Mason Thames: 5 Things About The Actor Playing Hiccup In Live-Action ‘How To Train Your Dragon’

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Image Credit: Fati Sadou/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shutterstock Mason Thames started acting erstwhile helium was 11. His breakout relation was the fearfulness film The Black Phone. He’s been formed successful the How To Train Your Dragon live-action film.

Mason Thames is truly making a sanction for himself successful the movie industry. The 15-year-old had his breakout relation successful the 2022 supernatural fearfulness film The Black Phone alongside Ethan Hawke. And present Mason is acceptable to play Hiccup successful the live-action adaption of How To Train Your Dragon. Mason is landing truthful galore large opportunities, and the How to Train Your Dragon movie is truly going to alteration his life. Here’s 5 cardinal things you request to cognize astir Mason.

Mason Thames (Photo: Fati Sadou/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shutterstock)

Mason is joining the ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ franchise.

Mason’s casting successful the How To Train Your Dragon live-action movie was announced May 30. He’s playing Hiccup while The Last of Us star Nico Parker is playing Astrid. The movie is being directed Dean DeBlois and volition beryllium released March 14, 2025. The How To Train Your Dragon franchise already includes 3 animated movies featuring Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, and Craig Ferguson. There’s besides been 5 abbreviated films and respective animated TV shows.

Mason played Finney successful ‘The Black Phone’.

Mason’s quality Finney is simply a mediate schooler who gets bullied and harassed astatine school. While walking location 1 day, he’s abducted by The Grabbler (played by Ethan Hawke). From captivity, Finney discovers a disconnected achromatic telephone and is capable to pass with The Grabbler’s astir caller victim, who Finney conscionable truthful happens to know.

Mason Thames successful ‘The Black Phone’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

He’s caller to acting.

Mason started acting erstwhile helium was 11 years old, according to his website. In 2019, helium landed the recurring relation of the younger mentation of Danny Stevens successful the fashionable Apple TV+ series For All Mankind. The pursuing twelvemonth helium was formed arsenic Robbie Knievel for a constricted bid titled Evel. The show, which was besides acceptable to star Milo Ventimiglia of This Is Us, was enactment connected clasp owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He studied ballet.

Mason’s website says that the talented teen studied ballet adjacent earlier helium started acting. He was chosen to execute with a nonrecreational International ballet institution connected circuit for 4 years and was the youngest formed member.

Mason Thames successful ‘The Black Phone’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

He’s going to beryllium successful a thriller film.

Mason is acceptable to prima successful the thriller film Boys of Summer as Noah Reed, a young lad who seeks assistance from a detective (played by Mel Gibson) to lick a enigma connected Martha’s Vineyard. Lorraine Bracco, Nora Zehetner, and Abby James Witherspoon besides star. The movie is presently successful post-production.

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