Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson How to Train Your Dragon Press Conference

Gerard, you’ve been working in so many different genres lately. Do you have a favorite?
Gerard Butler: "I’ve done a musical, animated, romantic comedy, action-comedy, thriller, drama and action.  I think that my favorite to do, out of all of them, would have to be DreamWorks animated features."

Jay Baruchel: "Very nice.

Way to toe the line."

Gerard Butler: "But last week, when I was promoting The Bounty Hunter, it was definitely action-comedies. It really does change. Sometimes, I’m doing an action movie and I said, 'I’m never doing this again,' but most of the time I love it. And it’s like that for any genre. I get a lot of great stuff out of each of them, and then there’s a lot of stuff about each of them that drives me nuts."

Gerard, which project will you be working on next?

Gerard Butler: "I have a couple of them. The next one is actually some Shakespeare with Ralph Fiennes. It’s his directorial debut. It’s called Coriolanus, and we’ll be shooting in Serbia. Then I’m going to be working with Marc Forster, who did Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and the last Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. We’re doing a movie called Machine Gun Preacher, which is a true story about a former drug dealer who is now fighting with the Southern Sudanese People’s Liberation Army and became a preacher. He preaches in Pennsylvania and raises money for an orphanage that he runs down in Southern Sudan, and he uses machine guns to fight the rebel forces down there.

It’s a fascinating story."

America, are you finished shooting Ugly Betty yet?

America Ferrera: "On Monday, I start shooting my very last episode of Ugly Betty, which is a big culmination for me, in my life."

How many episodes have you done?

America Ferrera: "85."

Jay Baruchel: "Holy sh-t, wow!"

America Ferrera: "Yeah. It’s hard for me to even imagine what my life is going to be like, after that last day. I’ve been doing the same thing for the last four years, five days a week, 10 months out of the year. In between, I’ve squeezed in a movie here and a movie there. Now, I’m just excited to sleep and not feel like I have four weeks to find something that is worth doing."

"It’s funny that Betty is ending, I had Our Family Wedding come out last week, How to Train You Dragon is coming out this week, I produced and acted in a film that was at Sundance, and it was all in one month. Four years of my life all culminated, and now I have no interesting answer to that question. I wish you would have asked me that months ago. But, I think what I’m going to do next is probably sleep and relax, and just have that exciting feeling of anything being possible."

How do you feel about how the show is ending?

America Ferrera: "It’s hard. We all feel the same way. We’re so lucky we had it and that it was a part of our lives. It’s everything. We’re happy, excited and sad. It’s all of those things."

Jay, what do you have coming up?

Jay Baruchel: "In July, I have a movie coming out called The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. And then, I just finished a movie about three or four weeks ago called Notre Dame de Grace, which is the second movie I’ve made in as many years with director Jacob Tierney, back in Montreal. He’s one of my best friends. We made a movie called The Trotsky together that actually comes out in wide release in Canada in May, and premieres in the U.S. at the Tribeca Film Festival. And then, I’ll also be doing a lot of sleeping."

Craig, what about you?

Craig Ferguson: "I intend to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno."

Is it strange not to have your face in the animation for this film?

  Gerard Butler: "I like that. I like that people are surprised when they find out that you’re in something. I have my face on plenty of posters. I don’t need it on every poster. It didn’t bother me, in the slightest. Our voices are such a small part of this movie. We spent three years, popping in once every month. Those animators worked 12 hours a day for years to make the magnificence that you see. It might be a little weird, if my face were in it. I would feel guilty."