Gerard Butler chats with Melissa Nathoo about returning as Stoick The Vast in How To Train Your Dragon and the skill he's pass on to the next generation. 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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00:00If he's also Mike Banning, surely he doesn't have to wear that 90-pound costume.
00:04I was never put on this earth to teach anybody anything handy.
00:07I think that that is something that I could pass down to my kids.
00:10Trust me, there's a sigh of relief from me too.
00:12Lovely to see you again.
00:14Lovely to see you again.
00:16I feel like a lot of the films I used to interview about were you saving the world.
00:21So it's lovely to see you in all your Viking glory for this one.
00:25Almost destroying the world.
00:26Basically, pretty much.
00:28You weren't going to say that, but I'll say it for you.
00:30Fair enough.
00:31How does your voice hold up, by the way, when you were doing a film like this?
00:34I feel like it's at the top of, like, you push it.
00:37I was pushing it.
00:37I was pushing it in this.
00:39I did some stuff to kind of warm it up.
00:43But I do have quite a strong voice anyway.
00:45But I also knew there were days that I was going to be a little raspy.
00:48At least it's not a musical, right?
00:50So me having a raspy voice is not going to kill this movie.
00:53I would like to see you.
00:54What's going on with Stoy?
00:55I think he's got a bit of a rasp in his voice.
00:57It's all right.
00:58It's a nice little sexy rasp.
00:59We like that.
01:00It's fine.
01:01How were you on set, though, with that costume and Surrounded by Fire?
01:05Were you not just boiling the entire time?
01:08I was hot.
01:10And I have to say, everybody else was cold.
01:12It was in Belfast.
01:13It was in the middle of winter.
01:15And I don't know why I did it.
01:16I would have ice baths every morning.
01:17And there was a window in my hotel.
01:19I'd look out.
01:20It was so dark and cold.
01:23And for some reason, I had decided, I'm going to do an ice bath every day.
01:26I get in there so miserable.
01:27But it kind of worked because for the rest of the day, even when everybody was boiling or when everybody was cold, I was boiling because I had seven thick layers on.
01:36And a sheep on top of that, basically, on my back and this helmet and a thick wig and a beard and five pieces.
01:43So everybody was complaining for one reason or another.
01:47Mine was just the opposite.
01:48Yours was the opposite.
01:49Is this the world that you imagined in your head when you were voicing Stoic the very first time for the animation?
01:56Is this what you imagined?
01:58I have to say, very similar.
01:59Because it's a good question you ask.
02:01I often imagine, what would it be like to actually be in that world?
02:06So to step onto those sets was both surreal but really inspiring, too.
02:10Because I'm like, okay, one, I already know this is going to look amazing on film.
02:15But I already know selfishly as an actor and as a human, I'm going to have a blast on these sets.
02:20I'm stepping into our Viking Coliseum.
02:22I'm walking across these incredible harbors on the Viking ships into the Viking village and the Great Hall.
02:28The sets were incredible.
02:29The costumes were amazing.
02:31And then when you get to augment that and use the artistry that we used in this film where literally you're seeing cinematic stuff that you never really saw.
02:40really seen on film before, then you kind of knew we're on to, I think, a winner.
02:45It looks so good.
02:46I'm so glad.
02:47The animation is so loved.
02:49So I'm so glad that the live action is living up to that.
02:53Trust me, there's a sigh of relief from me, too.
02:55Yeah.
02:56I bet.
02:57I bet.
02:57If I'm being honest.
02:59There's always got to be, right?
03:00When you're doing these films.
03:01There's a risk in every movie.
03:02There was a risk in the animation.
03:04God, we scrapped the animation.
03:05Halfway through the first movie, everything changed.
03:08Dean was not on board.
03:09Dean came on.
03:10It became a more grown-up version.
03:12And everything changed.
03:14And so we never knew.
03:16You know, we hoped.
03:18Yeah.
03:18But then it's the same with this.
03:20But now, you know, it's not 15 years of me doing it, but 15 years of Dean, who's such a creative genius.
03:26And the team behind him having a chance to understand what is the heart of this story.
03:31And to know, you know, where you can push it.
03:34And I think they did that.
03:35Yeah.
03:36And yet they stayed true to the original.
03:38You know, but it still feels like a completely fresh movie.
03:41Yeah.
03:41Yeah, it really does.
03:42And something to be thoroughly enjoyed.
03:43I'm curious to know, do you have any skills in the way that Stoic wants Hiccup to learn to be a dragon slayer?
03:50So he wants to pass that down to his son.
03:51Do you have any skills that you're like, I should pass this down to the next generation?
03:56No, not really.
03:58No, that's why I act.
04:00People then say, okay, we're going to pretend you're good at that.
04:03And I can go, hey, son, you need to be like me.
04:06Whereas me, you know, I could say, hey, I could do a belly.
04:09I can do a belly roll.
04:10You want to see a belly roll?
04:11I'm going to show you it right now.
04:12But I think that that is something that I could pass down to my kids, is how to roll their bellies.
04:18Other than that, no, they're screwed.
04:20I don't know when that will come in handy for them, but perhaps, who knows?
04:23I was never put on this earth to teach anybody anything handy, except stuff that was written for me.
04:30Last time I spoke to you, you gave me steps on how to save the world.
04:34I did?
04:34So you clearly are teaching something.
04:38Teaching something.
04:38Oh, you just know how, you have the gift of the gab.
04:40That's what it is.
04:41Yeah, don't ask me how to cook a pasta.
04:43But you want to know how to save the world?
04:45Come to me for that.
04:46I just deal with the big stuff.
04:47It's all right.
04:47We have Nick Frost for cooking.
04:48He said that's what he would teach, is teach me how to cook an omelette.
04:51And we're good.
04:52That's what he's passing down.
04:52So between me and Nick Frost, we're good.
04:55I'm so upset.
04:56I'm so upset.
04:57And listen, when is the Burke Has Fallen crossover film coming?
05:01I've been speaking to them about that.
05:03I think we've got to get through this first.
05:05And I need a break from wearing that costume.
05:07Or we find a way where you go, look, if he's also Mike Banning,
05:10surely he doesn't have to wear that 90-pound costume.
05:13Because I'll put that into the hands of Dean Dubois.
05:15I'm so glad that you are still here from the very first films right now.
05:21Because you're so good at stoic.
05:23You're so good.
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