I mean, the film has this
kind of no holds barred hour long action sequence.
So in the middle of it, which just doesn't stop,
you remember when you read the script and just thinking,
OK, this is this is insane, this mental
Yeah.
But I also like that's what I expected.
You know what I mean?
Like, come on. Like, what else are we going to do in a Jurassic World film -
I mean, of course, there's the science
and then there's the human element that's ultimately the most important.
But you got to do that.
I mean, I got a thrill just as an audience member, just seeing
Laura Dern and Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and back together on screen.
That's just me sort of sitting in a crowd.
How was it being a costar?
I mean I mean, you're an actor, you're in the zone, you're your actual character.
You're not starstruck
or like kind of overwhelmed as a character that's you're inside.
You like going to stay inside.
Can you still be a bit like, say, this is this is pretty cool. Yeah.
I mean, typically, I would say that's certainly the case.
Don't care.
We're here to work and we're, you know, we're working together
and hopefully having a great time doing it.
But because I was a kid when I watched that movie,
and those two were those characters,
and I'm working with them like, what, 20
plus years later as those characters and like
what's going on here?
This is the most bizarre feeling.
It was the most bizarre feeling I ever had on set.
But it's also super cool.
And they were so, so great and gracious, so you know, ended up well.
But I was I was
visibly nervous.
How was it to have been nervous?
How was it acting around dinosaurs? Or dinosaurs?
I mean, is it harder than it looks?
I guess, you know, when people
sort of do that kind of drama school training or kind of learning how to act,
it's all this is so kind of far removed in some ways from the kind of
what you might learn at school, for example, which is kind of
very kind of theater based. No, I wouldn't say so.
Not at all, actually.
I think it lends itself super wonderfully well.
I mean, well, the animatronics do do that.
I mean, they're so beautifully made that it does it for you.
But in terms everything else, imaginations, imagination.
And sometimes I'll use like ludicrous, like imagination for like, you know,
like a family drama.
Like it could be like a pink dinosaur that's like flying around.
It's like, oh, this is just happens to be the case.
It's a dinosaur.
You know?
So, yeah, it just really depends on the situation.
And the only thing that's challenging, again, I said this
1000 times, I feel like I already today, but was being precise,
you know,
like where I am and where I'm
looking at a given moment because you really had no margin for error.
So what do they typically use in those scenes?
Though, like if there is supposed to be a T-Rex fight behind you?
I mean, I know
the kind of tennis ball on a stick is the old fashioned ways
and tennis balls or anything like that.
I think we just were given a mark
for it because again, it's a lot of animatronic,
but I think for some of those other ones, it was like a mark on a green screen.
But again, I didn't really interact with a ton of dinosaurs in this movie,
as you probably remember.
So because of an interview, you said you didn't initially you weren't sure
if you wanted to, but if you don't mind me asking why, why was that?
Yeah, and here is the part where I get admitting that
I um, it just seemed like
it, you know, I just I thought I was going to be
a lot of other one before him.
Yes, but I honestly but like, honestly, it was the most fun,
and I wish I had gotten to do more of it because it was so cool.
Even when they weren't there, I was like, this is awesome.
You know, but I thought,
it's just going to be, like, hyper technical and, like, super rigid.
And just, like, I like acting to just be free as opposed to, like,
you know, that kind of like robotic kind of puppeteer feeling.
Yeah, it was it wasn't like that.
And I found a lot of freedom in it.
But now we need to just go a sequence and you can go to call and say, Look,
hey, yeah, I made it mistake. Give me a few more.
Well, there's always the possibility if you give if you get a few more encounters.
Yeah.
And just a character has a kind of, kind of boop, boop moment, you know, it's
kind of moments when you're like, when you're stealthy
I'm not going to give any spoilers, but your character has moments
like an audience when they go like, yeah.
Have you had the opportunity yet to watch this in a crowd of which I haven't yet.
I have not yet. Hmm. Maybe I should
I sort
of call in, like, in like a soundstage, but I haven't.
I'll think about it. I don't know.
Do you have plans for opening night, though.
Take the family or anything.
My family's in Maryland, and the premiere will be in L.A., you know?
Oh, maybe. I don't know. We'll see.
We'll see. I have some friends coming, but I don't.
I get nervous about those things, so. Yeah, I just say fine.
I wanted to ask
just quickly about working with Colin Trevorrow, because I think that these films are such
that require such a incredible brain, to put it together.
I mean, I know everyone
sort of talks about what Michael Bay does and Transformers
when I was I'm overwhelmed by what he's created.
So, yeah, and Colin's done a fantastic job with this.
And I mean, just for instance, of producing a to
this is show this make you kind of excite you about one day
maybe doing some behind the scenes where he's actually can it
does it make it look quite challenging no this is
I mean this will makes it look daunting because I mean the amount of
knowledge this dude has about dinosaurs in general, I'm like,
I don't know anything that well.
But also just the amount of
yeah, with this,
maybe not this, but like, you know, like some kind of tiny indie,
it's like it's very character focused
that seems more manageable to start be.
I am interested in going behind the lens eventually,
but I also have a great deal of respect of how much time and effort and work it is.
So, you know, you would want to tell a story
that you're really, truly passionate about and also get some reps in
before you, you know, take that plunge.
Thanks so much for talking to me. Likewise, man.
Appreciate you.