“Easy methods to Practice Your Dragon” is devoted ‘to the loving reminiscence’ of Gerard Butler’s late mother, Margaret Coll

Gone however by no means forgotten: Easy methods to Practice Your Dragon ends with a touching tribute to Gerard Butler's late mother.

Audiences who keep by the very finish of the credit for the movie will see a word studying, "Devoted to the loving reminiscence of Margaret Coll." The Scottish actor's mom handed away in February at 81, in line with PEOPLE.

Butler, who voiced the character of Viking Chief Stoick within the animated movies and reprised the half within the new live-action remake, opened up in regards to the shock dedication in a brand new interview with UK-based radio station Magic Radio.

"I used to be so excited for her to see it, however I had a sense she wasn't going to make it. So Dean very kindly devoted the film to her," Butler mentioned, referring to writer-director Dean DeBlois.

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"If Stoick had a mum, that will have been my mum," Butler added. "She was an incredible girl, however she was robust, she was fiery, and she or he was swish, and she or he was stunning."

The movie, like the unique 2010 animated hit of the identical title, follows outcast Viking teen Hiccup (Mason Thames), who discovers he's not like everybody else and can’t kill the dragons inhabiting the isle of Berk. He comes into his personal and modifications the fates of each Berk and dragons eternally when he befriends one as a substitute — the Evening Fury Toothless — and learns their true methods.

Butler additionally opened up about why the movie is so particular to him, specifically, that he pertains to Hiccup's story — although his mother was extra supportive than Stoick is of his son's pursuits.

"She wrote me essentially the most stunning letter, and she or he mentioned, 'Look son, finish of the day, I need you to be blissful, and I like you it doesn’t matter what. And if that is what you need to do —'" he mentioned, including that she knew since Butler "was a child" that he "needed to be an actor."

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"It's this film — it truly is," he continued. "However it's the other, as a result of I used to be doing one thing that I by no means actually beloved [before acting], by no means cared about, that didn't present any of my uniqueness, and anyway to be trustworthy, I felt that one thing else was occurring, and she or he embraced that."

For his half, DeBlois informed The Hollywood Reporter that he needed to shock Butler with the dedication within the movie.

"I knew that the lack of his mom was a deeply felt wound and that he was having a troublesome time recovering from it," DeBlois mentioned. "So to honor her with a dedication within the credit simply appeared like the best factor to do in that second."

Easy methods to Practice Your Dragon, which additionally stars Nico Parker, Nick Frost, Gabriel Howell, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, and Peter Serafinowicz, hits theaters Friday.

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