How To Prepare Your Dragon 2 Casts Lacking Reside-Motion Character With Ted Lasso Star As Filming Begins

A key Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2 character who was beforehand lacking from the introduced live-action forged will now be performed by a Ted Lasso star.

Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2‘s confirmed forged options Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid, Gerard Butler as Stoick, Nick Frost as Gobber, Julian Dennison as Fishlegs, Bronwyn James as Ruffnut, Gabriel Howell as Snotlout, and Harry Trevaldwyn as Tuffnut. Cate Blanchett, who voiced Hiccup’s mom Valka within the 2014 animated film, may also play her in stay motion, whereas Ólafur Darri Ólafsson takes on the position of the villainous Drago.

Now, Phil Dunster, identified for portraying fan-favorite character Jamie Tartt in Ted Lasso, has been forged as Eret. The information comes simply two days after director and author Dean DeBlois shared on his Instagram that filming had begun on the live-action Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2. Within the animated sequel, Eret was voiced by Sport of Thrones‘ Jon Snow star Equipment Harington. The character works for Drago as a dragon trapper.

Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon‘s Eret is a crucial particular person not solely within the second animated installment, but additionally within the third film, The Hidden World, which units up Dunster for a recurring position transferring ahead. The primary live-action movie within the fantasy franchise got here out in 2025 and earned $636.6 million worldwide, which is already creating excessive field workplace expectations for Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2.

One other contributing issue to the excessive expectations is that the animated sequel is usually thought-about to be the very best of the Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon films. With a “Licensed Recent” 77% critics’ rating and a “Verified Scorching” 97% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the reception to the 2025 live-action film was additionally optimistic, and now the strain is on for the following film to additional that success when it releases in theaters on June 11, 2027.

Coincidentally, Dunster’s casting was revealed on the identical day that Ted Lasso season 4’s launch window and new pictures have been unveiled. It was beforehand reported, earlier than it was identified that he could be in Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2, that Dunster wouldn’t be reprising the position of Jamie as a result of scheduling conflicts with different initiatives, together with the brand new HBO Max comedy sequence Rooster. Ted Lasso season 4 continues to be in manufacturing, and with Tips on how to Prepare Your Dragon 2 now filming as effectively, even a small Jamie look appears unlikely.