--- title: Napoleon Dynamite 10th Anniversary: Cast Reunites, Dedicates Statue description: Flippin' sweet canonical: https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-11T19:03:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:40.522Z og:title: The Cast Of 'Napoleon Dynamite' Reunited For the Film's 10th Anniversary og:description: They dedicated a giant bronze Napoleon statue og:url: https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9612be75501330e/698697291eebf70373371651/450351048.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Napoleon Dynamite" 10 Sweet Years Edition Blu-Ray/DVD Release And Statue Dedication og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Cast Of 'Napoleon Dynamite' Reunited For the Film's 10th Anniversary twitter:description: They dedicated a giant bronze Napoleon statue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9612be75501330e/698697291eebf70373371651/450351048.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Cast of _Napoleon Dynamite_ Reunited and Took Some Weird Pictures by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 11, 2014 7:03 PM UTC  Actors Haylie Duff, Shondrella Avery, Carmen Brady, Diedrich Bader, Jon Heder, Sandy Martin, director Jared Hess, and actors Tina Majorino, Efren Ramirez attend the "Napoleon Dynamite" 10th anniversary celebration. Actors Haylie Duff, Shondrella Avery, Carmen Brady, Diedrich Bader, Jon Heder, Sandy Martin, director Jared Hess, and actors Tina Majorino, Efren Ramirez attend the "Napoleon Dynamite" 10th anniversary celebration.Vincent Sandoval / WireImage / Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 11, 2014 7:03 PM UTC On an average day, if you ask Jon Heder — the actor best known for playing the titular character in _Napoleon Dynamite —_ what he’s going to do, he could reasonably respond, “[Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlcXNB8xHqw).” But on Monday, if you’d asked him what he was going to do, he’d have replied, “I’m reuniting with the film’s entire cast so we can celebrate the 10th anniversary and then also unveil a creepy bronze Napoleon Dynamite statue.” So yeah. That happened. The cast was also, of course, promoting something: the special “10 Sweet Years” Blu-ray/DVD release. As for the statue, Heder seemed pretty cool with it and was gleefully Instagramming it: To be fair though, not everybody is flippin’ sweet enough to have a statue in their likeness. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/"},"headline":"The Cast of Napoleon Dynamite Reunited and Took Some Weird Pictures","datePublished":"2014-06-11T19:03:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:40.522Z","description":"Flippin' sweet","url":"https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9612be75501330e/698697291eebf70373371651/450351048.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta9612be75501330e/698697291eebf70373371651/450351048.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Napoleon Dynamite\" 10 Sweet Years Edition Blu-Ray/DVD Release And Statue Dedication","caption":"\"Napoleon Dynamite\" 10 Sweet Years Edition Blu-Ray/DVD Release And Statue Dedication","creditText":"Vincent Sandoval / WireImage / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2859822/the-cast-of-napoleon-dynamite-reunited-and-took-some-weird-pictures/","name":"The Cast of Napoleon Dynamite Reunited and Took Some Weird Pictures"}}]}] ```