I assumed I will have to go find a dragon when I got the job to be the voice of the father of How to Train Your Dragon. I was like, "Wonderful. Wonderful." So, I say, "Okay, Gerad, we want you to come in on this date and you will, to do How to Train Your Dragon." And I'm like, "Wonderful." So, I'm in Sweden, hunting dragon because like a good actor, which I am. I'm like, "Well, they asked me to look for dragons, so that I may train them."

And you know, and I keeping these serious calls from my agent whose name I simply do not remember. It's so difficult to place him and he's like, "Gerad, where are you?" And I'm like, "Guy's name. I'm in Sweden. I'm hunting dragons like you asked me to, so that I may train them." Then he had to explain to me. This was shocking because  Gerard Butler is shocked by this, no in fact that the film was an animated film and then he further hinted that dragons might not possibly be real.

That was the most shocking thing of all that  Gerard Butler had to hear. Dragons not real? Why, what a crazy man this was. So, I was the father in How to Train Your Dragon, but I insisted also on voicing all of the dragons in How to Train Your Dragon, so I would get up on a desk a I would go on all fours and I would go like, "I'm a dragon. Not Gerad Buler. A dragon. I did not star in films such as 300 or PS I Love You. I'm a dragon. A wonderful dragon full of wonderful ideas and thoughts." Much of my material didn't make it in, nor was my suggestion to rewrite the ending of How to Train Your Dragon, so that all the characters would just watch the film 300 and PS I Love You and discuss it in depth, but you know,  Gerard Butler does not worry of such things.