A new still from How to Train Your Dragon 2 has been released by USA Today and depicts Cate Blanchett’s new character.

The actress’ character, named Valka, is “a vigilante who is springing dragons from traps and hiding them in a refuge away from the villainous dragon hunter Drago Bludvist (Djimon Hounsou) and his No. 2, Eret (Kit Harington),” according to the new report.

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Director Dean DeBlois cast Blanchett after approaching her about the gig at a recent Oscars. “She was just standing there, and I said, ‘I’ve written a part for you in How to Train Your Dragon 2.’ You have to seize those opportunities when they present themselves. She’s such a glamorous starlet but, at the same time, this very grounded, super-cool Australian who drinks out of the can.”

He wanted her for the role because of her powerful presence, whether or not you can actually see the actor herself on screen. “We were able to tap that fiery strength that is present in every word that she utters and put it on the screen,” he says.

DeBlois describes Valka as someone who looks to protect the dragons by keeping them away from the public, which disturbs Hiccup. She is “somebody living with the animals and learning to communicate with them in non-verbal ways and becoming much like a dragon herself,” the director says. “Her years of isolation and dealing with nothing but dragons and being very sympathetic to them has made her very distrusting of humans.”

Perhaps Hiccup and Valka will settle their dragon raising differences and find ways to be romantically invested in one another by the end of the movie.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 hits theaters June 13, 2014. A teaser trailer was released in July and depicts a cool Hiccup/Toothless flight sequence.

Thanks, USA Today