00:00I think dragons are just oversized, but equally lovable pets.
00:15Nice to see you.
00:16Nice to see you.
00:17How are you Valentina?
00:19Fine.
00:20And I really love this movie.
00:22And since Ichab learns a lot about dragons because he studies them,
00:27I'm wondering, in your opinion, what can we learn from dragons?
00:33What can they teach us?
00:34I think they can teach us the same warmth and love and compassion that our own pets do.
00:42So it's a wonderful thing.
00:44I mean, just because an animal is wild does not mean that it isn't intelligent and capable of companionship as
00:50well.
00:51So I like to think of my own dog as a little dragon.
00:55I dress him up sometimes that way.
00:57But yeah, I think dragons are just oversized, but equally lovable pets.
01:02Is your dog a Night Fury too?
01:06Well, yeah, one of my dogs, I used to have three.
01:09Now I'm down to one, but one of them had his own Night Fury outfit.
01:13Yes.
01:13He's a French bulldog.
01:14Oh, is he?
01:15He had a toothless outfit.
01:16And since Ichab is so great with words, he can really make other people change their mind.
01:24Do you believe that he could have made Daenerys Targaryen see reason?
01:30Yes, I do think so.
01:32I think Hiccup is a very persuasive character.
01:36And yeah, I think Daenerys was a little bit too quick, too quick to jump to the violence.
01:42So she probably needed to be calmed down by someone like Hiccup.
01:45And I love the scenes in which he and the other characters ride the dragons in the animation
01:51movie were amazing.
01:53But here you've done them with real actors.
01:56So I was constructing those scenes.
01:59They're amazing, really.
02:00It was complicated because we we had to basically we knew we were going to be animating the dragons,
02:06but we had to film the actors for real.
02:09So we built a giant machine that was several meters tall and it could move in six different axes on
02:18command.
02:18And on top of that, we had robot dragons for each dragon.
02:22So Toothless, for example, his his chest and neck and head were on top of this moving gimbal.
02:29And when we put Mason Thames, our actor playing Hiccup in the saddle, we could control everything
02:36the dragon was doing according to what we needed.
02:38And his body would respond to all of that movement.
02:42So he felt like a jockey on a racehorse moving with the creature.
02:47And then we could extract that element, just just the element of Mason Thames and put it on the animation
02:54that was brilliantly done by Framestore.
02:57They were our visual effects and animation vendor.
03:01So it became married in such a way that was completely convincing.
03:05And since Gerard Butler is again stoic also in Flesh and Blood, is there any chance that you will reunite
03:14the family
03:14and we will see Kate Blanchett as Valka in other movies or not?
03:19I hope so. I hope so.
03:22I've already called Kate and, you know, I think it's it's it's nothing's for sure.
03:29But I wrote this part for her and she knows that.
03:33So it's always going to be her, you know, her role to turn down if she doesn't want to.
03:38Let's hope she will say yes.
03:40And Hiccup says that he saw himself into toothless eyes.
03:50And it's really an amazing scene because he teaches us empathy.
03:57Do you believe that empathy is one of the best thing that this story shows us?
04:02Yes. And it's one of the best things that we have as human beings are capable of.
04:07So it is a story that celebrates looking looking beyond what you were taught about someone else
04:14and and all of the possibilities that that could make for a better future that come from that.
04:21And since we have an interesting family, you are a family expert because you have also an Awana family.
04:27What does you mean family to you?
04:29I think family is whatever you choose it to be.
04:33You know, it doesn't necessarily have to be the family you were born into.
04:36Maybe you find you find your perfect family as you live your life.
04:40But more important is that you you try to be authentic to yourself and not always try to change who
04:47you are to satisfy other people.
04:50So I think Hiccup is the type of hero who he can withstand.
04:54He can endure the mockery and the ridicule and the disappointment of other people's expectations.
05:01And by being himself and staying true to that, eventually the world starts to change around him.
05:08And I think that's a nice lesson for anybody who feels like they're on the outside, whether it's in your
05:13own family or just in your society.
05:16As Gober says, stop trying to be something you're not.
05:19Yeah, it's right.
05:21Exactly.
05:21Okay.
05:22Thank you so much.
05:23Thank you so much.
05:23The movie is really beautiful.
05:25Thank you.
05:25Thank you.
05:26I really appreciate that.
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