“The Animators Took Notes From Me”: Gerard Butler On Bringing Stoick Into Live-Action #shorts

Gerard Butler IS Stoik the Vast, just ask the "How To Train Your Dragon" animators.

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00:00not to be full of myself but the animators often took notes from me like there's certain scenes

00:05that they showed me back in the animation where i was doing like you know hiccup it was rough i

00:10almost gave away all thorough matey christoph my animator showed me that me filming in the studio

00:16and then what the what the um the animated stoic did and i was like that actually made me more

00:21invested in the animated movies it just felt right and it was so well written you know that there's

00:25just times you go you know there's times you've got to be careful about that and stay away from

00:29the cartoonishness and maybe any kind of caricature and then there's moments you go okay these moments

00:33can be enjoyed you know the awkwardness between father and son i got you i know you

00:40and he played it great too and that was one of my favorite moments filming and when watching the movie

00:45i can't kill dragons but you will