The 37-year-old actor has been voicing the franchise’s protagonist, oddball viking Hiccup, since the first How to Train Your Dragon film was released in 2010.
Now, almost a decade later, the trilogy has come to an end. The final installment, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is available now on DVD, Blu-ray, and on digital platforms everywhere.
According to How to Train Your Dragon writer and director Dean DeBlois, Jay has been impacting his character and the franchise as a whole behind-the-scenes since the beginning.
Jay, who hails from Ontario, Canada, told us about one big way he left a personal mark on the series by improvising lines in the studio.
“Just the fact that I’ve been able to call Toothless ‘Bud’ through three movies and the series,” he explained. “It’s like the most Hoser way to relate to one. So, you know, I don’t know if someone else was Hiccup, that Toothless would be nicknamed ‘Bud.’ That’s something I’m proud of, because that is a very Canadian term of endearment.”
The third and final chapter in the How to Train Your Dragon story, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is out now on DVD, Blu-ray, and on digital platforms.
The final movie in the series reveals the end of Hiccup’s story with his faithful dragon, Toothless, as well as the fate of the vikings of Berk.
Check out 10 Fun Facts about Jay below!
I’m bilingual. I speak English and French.
I have a really big sword collection
I’m an expert in Arthurian mythology.
I’m also a World War II expert – specifically in Canada and Britain in World War II.
I have have 18 fillings.
I’ve had for root canals.
I’ve had for tooth extractions.
On a related note, I used to drink two liters of Coca-Cola a day for 20 plus years, which is probably why the last things happened.
I started my career doing English voiceover in French cartoons.
My father started his own political party in the 1994 Quebec Provincial Elections. It was called the Canada! party. He staple gunned pictures of himself to trees around our neighborhood.
Dreamworks Animation just released a huge amount of new pics from the film, plus new details about the five new dragons you’ll see on screen in the final movie of the franchise.
One of the new dragons in the flick is a Hobgobbler.
The pint-sized dragon is described as “French bulldog dragon” all because director Dean DeBlois has three Frenchies himself.
Simon Otto, the head of character animation, added to EW that it’s a “mix between a Frenchie bulldog and a rainforest frog… and also a beachball.”
Want to meet more of the new dragons? Click inside the slideshow below!
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World premieres on February 22nd!
The new visuals for the upcoming flick center on their lifelong bond and will quite possibly make you want to cry knowing the film franchise is almost over.
In one of the promos, you can even see a very grown up Fishlegs, who is just all about his dragon now.
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth.
As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World premieres on February 22nd
The movie centers on Hiccup, who is now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid. They’ve has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia.
When the sudden appearance of a female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth.
As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opens on February 22nd, 2019.
Debuting at New York Comic Con over the weekend, the new visual finds Stoick (who is a part of the upcoming film), opening up to a baby Hiccup about his hopes for his son.
In the flick, Hiccup is now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth.
As their true destinies are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together—to the very ends of the Earth—to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opens in theaters in March 2019.
In How To Train Your Dragon 2, we sadly saw Stoick the Vast, Hiccup’s father, die – however, don’t write off seeing him in How To Train Your Dragon 3, because he will be.
Director Dean DeBlois revealed to EW in a new interview that Stoick, voiced by Gerard Butler, will be in the final film of the franchise – just in flashbacks and flash forwards.
The movie will bring “Stoick back to help guide Hiccup in his chiefly responsibility as protector of Berk.”
EW dishes on one flashback scene where toddler Hiccup recalls Stoick’s tale about a secret home of dragons hidden behind a great waterfall somewhere at the edge of the world. Stoick’s dream was to seal it off and stop the fighting between humans and dragons.
Hiccup, however, sees the utopia as a potential new home where the people (and pets) of Berk can safely relocate.
Stoick’s inclusion “offers a warm hug to the character one last time,” the director shared. “The overall theme of the story is letting go, or finding the wisdom to let go, rather. So much of Hiccup’s identity, as a leader and an adult, is because of his relationship with Toothless. But if Toothless is not there, who is Hiccup?”
How To Train Your Dragon 3 flies into theaters in March 2019.
