Making Of Jurassic World Rebirth - Behind The Scenes (2025)

Jurassic World Rebirth is a film that questions humanity's role in the natural world, especially with scientific advancements, and it asks that brilliant question of just because we can, should we? And I think, obviously, for anyone who loves the original Jurassic films and the films that followed, and anyone who loves the natural world, and if anyone who's curious about how we're moving forward in terms of us as humans, this is the movie for you. It's been like a dream of mine to be in the Jurassic family forever. I grew up watching the Jurassic Park movies. One of my first memories of going to the theater was going to see the first Jurassic Park. I think I was like probably 10, 10 or 11, and it was completely mind-blowing. I mean, it was mind-blowing for everybody because the technology that was used to create, you know, all of the visual effects were, they were all brand new, and audiences had never seen anything like that. I really wanted the film to have that little nostalgia to that feeling of watching the original Jurassic Park, you know, and, you know, obviously that was shot on film, and so I just wanted it to feel as cinematic as possible, and so the idea, like, I felt like this is my chance, you know, we've got a massive crew, they're all people who've shot on film before, like if I don't do it now, I might never, you know, actually have made a film in my career, and so I saw this as, like, this is my chance to do it, and I just held on to it for dear life, like, I'm not going to give this one up, and it was quite a thing, but eventually, yeah, it all went ahead, and I'm so glad. Gareth has a mind that is completely different from mine. He can visualize things, he can visualize things that are really spectacular, just fantastic images, but what makes him a gifted director is he can not only visualize them, he can figure out how to bring them to reality, and that's the line that separates somebody who's kind of good from somebody who's really terrific. I had just so many questions, and I'm just always curious as to how something is going to unfold and come together, but I could feel the propulsiveness of the story. It never sits too long, so whether it was on land or sea, what was important was that it was pushing forward, like moving along, and things were happening, and decisions and tough choices had to be made throughout. It has adventure, it has friendship and loyalty, and the portrayal of those things. It has an almost impossible task that you just root for everyone to complete. It has family, it has friendship, it has, as you would expect, the meeting of the animal and human worlds, and a completely viable plot. It was a really crazy experience, and one that I will never, ever, ever forget, and myself and Audrina and Manuel and David, we, us four, have been together practically every single day for the last four months, and so you create a bond with those people for sure. What David Kepp brought to this story, just like he had in the original Jurassic Park, was humor and scares, and I think he also put us in a unique situation with the characters that you have not seen before. It's a new storyline, it's a rebirth of the original movie. So when you meet our family, the Delgados, we are on a sailboat trying to just go on a boat sail because it's my sister, she's going to college, and so just one last trip, and then all of a sudden we get hit by a mosasaur, but we don't know it's a mosasaur, and then it capsizes, and then the story goes on from there. I played Ruben Delgado, and we find him first, you know, we're introduced to his family, and they're making this trip on his beloved boat, La Mariposa, and he's doing this trip with his daughters, and it's kind of like, you know, he has this thing where his daughter is, you know, she's a teenager, and she's about to go to college, and you know, dads and teenagers don't have a very good relationship sometimes, and you know, it's kind of like a, and you know, he's doing this as a, I guess it's a goodbye to her, and you know, trying to just bond, you know, and yeah, they go to this trip, and they've been doing it all their lives, and then, you know, some misfortunes happen in the trip, and we end up in this extreme situation where, you know, a group of people, unknown people that have a very specific mission rescue us. There's this big pharmaceutical company that's trying to go get this medicine that can be made out of the blood of these three species of dinosaurs that only still exist on this one small location in the middle of nowhere, and yet, despite the fact that dinosaurs didn't really respond very well to the global environment, they're still trying to make use of them, and so on their way there, they accidentally run into a family that is, has nothing to do with dinosaurs, and doesn't really want anything to do with dinosaurs, but they are met with dinosaurs. Scarlet's kind of like the full package, like, you know, it's not really anything she doesn't do really well. She's like super smart, she's got really good instincts about storytelling, and she's actually, she's a really good ally in sometimes where you, like, if she, if there's ever, like, an issue, you're niggling in the back of your head where you're like, I'm not sure about this, this idea, or I don't know how to do this in a way that's, when she comes to set, she'll normally go, hey Gareth, it's really cool and everything, there's just one little thing here, and it'll be like, yeah, I'm glad you said that, because I was thinking exactly the same thing, and she's like, well, what if we do this, or what if we do that, and it's like, it's a really, like, from a storytelling point of view, like, it's really great to have an actress who, and she's a filmmaker as well, so to have an actress who not only is fantastic, but also knows, you know, you're ultimately telling a story, and like, you've got, you're trying to lead the audience into this thing over here. Gareth is, has an incredible visual vocabulary, he can see the whole film in his mind, and you know that because you see him often going like this. He's like, really thinking things through all the time, because he can, I feel the film is like, playing in his mind, which is amazing, and he's, you know, he's operating the Steadicam himself, and he's really, you know, he has, I think his, his strength is really in his, you know, imagination, he has like an incredibly, you know, beautifully organized imagination that like, when you talk to him about how a scene's gonna, like, what, how a scene will play out, or like, what happened before these circumstances right now, he leads you through the story, like, as if you're watching a film. I think Henry's really intrigued by Zora, he's never met anyone like her, but also he, I think, is, seems to be, in a sort of animal sense, quite empathetic, and he picks up on the fact that she's obviously experienced some really dark things, and, and she's roped in for this final mission, obviously, because of the money, and in the hands of Scarlett Johansson, I think she's a bit of an icon. Yeah, and they, they do really click, and they click not only because they're inherently good people, but there's, I think, a real fascination, and it's to do with a very sort of opposing, apparent opposing interests and motives. I think Zora's impressed by Loomis, you know, he is incredibly enthusiastic and passionate, and, and has so much information, and, you know, I think as she gets to know him better, she understands more of his values, which I think she's impressed by. She calls him an adrenaline junkie, he's actually like a very adventurous person. Mr. Work here didn't tell us everything that we need to know. Look, this island was a laboratory of sorts. Kreb's job is to move in the shadows between the sort of FDA world of drug testing and financing that, and the slightly less, perhaps, legal world of how such materials might be obtained. So he's the one with the little black book who has a Zora, Scarlett's character, on speed dial, and he has Loomis, the scientist, also in his contacts, and he's able to put together a team of people to go and do this incredibly dangerous mission. There's always an iconic vehicle in Jurassic movies, and I was so excited that I, I guess, I think I might be the only one who gets to ride it. I am, yeah, I think I'm the only one who gets to drive it, and it is somewhere between a tank and a Humvee, and I think they took the, the innards out of like a, like a Chevy Suburban, like a big old kind of SUV thing, and then the guys went to town on the outside and made this crazy badass thing, which looks like you could drive it into a redwood, and the redwood would just go, and then we slipped and slided all around on the mud in the middle of a forest in Thailand. Which is, again, just unabashedly great fun. I don't even know how to describe the scope of this film, because it goes, it starts off in one place that is so different than where it ends up. It's like, it starts out in this urban jungle, and then we're on the water for this period of time that becomes just a total, you know, it's like Jaws had a baby with Jurassic or something like that, and the movie is just this giant spectacle. It really is absolutely as big as the dinosaurs that we're collecting dino samples from. It's just like, it's, it's huge.