The cast of How to Train Your Dragon 2's reaction to not having an Oscar...again.


Dragon's Oscar Reaction

by: Terrell James

February 22, 2015: Los Angeles, California

Backstage at the Academy Awards

Announcer: Presenting the cast of the Oscar nominated animated film, 'How to Train Your Dragon 2'; Hiccup, Astrid, Snotlout, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, Valka, Gobber and Toothless.

Crowd and press: (Applause as the cast walks in)

Reporter #1: Hello, Hiccup.

Hiccup: How's it going?

Reporter #1: Pretty good. Congrats on getting nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

Hiccup: Thank you.

Snotlout: (scoffs) For the second time.

Reporter #2: So...you guys' movies had been nominated for back to back Academy Awards before and you guys have the same outcome as before. Except in this scenario, Disney's 'Big Hero 6' won an Oscar. Are you still shocked that you still can't get an Oscar or have you gotten used to it now?

Hiccup: When we lost the Oscar from the original Dragon movie to Toy Story 3, we were all shocked that we didn't win. I think Toothless was much more shocked than any of us. Snotlout had said at one point that the Oscars were rigged...

Snotlout: Which it still is.

Hiccup:..but we were 15 then. Half of us had already figured that 'Toy Story 3' would win, but some said that we have a chance. But when we didn't get the Oscar, we were a little disappointed at first, but we had a lot of support from our fans via Facebook and Twitter. This time around, we kinda had a slight chance of getting the Oscar for this one, but if we didn't, then that's okay.

Astrid: The bright spot of that is that we got a Golden Globe Award...so that's saying something.

Hiccup: Yeah, if we win at least one major award for Dragon 2, then that was okay.

Reporter #3: I see we're missing Eret. Where is he?

Snotlout: Eret was with us a little while ago before we got backstage, but I think he's getting a little fixated with some of the ladies.

Ruffnut: Maybe he'll leave room for me. (purrs)

Tuffnut: (groans) Not at the slightest chance. He's too good for you.

Ruffnut: (scoffs) And yet you still don't have a girlfriend. (smirks)

Tuffnut: Hey, I can find a girl. She just has to come to me because I have good looks, charm and wit.

Ruffnut: Yeah, your wit sounds more like you're full of sh...

Hiccup: Okay! Moving on to the next question!

Reporter #4: How is Toothless doing with all the fame?

Hiccup: He seems to be taking the fame really well, but he doesn't really like it when cameras snap on him when he walks around either L.A., New York City or even in Scotland. If they get way too close, he swipes one of them, flies through the air and just spins him around until the cameramen finally gets the message.

Reporter #3: He doesn't like the paparazzi, doesn't he?

Hiccup: He still doesn't like them when they're following him. He only likes it when he poses for the red carpet or a photo shoot...as long as they're within distance.

Reporter #2: Is that true, Toothless?

Toothless: (gurgles as he nods his head)

Reporter #4: What was it like when you were filming Dragons 2?

Gobber: Everyone's holding their own and they've been well mature for their ages. Well, some better than others. Throughout the time we were filming, the cast has been getting along great. Although, some of the dragons tend to have their own moments. Some of them wanted to have their names on their trailers and some prefer to do their own stunts.

Reporter #2: Who does their own stunts?

Hiccup: Toothless does his own stunts. In the first movie, he didn't get a chance to do so and he didn't like it when someone did the stunts for him. But it wasn't until some of the direct-to-DVD or Blu-ray shorts that he's capable of doing his own stunts. Mostly because he doesn't care and that he's a very fierce, independent dragon.

Toothless: (nods his head)

Reporter #5: Who's the most level-headed of the cast?

Snotlout: Fishlegs and Hiccup. The rest of us are kinda way out there.

Reporter #2: Fishlegs, were there any on-set antics while you were filming?

Fishlegs: Um...in between breaks from shooting, Snotlout, Tuffnut and Ruffnut would play tricks on me and Hiccup, like on that one time when we were getting ready to shoot the scene where we all snuck onto Eret's ship, Snotlout and Tuffnut stuck a spider down my pants and I was just screaming like a girl, trying to get that spider off of me.

Tuffnut: (laughing) And it was a good one too!

Snotlout: Like, straight up! Tuff and I call ourselves the pranksters avengers.

Ruffnut: (grunts) They've always made stupid pranks like this since we shot the original film, like 6 or 7 years ago and it still amazes me that they still do it. Tuffnut calls me his 'favorite prank victim'.

Tuffnut: You can never escape my pranks, Ruff.

Eret: (pops in) Hello. Did I miss anything?

Ruffnut: (looks at Eret) Not at all. We were just talking about you, hot stuff.

Tuffnut: (rolls his eyes) Yeah, right.

Reporter #3: Valka, what was it like being in Dragon 2 where you came in as Hiccup's mom?

Valka: I thought it was a wonderful experience to kinda fill in the gaps on how Hiccup became who he is now and that I'm the same way he has been. We all know what it feels like to be misunderstood and being judgmental of others, particularly dragons. But if we look at the internal parts of them rather than the external, there's no reason for all of us to fear.

Astrid: Amen!

Hiccup: Many people think that something like this would be worthy of getting an Oscar because of the story, the characters, the emotional stuff because it is not like any other movie or sequel.

Gobber: Which is always considered an understatement to many.

Reporter #6: Goober, there are rumors in the press that question that you're straight when you said in the movie that you never married and one other reason. Would you care to elaborate?

Gobber: That is one I'll never tell. (winks)

Astrid: There's actually one story that I do want to share as we were filming; a couple of the dragons challenged Toothless for a little dragon twerk-off. Toothless was up for any challenge and he gathered all the dragons together to see who could twerk the best and Toothless took that challenge very seriously and he just out-twerked those dragons.

Toothless: (nods with a very cocky huff)

Reporter #4: How does a dragon twerk?

Hiccup: It surprised me too. Some of the dragons even posted it on Instagram and Twitter and it just got more followers than any of us, which is so weird.

Reporter #4: Toothless, roar if you think you're the best at twerking.

Toothless: (smiles, then roars loudly)

Hiccup: In translation: it'll make that singer's moves look like she's carrying Jell-O.

Ruffnut: Twerking aside...

Eret: Yeah, we're all in agreement that it's just an honor to be nominated for something everyone has grown to love.

Hiccup: Very true. When we first started doing 'Dragons', we thought it might be just one movie and then everyone else will move on to the next franchise. We never expected to have the kind of loyalty and dedication that the fans had brought us over these past 5 years. To have a couple of direct-to-DVD specials, a TV show, a sequel and now Dragons 3...it takes a lot for us to comprehend.

Tuffnut: Yeah, it's like we're the new digs of Dreamworks.

Eret: It's just something no one takes for granted and I'm just grateful to be a part of something special.

Valka: As are we.

Reporter #6: How do you take not winning an Oscar for either movies?

Astrid: As Hiccup said, we're just happy to be in the moment and even if we don't win an Oscar for it, that's okay. Some of our collegaues from Dreamworks had often called it 'The Dreamworks Oscar curse' where some of their movies or sequels gets nominated for an Oscar and then it wins to some other movie. Some of our fans react so strongly on social media to the point where they want to commit a fan-riot directed at the Oscars.

Hiccup: But...regardless of who wins, we're just happy to be here and we'll continue to do what we love to do and bring in many more stories of all of us in the future.

Announcer: Thank you all. That's all the time they have.

Hiccup: Thanks, you guys.

Reporters: Thank you and congrats for being the nominees.

Snotlout: Whatever.

Ruffnut: Cool cool.

Tuffnut: No probs.

Valka: Thank you.

Eret: Likewise.

Astrid: Maybe we'll see you later.

Fishlegs: Hopefully, with an Oscar statue.

Gobber: Tallyho!

Toothless: (Roars)

The cast: (walk out backstage as the press conference closes)


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