Gerard Butler has lately mirrored on his painful transformation for live-action How To Train Your Dragon film.
In a brand new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Gerard, who reprises the function of Stoick the Vast within the new film, revealed the key a part of his transformation was “hell”.
“It was unimaginable to revisit the How to Train Your Dragon franchise in a brand new manner,” mentioned the 55-year-old.
The Ugly Truth actor acknowledged, “I’d at all times questioned, seeing the animated model what wouldn’t it be prefer to be that dimension? Be that character and to dwell.”
When requested about rising large beard for his function, Gerard responded that by no means occurred.
“That was like 5 items of hell,” remarked the Plane actor.
Gerard instructed ET, “That was an excellent three and a half hours simply to be prepared.”
Earlier, the Greenland actor mentioned one other distinctive problem that got here with taking part in the character within the new film.
Speaking to Collider, Gerard mentioned that his costume weighed 90 kilos, recalling, “I had seven layers, thick layers, and a thick beard, after which I had a sort of bearskin or wolfskin over it. It was heavy.”
He continued, “When I had my sword and my defend and the helmet, which was heavy, and all these layers with the clasps that went round, it was 90 kilos, my costume.”
“I used to be, in the midst of the coldest day, soaking moist from sweat inside as a result of it was like a furnace in there,” quipped the actor.
Meanwhile, Gerard’s How to Train Your Dragon will premiere in theatres on June 13, 2025.
