Welcome to Hollywood’s funniest — and perhaps most unlikely — Gen Z double act: Gaten Matarazzo, best known as the goofy, loveable nerd Dustin in Stranger Things, and Jacob Tremblay, a teenage movie star who played the captive five-year-old in Emma Donoghue’s Room and Auggie, a boy with a facial disfigurement, in Wonder.
The three of us are meeting in a London hotel room to discuss their first collaboration — My Father’s Dragon, adapted for Netflix from Ruth Stiles Gannett’s 1948 children’s book and directed by Nora Twomey. Matarazzo, 20, based in New York, voices Boris, a comically incompetent dragon; Tremblay, 16, from Vancouver, is the dragon’s new best friend, a boy called Elmer.
The tale is centred on the efforts of Elmer,
