It was a good remake, but a remake all the same. I wanted more magic, more color, more emotion, and more energy out of the film. It felt like How to Train Your Dragon (2010) if it was done by a sad ...

No, sometimes, with these big movies, you have to say yes to the movie before you’ve actually read the script. But I was in London after I’d just been offered the role, and they gave me a couple of ...