeah, it looked, it didn't.
00:56I couldn't eat.
00:57Because you get all the moustache in your mouth.
00:59Yeah, that didn't look fun.
01:00Yeah.
01:01I mean, I am pitching to Dean in the first kind of couple of scenes of the second film,
01:05like a deadly nader blows it off with a fireball and then I don't have to have it, but he's
01:10not playing.
01:11Perfect.
01:12I like that you're already thinking well ahead.
01:14Well ahead.
01:15I have a stupid question.
01:16Okay.
01:17If you were going to describe yourself the Nick Frost dragon, what would they look like?
01:22He'd have great hair.
01:23I think he'd have a lovely broad chest.
01:26Right.
01:27You're just describing yourself.
01:28Yeah.
01:29Right?
01:30Yeah.
01:31He'd have beautiful wings made of denim or corduroy.
01:35And I think he'd have like a really, like in his talons, he'd have like a big Mars bar.
01:40Mars bar?
01:41Yeah.
01:42He'd gone down to a newsagent and stolen a big Mars bar.
01:44You are obviously tasked with teaching the kids how to slay dragons.
01:49Yes.
01:50I'm curious though, do you have any skills yourself that you think need to be passed down?
01:55Like, or you've tried to pass down to other generations that you're like, this must be
01:59taught in the same way that slaying is taught to these kids.
02:02I mean, I guess as a, as a keen cook, I think my, I need to kind of, if you can make a nice
02:09omelette.
02:10Oh good.
02:11Yes.
02:12I can't.
02:13Well, there we go.
02:14I think your parents, no disrespect, have kind of failed you.
02:15They failed me.
02:16Yeah.
02:17I think it's important to know if you can just cook something.
02:19Yeah.
02:20Even an, not even an omelette, it's quite difficult, but just that.
02:23I think that's enough.
02:24I think it would help you potentially win over the love of your life too.
02:28That's why I haven't found them yet.
02:30There we go.
02:31Genuinely.
02:32Every time I come into these, I'm like, how can I find someone?
02:34And you've just screwed it.
02:35Make an omelette.
02:36Make a great omelette.
02:37So thank you very much for that.
02:38Is there a time when you had a job that didn't pan out in the same way that Hiccup is not
02:42born to be a slayer and he cannot do it?
02:45Are you in your past had one where you're like, I'll give it a go, but this is not great.
02:49I didn't start acting until I was like 29, 30.
02:52So I had a lot of jobs before, before doing this.
02:56Yeah.
02:57And I was a good waiter.
02:59I loved being a waiter.
03:01And I was a cook and a chef for years and I really liked doing that.
03:05Yeah.
03:06I worked on it in a chicken farm.
03:09I lived in the Middle East for two years and I worked in a chicken farm and it was absolutely disgusting.
03:16Okay.
03:17And I hated it, but I was kind of forced to do it.
03:20How do you go from chicken farm to...
03:23Well, how to train your chickens to how to train your dragon.
03:27How do you make that jump?
03:29Yeah, it takes a while.
03:30And listen, this isn't the only massive film that you're going to be...
03:35Yeah.
03:36You're obviously joining the Harry Potter franchise.
03:37Yes.
03:38And I know you said you're not going to copy...
03:39I mean, you can't copy what's coming for.
03:41No, of course not.
03:42How do you put your own spin on a character like Hagrid that is so ingrained, I think, like in all of our lives?
03:50Well, I think what I plan to do is kind of you respect what went on.
03:55That's a foundation that has been laid.
03:57Yeah.
03:58And you just, as much as you can, ignore it, you know, and do your own thing.
04:04But you, you know, with the books and with what Robbie did, you have been set a kind of boundary in terms of this is the character.
04:12But as long as you play within that, you can do anything, you know.
04:16I'm really looking forward to seeing what...
04:18It's going to be incredible.
04:19Yeah, it is.
04:20And when I interview you for that, I will bring you a Mars bar.
04:22Thank you very much.
04:23I will love that.
04:24But bring it in your talons.
04:26In my talons?
04:27Yeah.
04:28Great.
04:29I will make sure I do all of that.
04:30And I'll make you an omni.
04:31Ah, dream.
04:32Now get out.