Gerard Butler is overcome with emotional as he reveals How To Train Your Dragon film is dedicated to his 'amazing' late mother Margaret
Gerard Butler was overcome with emotion on Thursday as he paid tribute to his late mother Margaret on Magic Radio.
The Scottish actor and film producer, 55, stars as Stoick The Vast in the upcoming live-action How To Train Your Dragon movie, which releases Friday.
And Gerard revealed director of the film Dean DeBlois has dedicated the movie to Margaret - who sadly passed away before she could see the finished version.
Gerard's mother sadly passed away at the age of 81 earlier this year, months before the film premieres.
He said: 'I was so excited for her to see it but I had a feeling she wasn't going to make it. So Dean very kindly dedicated the move to her.
to stay in the loop.
'If Stoick had a Mum that would have been my Mum, she was an amazing woman. She was strong, she was fiery and she was graceful and she was beautiful.
'I wish the whole world could have met my Mum because she was a really special woman'.
He added: 'She knew since I was a kid I wanted to be an actor.
'It's this movie, it really is but it's the opposite I was doing something that I never really loved, never cared about that didn't show any of my uniqueness in any way to be honest and I felt that I had something else going on and she embraced that.'
Gerard frequently left his home in Hollywood to visit his mother in the village of Comrie in Perthshire - where she lived for more than 20 years.
He previously told the Record he would always return to Scotland to catch up with her and joked she would always 'slap the Hollywood out of him'.
'I sit in the garden, I look up at the mountain ranges and I am just taken aback constantly by how beautiful it is there, and what a great land I come from', he said.
'I just really connect when I get back, and I find that I recharge and knock out all the bull that's going round in my head, all of that Hollywood nonsense.
'I quickly get that slapped out of me.'
At the Brazilian premiere of How To Train Your Dragon last month, the movie paid tribute to his mother in the credits after the screening.
It read: 'Dedicated to the loving memory of Margaret Coll.'
Posting pictures from the premiere later on Instagram, Gerard included the tribute alongside the caption.
He wrote: 'Getting weird. Funny face. The boys. And in memory of my dearly beloved mother Margaret Coll.'
How to Train Your Dragon is expected to fly to the top of the box office after it's release on Friday.
The action-adventure stars Mason Thames, 17, as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid.
Based on the performance of the three previous films, the reimagined version is expected to pull in somewhere between $80 million and $100 million domestically according to Box Office Pro.
Universal Pictures has already announced a sequel to the anticipated blockbuster. 'They announced a release date and I was like, "Well, that's quite soon,"' Parker said.
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