00:00The entire, ah, ah, ah, ah, it was just like a bunch of, ah, so I had no clue what we had done.
00:08Mahershala, Rupert, hello, how are you both doing?
00:10Well, thank you.
00:11This film really feels like a love letter to the original 1993 film.
00:15So what can fans expect from this latest installment and how does it fit into the franchise?
00:20What you said, that it definitely pays homage to the first film.
00:24It's a love letter to Spielberg as well as to the franchise.
00:26You know, Gareth wanted to pay respect to that while doing something that is, I think you'd agree, very unique.
00:34I think it's definitely character-driven as much as the effects and the dinosaurs are amazing.
00:39I really loved watching my colleagues develop these characters and getting to be with them on this journey was really wonderful.
00:47Can you be ready tomorrow?
00:49I can guarantee your safety.
00:50I mean, more or less.
00:52More or less?
00:53It really taps into that sort of Spielberg magic that I think a lot of us can feel very nostalgic about.
01:00Yeah.
01:01And do you have memories of watching Jurassic Park for the first time?
01:05Absolutely.
01:05And that nostalgia, I think, is for a kind of storytelling that Spielberg exemplified, which was both cinematic but also truthful and grounded in very human moments.
01:16When you think about the first film, you think about the kids underneath the jeep thing.
01:21You think about Laura Dern's head being turned to watch the beautiful thing.
01:25And Ian Malcolm and his droplets of water and all that.
01:29It wasn't just, oh, wow, they built a dinosaur.
01:31It was very grounded in human stories.
01:34Life finds a way.
01:36There are so many jump scare moments in this film.
01:39How did you manage to convey that when I imagine you're sometimes looking at not a real dinosaur?
01:47Spoilers.
01:48Maybe, like, is it like a man with, like, tennis balls or what?
01:52A tennis ball.
01:54Yeah, we couldn't afford more than one.
01:55We couldn't afford it.
01:56Tiny budget.
01:57A stick and a tennis ball.
01:59A stick and a ball.
02:00Yeah, a very grubby tennis ball.
02:03And that's it.
02:04The illusion is shattered.
02:06We would, but I think around our last day, I would say, when you came back from having a child.
02:13That's right.
02:13You showed up on set and we had, like, some humans in a dinosaur sort of mask.
02:19That was our kind of first and only time actually having, like, you know, something that felt in the world of a dinosaur.
02:29So it was really a lot of leaning on your imagination.
02:32Oh, my God.
02:33For both of you, is it fair to say that this was quite a different process?
02:37Because I think both of you are used to working on very emotional, human-driven stories.
02:42And this is, like, on such a huge scale.
02:45I don't want to speak for you, but anything else I've ever done?
02:47No, no, I'm with you.
02:48Like you said, I've never done anything on this scale.
02:53Nor have, Mahershala made a really interesting point earlier that I'm not sure I've ever done anything where there's four of us in it.
02:58But we don't really ever work with each other.
03:01Right, okay.
03:02We're together looking outwards all the time.
03:04We don't really have any.
03:06So it's this very, time is very difficult but comforting feeling of an energetic alliance.
03:12But our, the thing that you all can see, we couldn't see.
03:16So that was, you know, it's a funny challenge.
03:18So you've pretty much experienced it for the first time when you saw it.
03:21I haven't seen it.
03:22Absolutely.
03:22You haven't seen it yet?
03:23Absolutely.
03:23He hasn't.
03:24Oh, I've been seeing it at the premiere for the first time.
03:27It's interesting you say that because usually I can go home and sort of replay a scene a little bit in my head to kind of gauge how the work went that day.
03:35And you couldn't, I couldn't do that with this.
03:38Because the only thing I could recall was coming home having screamed the entire day.
03:44It was just like a bunch of, so I had no clue what we had done until actually having seen the film.
03:54I had a much clearer sense of what we had sort of accomplished.
03:58Do we have to get a sample from an egg?
04:00I suppose we could try and get it from the parent.
04:02But they're a flying carnival the size of an F-16.
04:04You were out there shooting in Thailand.
04:06So much like Spielberg was shooting in the jungle in Hawaii for the first one, you really get that sense of, like, texture with the storytelling because it's a real place that you're filming in.
04:15Jonathan Bailey's mentioned, like, shooting out there in the elements, there were, like, snakes swimming past the crew in the water.
04:21I mean, were there any moments like that for you guys where the adrenaline was real?
04:25Yeah, I mean, all of it's real.
04:28I mean, apart from, unfortunately, the dinosaurs.
04:30But the jungle, the swamp, the mangroves, the cliffs, this field behind us.
04:35Falling in the mangroves.
04:36Falling into the water.
04:38That happened to all of us.
04:38That happened except Scarlet.
04:40So you're constantly aware that this is a real environment.
04:43And you are kind of trespassing in another creature's world, hopefully with respect.
04:50And we didn't, you know, we had snake wranglers who would remove them.
04:53They were never killed.
04:54It was always, like, you know, very sort of as humane as possible.
04:57But I had that sense a lot that it was, like, the animals would be, like, you're in my backyard.
05:03No one's dumb enough to go where we're going.
05:05I mean, Jurassic Park is possibly the most iconic score of all time.
05:10And I'd love to know, like, what part music plays in your creative process.
05:14And were there any albums or scores that you listen to on set to get you in sort of in the mood?
05:20I personally always make a character playlist.
05:22And I think what it does is I think, like, a muscle memory thing where I develop a relationship with the playlist.
05:28And I think as soon as I get to work or if I'm in the trailer, the makeup trailer, if I put it on, it kind of helps drop me quickly into the world or the mindset of the character.
05:37For me, there was something about this sort of, frankly, very dangerous pursuit that my character leads everyone else on.
05:47And wondering what degree of kind of devil may care kind of risk at all would you?
05:55I mean, so if you were asking for a song, one of them would be Stone Free with Jimi Hendrix.
06:00Just this kind of, like, almost breakneck, we're nearly there, we're nearly there, we're nearly there, we'll just do it, just do it, just do it.
06:05Because I just thought there's no way, like, you know, Herschel's character has emotional grounding in having a family that he's, you know, has a relationship with.
06:14And I felt like my character didn't have anything like that and therefore could risk everything with impunity.
06:21There was no, there was no kind of love or child or partner or anything.
06:28So it was just this kind of, like, at all costs for whatever the reason.
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