![]() ![]() ![]() Though he had the acting itch as a youth, he was headed toward being a lawyer until he was “guided by other forces.” He had his college degree and was finishing training at an Edinburgh law firm when those other forces took over. So, ironically, he sometimes feels like he is “literally pretending to be a Scot” when he finally returns to his native accent.Īccents and acting weren’t originally in the cards for Butler. When he portrays an American, Butler tries to stay in character throughout shooting, even off camera. In his career, the actor also has played a lot of Americans, including the disgraced ex-Secret Service agent Mike Banning in last year’s hit “Olympus Has Fallen,” which he also produced. To give Stoick that “real bombastic masculine Viking feel, you really have to exaggerate the muscularity and get back into the throatiness and the power of the voice and the power of the consonants,” he says. Though he’s playing a Viking, Butler got to keep his Scottish accent in the “Dragon” movies, and even “put it on a bit more.” They can take in and understand more than most filmmakers think they can.” They really trusted the audience, especially the kids. I didn’t realize how much feeling I had about it till I sat down and asked him why he didn’t stay in touch. “When I saw him, though, I knew it was going to happen. “I guess I’m more Hiccup than Stoick - to have this person who should have been a huge part of your life suddenly part of your life again,” Butler says. When he was 16, his father - whom he hadn’t seen since he was a toddler - suddenly arranged a meeting in a restaurant with him. Her sudden re-emergance mirrors something that happened in Butler’s own life. In “2,” Cate Blanchett voices Valka, who had disappeared from Stoick’s life after Hiccup’s birth. Missing in the original film was Hiccup’s mother. In “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” he reprises the role of Stoick the Vast, the chieftain of the Viking tribe and father of the story’s hero, Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), who was the first to train a dragon. It’s an incredible stimulating visceral journey. Then, when I come back, there is this terrific piece of art. “The other great advantage is that I do my thing and then I let go. “So when you get to step into the booth of an animated movie, you get to do all of that same kind of action, but you don’t have to go through the pain and suffering,” says Butler with a smile. At one point, the actor says, he did 12 straight days of sword fighting, sometimes 15 hours a day and carrying 30 to 60 pounds of armor. The 44-year-old Gerard Butler looks very buff, having pumped a lot of iron for “Gods of Egypt,” which he just finished shooting in Australia for Alex Proyas (“Dark City”).
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