Interview “Jurassic World Dominion”: Actors Chris Pratt & Bryce Dallas Howard Talk About Returning For This Gran Finale, & Working With The Original Cast. @BryceDHoward @PrattPrattPratt @JurassicWorld @UniversalPics @Rmediavilla #JurassicWorldDominion #JurassicWorld
How excited were you to come back to these beloved roles for this film?
Chris Pratt:
I’m so excited. It’s been a wild ride for sure. An incredible journey. Nine years and three great films. And this this film is just truly, like you said, the grand finale, the magnificent ending to really two trilogies, both Jurassic Park and with the legacy cast returning and then Jurassic World. It is very exciting. Any time you have a script that is that good with Colin back to direct it, you know, we knew we were in safe hands and we were going to get to just share the screen with some legends and icons from in the legacy cast as it was. It really doesn’t get better than that. It’s hard for me to imagine a scenario I’d be more excited to do for work.
Bryce Dallas Howard:
Yeah. I mean, I feel exactly the same. And I think that because we started. The movie in February and got shut down in March. Really quite early into our production. There was sort of this moment where we didn’t know whether or not we were going to be able to make the movie. You know, we were all everyone all over the world was dealing with some form of that question. And when we finally did come back and we were one of the earliest movies to come back in the pandemic, we, you know, there was there was a lot of concern around it.
Bryce Dallas Howard:
But what eclipsed that was the excitement and the gratitude that we actually all had a job that we could all go back to work. And the movie originally was supposed to come out last year, but while we were shooting it was decided to actually push it to two this year. And I’m so glad for that because, you know, it really feels like by the time this comes out in June, it’ll be summer movies will be open. We’re all triple sometimes some people are quadruple jabbed and it’s time to go back to the movies.
And so it’s something that we would have been looking forward to no matter what. But because of because of the circumstances of the last couple of years, we take none of that for granted. And so to release this movie is absolutely an amazing feeling.
How did you work on this one to convey to the audience the four years that have come between the last two films?
Chris Pratt:
When someone sees the film, they’ll know that going into it. We’re sort of given this update in the first 10 minutes of the film that really sets the stage for the audience of everything that’s happened in the past four years, as we’ve seen over the past four years in our life. Four years is a very long time, and a lot can change over the course of four years. And in our world, Jurassic World, that has been the case. We’re not saying that dinosaurs are everywhere, but, you know, not like every corner you turn around, there’s a dinosaur.
But the dinosaurs have proliferated to a degree that they aren’t just relegated to an island. They are in various parts of the world. And we get to follow those storylines around the whole world. So this film feels different. It feels more epic, more global. And what’s been going on is really just like there’s been entirely new and original ways that corporations would try to manipulate or, you know, take advantage or exploit the reality of genetic power to, you know, fill their bank accounts and, you know, to affect their bottom line. And it’s sort of I guess it remains a cautionary tale that’s, you know, parallels some of the things we’re seeing in the world today. It’s a different world, which makes for a more colorful, vibrant movie with landscapes that aren’t just jungle. We have, you know, high mountain desert and amazing chases through cities and, you know, the grand aerial fights between airplanes and dinosaurs. It just makes for a different kind of movie.
Let’s talk about your childhood memory of watching that first film. And how do you feel now about being a part of the last one?
Bryce Dallas Howard:
When I watched Jurassic Park, I was 12 years old and it was in the theaters opening weekend. Chris was 13 years old in the theaters opening weekend, so we were very much so at similar stages of our development as people. And I remember when I watched it, I originally wasn’t allowed to watch it. My parents weren’t going to let me. But they went opening night. And then they came back. And I remember my dad saying he was like, this. This movie has changed cinema forever.
You have to see this film in the theater. And so on that Saturday, I went and I saw the movie and I actually got emotional because at that point, I had I had been on a lot of my dad’s movie sets and had just naturally kind of gravitated toward the various innovations that were possible. Like I remember when I was five years old and my dad was doing Willow and, and they used morphing for the first time, the like morphing technology.
And I remember being kind of like blown away by that as a kid. And so when I saw Jurassic, I got really quite emotional because I knew that that what my dad said was real and that movies had changed forever. And now what was possible was just, you know, it had opened up all these new possibilities. And so I think that that experience always stayed with me. And I yearn for that experience when I go to the theaters. And that’s an incredibly high bar, that Jurassic Park set.
How was it for you to be working with the original cast and to share the screen with them?
Bryce Dallas Howard:
Absolutely amazing on so many levels. I mean, before we shot Jurassic World Dominion. Laura had just won an Oscar. Right. These are actors who let let’s set Jurassic Park to the side. And let’s say for a second, they weren’t in Jurassic Park in their own right. They have all done so many projects that have had such a huge impact on culture, and they themselves are so wildly talented. Plus, they’re incredibly warm, sweet, sincere, beautiful human beings.
Yeah, it was incredible getting to work with them. And then on top of that, we got to work with the characters that we love so much. I’m like, Oh my God, it’s Dr. Ian Malcolm. You know what I mean?
