4/1 - Gerard Butler gives Scotch twist to Viking dad in How To Train Your Dragon

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Forty-year-old British actor Gerard Butler has starred in so many movies recently it’s hard to believe that he only began to devote all his energies to pursuing an acting career 13 years ago. He says, in an L.A. hotel room, that he could easily relate to the central story of the animated film How to Train Your Dragon. In it, a Viking boy named Hiccup decides that he isn’t cut out to follow in his father’s footsteps as a dragon slayer. Butler, who voices the part of Stoick, Hiccup’s father, says that he himself was concerned that his family would be upset with him if he left law for the stage and screen.

“My family always knew . . .

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