Jay Baruchel Reveals How He Changed His 'How to Train Your Dragon' Character!

Jay Baruchel has left his mark on the How to Train Your Dragon universe!

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.”