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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Star Nico Parker Reacts to Trolls: “I Can’t Value Your Opinion on My Hair”

The actress plays Astrid in director Dean DeBlois' live-action remake that hits theaters Friday.

Nico Parker is speaking out about social media reaction to the actress’ casting as Astrid in the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon. In an interview with British publication The Times, Parker was asked about online trolls grousing that the actress does not have blonde hair and blue eyes, as Astrid was initially depicted in the animated films that launched with 2010’s original How to Train Your Dragon. “Nico 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,” the filmmaker said at the time.

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