America going the animated way
America Ferrera has signed on to voice one of the characters in the Dreamworks CGI-animated movie How to Train Your Dragon. She’ll co-star with Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Jonah hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
The movie is based on a children’s book series, it’s centered about the timid son of a Viking chief. To be initiated into his tribe he has to capture and train a dragon. America voices the character of Astrid who partners up with the son to train the dragon.
Animated movies of course are less of an acting challenge than live action movies. The story sounds like a real animated movie, it’s probably not a movie which could be done very well in live action. It’s also aimed at kids so the animation part makes sense, for America it’s probably a decent paycheck and a fun time.
