Summary

Jurassic World Rebirth claws its way into theaters on July 2.

Collider’s Perri Nemiroff interviewed Luna Blaise, Audrina Miranda, and David Iacono about their roles in the new Jurassic World installment.

In this interview, the trio discuss the awe of filming a Jurassic movie, the challenges of working with dinosaurs, and the exhibit they’d visit first if Jurassic World were real.

The next installment of the Jurassic Park franchise claws its way into theaters on July 2. This time around, Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Rebirth separates itself as a standalone narrative by following a covert team led by Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) on a mission to extract DNA from dinosaurs on a remote island. Zora’s mission is intersected by the Delgado family, who find their vacation disrupted by a dinosaur attack, leading to an unimaginable survival scenario. The Delgado family includes Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben, and Luna Blaise and Audrina Miranda as his daughters, Teresa and Isabella, respectively. Then there’s David Iacono’s Xavier. Reuben may not be the biggest fan of his to start, but Teresa’s self-proclaimed lazy boyfriend always steps up when necessary. In addition to Zora, the foursome find themselves on this dino-filled adventure alongside Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Loomis, Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid, and Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs. In this interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, Iacono, Miranda, and Blaise pinpoint the first moment they felt the awe of making a Jurassic movie, discuss what it was like to have dinosaur scene partners, and reveal whether they’d risk going to a real-life Jurassic World to see their favorite exhibit.
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PERRI NEMIROFF: My first question is inspired by what are now two of my favorite scenes in this franchise. In the first movie, we get that moment when Alan Grant sees the Brachiosaurus for the first time, and here it’s Dr. Loomis seeing the Titanosaurus. I just love how those moments so well express the awe and significance of seeing a dinosaur. I want to know what your version of that was on the Jurassic World Rebirth set, the first time you stopped, looked around and said to yourself, “My god, this is incredible. I’m making a Jurassic movie?” DAVID IACONO: I think for me, it took a while to actually have that moment because I couldn’t process any of it. But when we were in Malta, we were all out on the sailboat together, and it was just us and as minimal crew as possible, because it wasn’t a very big boat. It was a sailboat. We were in the middle of the Mediterranean. I remember I was so hot and sweaty and exhausted, but I just looked out at the horizon, and I saw this armada of ships with the rest of the crew on it all behind us. I was like, “Wow, it takes a village, and we’re a part of that village.” It was truly wonderful to see. AUDRINA MIRANDA: I’d say it was actually one of the first days of filming. We were at this waterfall. LUNA BLAISE: Oh, yeah, that was nice. MIRANDA: It was super, super cool. It was hot, though. So seeing that waterfall, and then we were walking across rocks all together. I think it was just a really good moment. BLAISE: I think for me, it has to be the whole T-Rex raft sequence. I got to shoot that for, like, four days just with me and the crew. It was just a very surreal moment looking up at all of those amazing mountains in Thailand. I’m hip-deep in a swamp, and I’m crying and screaming, and there’s a tennis ball in front of me. I was like, “Oh, okay, this is Jurassic.” Just getting to live that moment and process that on my own was just really, really cool.
Do Dinosaurs Make Good Scene Partners?

The D-Rex sure doesn’t.

I’ll lean into the dinos of it all now. For each of you, of all the dinosaurs that your character gets to encounter, which would you call the most difficult scene partner to work with – the most challenging dinosaur to film opposite? BLAISE: I’d say the D-Rex. MIRANDA: The D-Rex was hard, but the T-Rex, also, with the raft scene, was a little hard. IACONO: I might say Spinos, too, just because we had so much ocean to be looking at. It was kind of hard to pinpoint a specific place of being like, “What are those things?” BLAISE: I think the D-Rex, though, for me. It was so much grander than anything we’d seen before. So, even coming down to just the logistics of height and body, and how big are the teeth compared to these teeth? There was just so much to talk about, where it was just at a much grander scale than anything we’d seen before. So, the D-Rex was so cool. So well lit, too. I’m obsessed with the red lighting! BLAISE: So cool, right?

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I’ll end on a question inspired by our chat yesterday, Luna. For all three of you, if you had the opportunity to visit Jurassic World, are you going, and if you go, what is the very first exhibit you have to visit? BLAISE: I know what I’d say. My favorite is in the original, when John Hammond tells everyone to hop on the little ride at the beginning, and he’s going through all the different slides of all of that, and in the little machine incubator you see just the tiny, tiny little dinos, like this big, and they’re so small. I’d love to see dinos that tiny. I’d love to see them. So I’d like to be in the lab, I guess. I would like to be in the lab. That feels like that’s the safest option, and hopefully you get to see a raptor hatching! BLAISE: Yeah, because you don’t want to be near them when they’re bigger. MIRANDA: I would want to go to the Jurassic World. Even though you might get eaten by a dinosaur, it’s an experience to tell. BLAISE: [Laughs] If you get to tell it! MIRANDA: You could just say, like, “Oh, it bit my foot,” or “I died.” IACONO: I’d probably go raptors, man. I mean, they’re the OGs, the classics. They hunt in packs, and it would just be so interesting to watch. Bold move, but I respect that. IACONO: Hey man, go big or go home.

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