Bryce, I'd love to start with you and ask,
how did it feel to return into the Jurassic World?
It's awesome getting to work in this franchise.
For many reasons.
But the number one reason is because I love the people so much.
Colin Trevorrow for the director,
Chris Pratt, obviously and then getting to come back
and you know, now this time with the legacy cast and then, you know,
working with Dewanda and Mamoudou Athie and Dichen Lachman you know, so many wonderful actors.
So it's it feels
just like a really like minded group of people
who would all gravitate toward one another in any other scenario.
And the fact that we get to kind of
lock arms and playing in this universe and,
and all get to be in the sandbox together with it is really extraordinary.
And I wanted my writing thinking that you had a bit of a say
as to how your character's going to be defined.
How was that to be a part of?
I like to say that I didn't know any better.
You know, I come from like independent film, and I've always had
like a lot of agency so it was a pleasant surprise for sure.
You know, I didn't expect that, you know, blockbuster world.
But Colin not only allowed like the kind of play beforehand,
you know, I did a dialog pass, but also just like the improvization on set, too,
you know, there was just like there was a ton of space and room to play.
And I just feel like overall it was just such a living, breathing
organism and really special to work with a director who had a firm grasp
on what his vision was so that when we weren't wasting time,
we weren't wasting film because we shot on film and, you know,
so that we then had the space to be like, Oh, this thing is happening.
Let's allow and make space for that too.
There are so many instances, so many instances,
whereas like we would do the scene, all this kind of stuff
and then call and be like, OK, let's just do one more.
Take Dewanda, whatever, just do whatever.
And that's always the take.
I'm not exaggerating Like she is.
So the like the is so much the voice
of this character, you know, and, and, you know, I mean,
it's you and your talent and you're bringing your perspective to it.
It's not like it's you Dewanda, but you you inhabited it
in such an organic way that you were able to just like being character
and just give those,
you know, whips and buttons, and it was just done to kill that.
I think you feel so cool.
Bryce, you mentioned the legacy cast
What was that actually like?
Was it quite a surreal experience to see these people that
from the original Jurassic Park
30 years ago, with you right there,
it was surreal to get to work with the legacy cast,
the original cast of Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern,
BD Wong. You know, it was
something that it's sort of like,
you know, we all, in our own ways,
get nervous and starstruck and for clamps
when we're around people that we admire and it all comes off in different ways.
But like no one was casual about it.
It's like no one was like, oh, this is like whatever they're here.
It was it was an event.
And then on top of that, it was a master class.
In acting, there are three actors who are some of our greatest icons,
and they're at the very top of their game.
And so getting to see them not just be there and be the characters,
but actually like dig in to what is happening right now with Dr.
Ian Malcolm. What is happening right now with Dr. Ellie Sattler?
Like, it's it it was so exciting and inspiring,
and I was just like I was just like a little like acting door.
Like, was it was it the same?
Did it feel the same?
Yeah.
I mean, because we had these rehearsals on Sundays especially.
And so we were really kind of open to each other's processes, you know,
it wasn't like normally you kind of especially in that format,
you show the set and you don't see the scenes as much, so to speak.
But, you know, I'm like peeking in Jeff Goldblum's journal, like, look at all that
what are these are these are old. Did you write them down?
You know, it's just it's really it was very special experience
and completely atypical for sure.
And I've read that.
Bryce, you wrote notes throughout the Jurassic World movies
and you fed those back to the director.
Was it quite nice to see that he'd taken on board
some of the things you'd picked up on along the way?
Well, I mean, honestly, there were
there were what I would do is, is I would when folks would have ideas
or say things that they loved or that they kind of hoped for,
I would just kind of like scribble it down, you know, and myself included
and I remember at The Wrap party for Jurassic World
flying themed Jay Bayona I was like, Bryce.
I was just like, so what do what do we want to see?
What do we want to see for like, you know, the follow up for this.
And Jay was like, can't you just rest for a moment?
And and so many people would say,
Blue having a baby and and baby dinosaurs.
I always during Fallen Kingdom, I was like,
there's only one baby dinosaur in this entire movie, you know,
And so it
was just something that was more kind of a a collection of things.
And I have no idea if ideas were influenced by that or not.
Probably they were already happening.
And so, you know, this is very much so
Colin's vision
and Emily Carmichael's vision for where the story was going to go ultimately.
But but I'm a big nerd and I was it was really sweet when like one day
Colin was like, hey, would you send me that?
Like, document you've been kind of building on to over the years.