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Why Gerard Butler Is Breaking into Unchartered Territory with His Role in ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: It's very common for actors to reprise their role in
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Speaker 2: a popular franchise they've already started in the past. What
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Speaker 2: isn't as common, and may be entirely unprecedented for an actor,
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Speaker 2: is for an actor to star on screen in the
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Speaker 2: live action version of an animated film they previously voiced.
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Speaker 2: But Jard Butler's doing just that with his upcoming role
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Speaker 2: and How to Train Your Dragon. He famously voiced the
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Speaker 2: father character Stoic the Vast in the trilogy of animated
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Speaker 2: DreamWorks Dragon films, and has just inked a deal to
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Speaker 2: play him in the flesh in a live action movie
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Speaker 2: due next year. James Earl Jones famously voiced Mufasa in
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Speaker 2: the original Lion King in the twenty nineteen live action film,
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Speaker 2: but didn't appear in either, as the character was Cigi
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Speaker 2: in the remake How to Train Your Dragon. It's theater
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Speaker 2: Summer twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.