{"id":171723,"date":"2025-06-10T01:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171723\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:39:11","slug":"nico-parker-reacts-to-race-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171723\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Parker Reacts to Race Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNico Parker<\/a> is speaking out about social media reaction to the actress\u2019 casting as Astrid in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with British publication The Times<\/a>, Parker was asked about online trolls grousing<\/a> that the actress does not have blonde hair and blue eyes, as Astrid was initially depicted in the animated films that launched with 2010\u2019s original How to Train Your Dragon. Universal Pictures<\/a> releases the remake of the DreamWorks Animation<\/a> hit movie in theaters Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s some people that really love the animated movies and really want to see an exact play-by-play of that film, and I hope that you can watch [the new version] and find something that you love about it, regardless,\u201d Parker said. \u201cBut for the people that just hate inclusivity, hate change \u2014 when it comes to that side of things, I just don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 20-year-old performer continued, \u201cIf I wouldn\u2019t value your opinion on most things in life, I can\u2019t value your opinion on my hair. If I did, I would go mad.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tA still showing Hiccup and Astrid riding Toothless in the 2010 animated film How to Train Your Dragon.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tParker, whose parents are actress Thandiwe Newton and filmmaker Ol Parker, went on to say that she believes Hollywood is making headway when it comes to onscreen representation. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was younger, the amount of mixed race or Black icons, people that I would look to on screen to be like, \u2018Oh, this feels like me,\u2019 felt really minimal in comparison to what it could be for young people now, and I think that\u2019s really special,\u201d the actress said. \u201cThere\u2019s still a long way to go \u2014 for women in general, in terms of new parts, original material and female-led stories. But I think that everything\u2019s changing. I\u2019d like to think that I could contribute to that change at some point.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWriter-director Dean DeBlois<\/a>\u2018 new How to Train Your Dragon features Mason Thames as Hiccup, who develops a friendship with dragon Toothless. America Ferrera\u00a0voiced Astrid in the original animated trilogy that last hit screens with 2019\u2019s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a press event earlier this year<\/a>, DeBlois noted that Astrid \u201cwas a little underserved\u201d in the original movie. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNico Parker plays Astrid, [and] that feeds into this idea that she has come from a different culture, that she is a descendant of one of those prized dragon-fighting warriors that were collected by Vikings in different places,\u201d the filmmaker said at the time. \u201cShe hopes to be chief of this tribe one day. She\u2019s got great ambition, and what\u2019s nice about it is that it creates a conflict between she and Hiccup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nico Parker is speaking out about social media reaction to the actress\u2019 casting as Astrid in the live-action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[32015,66079,71443,77,36987,3943,71444,16,15,17981],"class_list":{"0":"post-171723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-animation","9":"tag-dean-deblois","10":"tag-dreamworks-animation","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-how-to-train-your-dragon","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-nico-parker","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-universal-pictures"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114656520836788506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}