Jurassic World: Dominion marks the conclusion of the second Jurassic trilogy, with original Jurassic Park heroes Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum reuniting in their roles for the first time since Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster debuted way back in 1993. The veteran stars join Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard for the latest—and possibly last—chapter of the Jurassic franchise.
“It’s so nostalgic to be back together with my buddies. On the first day, when Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neil, and I had our costumes on and we walked on set for this film, I texted Steven a photograph of all three of us, and it brought tears to his eyes to see us all back together,” said Dern at the film’s world premiere in Hollywood on Monday night. “We all got teary and a bit weepy. It was very sweet. I had the time of my life making the original Jurassic Park, and the three of us became a family. It was so much fun and bliss to work with Sam and Jeff again.”
Jurassic World: Dominion follows the destruction of Isla Nublar in 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In the interim, dinosaurs have spread throughout the modern world. “There are new and more dinosaurs than you’ve ever seen before, and the danger has become very real,” teased Pratt, who plays Owen Grady, a dinosaur behavior expert. “People are forced to live with them, and with one specific dinosaur that is the biggest carnivore predator. But the movie has a lot of heart. To me, family is the main theme, and the movie ultimately centers on how the characters protect and care for each other.”
Pratt’s referring to the Giganotosaurus, a new dinosaur featured in the film that is bigger and more menacing than even a T. rex. “We built a full-size Giganotosaurus to chomp people,” said director and cowriter Colin Trevorrow. “A real Giganotosaurus weighs about 30,000 pounds and measures about 43 feet in length, and the details of our animatronic were incredibly realistic, with textured skin and teeth. It looked and felt like a real thing.”
The film’s crew built about 27 animatronic dinosaurs of varying sizes, using practical effects and real locations whenever possible over CGI. “When using animatronics, there’s a sense that something is real, and the audience feels it,” said Trevorrow. “When you see that the humans can reach out and touch and interact with these things and lay their hands on them, it makes it seem real. The original Jurassic Park movie had the same feeling.”
DeWanda Wise, best known for her performance in Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It, joins the cast as Kayla Watts, a bisexual former military pilot who is now an ace cargo-pilot-for-hire. “I love how my character is incredibly quick-minded and resourceful,” said Wise. “It doesn’t take a long time for her to say, ‘Okay, I know how to problem-solve this.’
“Throughout all of the Jurassic movies, women are portrayed as intelligent and empowering, and my character is also one of those women. I mean, Laura Dern was doing it before anyone knew what female empowerment was. Like, she was constructing this character from the strength and the core of her integrity, and I think this franchise does a good job of doing that. It’s not about an agenda, and it’s not about a takeover—it’s about the implicit power of women.”
Dern said she personally “never imagined returning” to play Dr. Ellie Sattler one more time. But if her character was going to come back, she wanted her to be an “evolved scientist” and “true to who she was, which is being fearless yet vulnerable.”
“Her activism and feminism as a scientist was really important to me. I spoke with Steven and Colin, and we all wanted her to return with a new sense of self and advanced in her life and her work,” said Dern. “She’s not some sexy-scientist trope. I didn’t wear makeup in this movie. She’s real. She’s divorced but loving life independent. She’s raised kids. And she’s at the height of her career, and she’s using it as service to the world. She’s really a modern, feminist female action hero, and that’s a beautiful message.”
Jurassic World: Dominion sees Dern escaping large locusts and running away from the Giganotosaurus, which required some high-flying stunt work. “To be in an action movie and doing stunt work at this stage in my life and career is crazy,” the 55-year-old Oscar winner said, laughing. “There’s some hardcore running involved in many of my scenes, a lot more than Jurassic Park. In the first movie, we never thought about warming up and doing all this stunt-prep work or rehearsing for the sprints. Steven loved everything in the moment, and trying new things. We were the type of action heroes where it was about showing our honest, real, and true emotions. And so we would pull our quad muscles or hurt our arm or something.
“But for this film, Chris would lead us with stunt prep and do these warm-up exercises. It definitely was more physically challenging, and I really did feel like an action hero!”
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