Thrown into the chaos of Jurassic World Rebirth, their characters panicked—but the actors never did.
In this episode of Seen on the Screen, Jacqueline Coley sits down with Luna Blaise and David Iacono, two rising stars who play Theresa Delgado and Xavier Dobbs—a young couple belonging to the Delgado family storyline. Swept into a world of dinosaurs, mercenaries and mission specialists, their characters bring a relatable civilian perspective to the prehistoric pandemonium.
Luna and David reveal the whirlwind casting process that brought them into the iconic franchise, what it was like filming the epic T-Rex raft sequence, how they built real-life family dynamics with co-stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Audrina Miranda, and why director Gareth Edwards encouraged them to play on set. Plus, they reflect on their earlier breakout roles (Luna on Fresh Off the Boat and David on The Summer I Turned Pretty) and bring their behind-the-scenes competitive spirit to life.
In this episode of Seen on the Screen, Jacqueline Coley sits down with Luna Blaise and David Iacono, two rising stars who play Theresa Delgado and Xavier Dobbs—a young couple belonging to the Delgado family storyline. Swept into a world of dinosaurs, mercenaries and mission specialists, their characters bring a relatable civilian perspective to the prehistoric pandemonium.
Luna and David reveal the whirlwind casting process that brought them into the iconic franchise, what it was like filming the epic T-Rex raft sequence, how they built real-life family dynamics with co-stars Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Audrina Miranda, and why director Gareth Edwards encouraged them to play on set. Plus, they reflect on their earlier breakout roles (Luna on Fresh Off the Boat and David on The Summer I Turned Pretty) and bring their behind-the-scenes competitive spirit to life.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Other people may talk shit about us, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And by the way, to even get closer Menuel on
the bonyan tree while you're doing it, I know what
it happens.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That's not impressive. I was there break.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, couple, brother and sister in real life, but I
really love it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Hello, I'm Jacqueline Coley.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome to Scene on the Screen, brought to you by
Make It Universal and Rotten Tomatoes, where we talk movies
with some of the people behind the scenes at NBC Universal.
My guests today are two of the stars of Jurassic
World Rebirth, Luna Blaze and David Iacono. On today's episode,
you'll hear about filming a scene that was initially imagined
for the original nineteen ninety three Jurassic.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Park, how the Delgados developed their.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Authentic family dynamic, and you'll see some real life competitive
spirits between Luna and David. Luna, David, Welcome to Scene
on the Screen. Hi, So I'm going to start here
(01:11):
because we're just fresh off I think the world kind
of getting a glimpse of this film, but I'd love
to start with both of you talking about like how
you got the part. I mean this is being a
part of Jurassic World. There's a process, So Luna, I'll
start with you.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I did a tape and I didn't hear anything for
like at least three months, so I was like, okay,
well that didn't go my way obviously, so I forgot
about it and let it go. And then Jurassic wanted
to do a zoom with me. So I got on
a zoom thing with I think it was with our
(01:46):
casting director and a hidden producer and and you know what,
art casting director I such a poker face. I was like, oh,
I'm hated.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm hated. I'm hated. No one likes me.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is crazy, Like I did not do a good job,
like I am you.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Know what, this is not mine.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And then about two weeks later I had gotten another
zoom call which was with Gareth Nina and like we
just we just did it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And then like a few days later I got the
call that I had gotten it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Interesting process not like that long, just because it was
so based out. But when it was go time, it
was go time. There was no time to think or
act or do anything. It was like you got it, Okay,
go on a plane tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow, that's what it was. Did you have to go
on a plane the next day as well? No, I
did it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I think my process was shorter than that. I think
I I like in terms of actual time, like I
sent in a tape.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And then oh you got your call back like a
kind of read after kind of yeah, it was like
maybe two weeks afterwards.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I sent a tape and I felt good about it.
I got dan jumped on a call back with I
think it was just Gareth I think Gina, casting director,
and then he was like can you swim by the way,
And I was like yeah, yeah, why yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I was like I'm an amazing swimmer. I like I'm
a doggy paddler.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I can't. Did you know how to swim though?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Really?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I grew up competitively swimming, so like I was
like ready to go, like, yeah, I swim, And then yeah,
I think I think hit up my obviously hit up
my manager first before I found out, and like I
was just out to dinner with my family and my
manager came to the dinner and like spoke to my
mom and surprised me and we had like a really
nice night.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So at the premiere, I was like near both of
your sections, and I will.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Just say they were a little boisterous. They were cheered.
I could tell where your fans were, to tell every
family was. But I love that they cheered so a
loud and all of the great moments.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I will add, Yeah, it was sweet. It was cool.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was cool to see like everyone not only just
like our family, but like the entire theaters just reactions
to the whole thing was just so unbelievable and very like.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Real.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
For folks that haven't seen the film, play a couple.
Manuel plays your father who is taking all on a
sort of boating trip throughout the ocean and dinosaurs emerge.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I played Teresa Delgado, which is the eldest sister in
the del Gatto family. There's Ruben Delgado as our father,
who has played in Manuel Garcia Rufo and uh yeah,
she's just a young, bright, spirited teenager who's not ready
for the uh the tasks.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That are about to be at hand.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I played Xavier Dobbs. He is dating Teresa Delgado. He
is enemies with Ruben Delgado and like a neutral friend development.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, I think she's got beef, honestly.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Not.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
By the end of the that is good, Luna, tell
me a little bit about your character, because I feel
like we kind of get introduced to them in a
very desperate situation, so we don't learn as much about
them until it What would you want folks to kind
of know about her before she gets terrorized by.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
All these dinos.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Honestly, there's not actually much to say, because I find
it really cool the fact that these people are your normal,
just family, Like there's not there's not much to them,
like they're they're just a normal family on a boat
trip and like they get built pretty shitty hands, but
(05:22):
I know that they're you know, they're not they're not prepared.
There's nothing crazy to them, like comparison in comparison to
the to the to the like a there's an A side,
there's a B side, and then it becomes a C side,
all of them together and like it's you know, in
comparison to them, we're like.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't I don't even know. We're like we're like less.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Than civilians to them, we're like they know everything and
so we're just there like normal people. But I think that, like,
you know, what's so amazing about this movie and what
is so cool about this whole universe is the fact that,
like in the Jurassic franchise, is like they do put
normal people in these situations because number one, like humans,
we can do anything. But also it's just like it's
(06:08):
cool to see that like survival instinct sort of situation,
you know, where it's like me, like a young girl
in this movie doing the raft scene solo, going to
like save like her family and putting her life on
the line.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Like that's just fight or flight mode.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So I think truly like all these characters, especially my
character Teresa, the whole time, she's just in flight or
fighter flight mode. You know, she's just trying to save
her family, and like she's gonna put her life and
her heart on the line, and that's what she's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's a fair description, but I would say, David, with
your character, it's all of that. But I think your
character has a little bit extra something totally he puts
into everything.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I think he copes with his insecurity with humor.
I think I think when when we first meet him,
he is introduced as kind of just the lazy boy friend,
and he knows that about he's pretty self aware as well,
but he's he's an insecure dude. All he does know
is that he loves his girlfriend like a lot, like
maybe more than himself, because he doesn't have a lot
(07:10):
of self love, and you kind of learned that about
him as the movie goes on. So he likes to
cope with that with humor and with comedy and with
you know, he doesn't If there's ever like a sentimental
moment between him and Ruben, he brushes it off with
a joke, ye know what I mean, And it makes
for a great comedic relief in the film. But I
think as you grow with him, you realize that he
(07:31):
has a lot of self esteem as used. But it's
also kind of really sweet and profound that all of
his intentions with his girlfriend are really pure and like wholesome,
and he loves her and because of that, he loves
her family. And you don't learn that about him at first,
but he's layered. So it's it's a fun journey to play.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, And I think, like we've had pseudo couples, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Nice to have like a like a real you know
what I mean, like not warring couple, just like these
are two young people in love in a hopeless place.
To quote Rihanna, let's dive into our popcorn buckets. Just
so you know, this is not a team effort. Some
(08:14):
of it is going to be directed to each one
of you without what No.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I mean, y'all want to make it anything. We can
make a competition wins.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Speaking of competition, Luna, this is yours. Which is your
first quote, which one says, I'm rich enough to be invited,
but not rich enough that you can ask me to
donate money.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wait, is this from any movie? It's from anything. It
could be movies or television, but it's something that you
probably know or have seen on the screen related not
necessarily okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Which one says, I'm rich enough to be invited, but
not rich enough that you can ask me to donate.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This is something that you have maybe been a part
of seeing on the screen. It could be it. Don't
necessarily get wrapped up with movies. I want to say
that it's from comedy.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Getting Close, Getting Close. It's somewhat related to the Mariposa
and yeah, oh my god, I know who it is.
It's Constant fresh off the boat. Yes, yes, because I
can hear her say it.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yes, he totally totally.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So when I was actually thinking that before you said
the thing, I knew you were there because I just
know Jessica and that show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And like I just I that is absolutely Fresh off
the Boat. So tell me your relationship obviously to Fresh
off the Boat if.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You want to let folks know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my gosh, well just to tell of the world. Yes,
I was on this show called Fresh off the Boat
for four years on ABC, starring Constance Who and Randall Park.
It was, honestly, he stands the test of time in
a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Genuinely.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It was the first like Asian full like full starring
Asian cast of a comedy show.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
For me.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It was the first LGBTQ character since Ellen came out
on television, So that was.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
A big thing for me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, on network, on network television, So that was really cool.
It's like it definitely it like hit a lot of
like milestone.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
In a comedy. They've like they've had drama yea, yeah,
like in a comedy and also like with a teenager.
It was really really cool. But I loved doing that show.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
It was so fun to you know, just like work
on like a like a comedy network show that was
just about like culture and.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Nineties and hip hop and like family.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I met like all the sick like basketball players, Scottie
Pippenron like Shaq Shack came the show.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, like the guest stars. Yeah, because everyone just wanted
to like be in the nineties like thing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It was sick because there's usually people like Eddie the
lead characters, like people that.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He was like obsessed with, Any Wong the chef.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So it's his memoirs based off him. Yeah, and Ali Wong.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Ali Wong is amazing Ken Jong. He's in the show, Like,
oh my god, amazing. That's like, yeah, I started that
when I was twelve. That was like such an amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
All Right, we're gonna move on to our next quote.
Great job. I'm scared, David, sir, this is your quote.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But I think about her all the time, and it
hurts my chest physically hurts not to be able to tell.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Her that I'm in love with her.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Is it something that he's been in.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
No, I don't think so it is okay, okay, cool,
So this is somewhere because I was like, I was like,
for some reason, I thought I was gonna be a quote.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's someone said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Man, is one of two answers. It can be. I
don't want it to be wrong.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
It's I mean, but you said it was summer.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I want to get it. Who did you know who
it is?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, is it Conrad?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I think it's Conrad? Right, yeah, because it's not Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, yeah, shout out Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You both start in like yours is a little bit old,
younger than teen but gets to teen. And I think
it's interesting you both have the experience of being on
these shows that have these huge fandoms like do you
feel the summer I turned pretty vibes when like you're
walking through New York to people.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Be like, oh it's up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah man, I love I love when people comes.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What's been your favorite experience from being on that show?
What was your favorite thing that you guys got to do?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh? Man, that's a great question. I feel like so
it was on the first season, the second season. The
first season was just so cool because it felt like
a like a group project summer at like summer camps
that we were all doing because you know, I hadn't
come out yet. There were fans of the books obviously,
but it was it was like very much our own
private thing. So we would just I can't curse, right,
(12:57):
you can curse? Can you just walk around like all
the time we would like there was one day I
love those guys so much, man, because now they're like
my best friends in the world. That's the best thing
I got out of it. But like, there was one
time they all came over my apartment without telling me,
and they just like bang on my door and there
they opened the door. I was like, hey, I just
like sleeping. I was like, oh, what's up? And they
were like ner nerve fight and I was like, okay,
(13:19):
a random nerve fight. I felt like we were kids,
just like hanging out and one of my roommate now
like they're my best friends in the whole world. So
that's like one of the one of the greatest things
that ever happened to me.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
To me, I love it. Haven't even seen it yet,
the movie No Oh you Gotta.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You're very excited. I then like rented out like a
theater in July and like invited all my friends and
family and stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
That's gonna be amazing. All right, lovely, lovely, all right.
Moving on to our next quote. This is for either
one of you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I don't know how y'all want to compete on this,
but yeah, let's see other people stop. Other people may
talk shit about us, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Up by way to even get closer. Menuel on the
bonyan tree while you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It, I know what it happens. That's not impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I was there, Okay, couple brother and sister in real life,
and I really love it, like I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, you will not win. I dig it, I dig it.
I'm not competitive too.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Let's before we move on, because this is sort of
what you alluded to. Is Manuel I think has a
his character. Ruben has a bit of a journey with
your character. It definitely. I think your character even says
it best.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Took me a while to get it too, you know
what I mean, Like like he has he has multitudes.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I think it'd be interesting for y'all to talk about
that dynamic because you kind of played the daughter of
the dad that's giving you the disappointed face because of
your boyfriend, and you're like, come on, and then you
have to pay the no offense the disappointment. But talk
about how you sort of interacted with Manuel on that
because you'll have some great scenes together.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, I mean I think that, like the number one
thing is is, you know, we just had we just
had so much fun together, so being able to paint
this like on screen family picture, it wasn't any it
was it wasn't faking it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
We like fully became that, you know, like we were
we were all in.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Thailand together, staying at the same hotel and just with
each other every single day, with whether we liked it
or not. So it was like it was like we
have to get used to each other. We were next
door to each other, so we you know, we became
close very very quickly. And you know, it wasn't it
(15:41):
wasn't pretend.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It just was like that's what he said. Yeah, no
acting was required. Yeah, there was no acting required.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It really was like me and Manuel even over like lines,
would literally like bicker like dad and daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Like it was like things like that all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And I'd be like Ben, well, yes, what are you
talking about obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And He's just like, oh man, you're not gonna get it.
It's not gonna land.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Both of you, I think have incredible comedic moments, but
I will say he talked about it because your character
is tasked with being sort of like the comedic moment,
like even the scene with the raptors, like everything is
like that. How did you sort of like talk about
like the timing stuff with Garets, because like it's all
it's almost like I would rather be chased by a
(16:32):
dinosaur because I know I could fake scared, but like
to be the like turn it on its head and
be comedic in that.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
So did you talk to Gareth about how y'all wanted
to do that?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I think at the beginning I sat down with him,
as I think each cast member sat down with Garrets individually,
and just talked about what his vision was for everything.
And I think what he was really excited about was
that in his world a lot of like early Spielberg stuff.
I think what he loves about it is that so
much of the scene is alive, even if it's not
the focal point of that specific scene. And I love that.
(17:02):
I was like, dude, I will I will be alive
in the background. I want to add to this as
much as possible. So he really made it feel like
it was like a playground. It was like, you know,
if if it doesn't work, I'll real it back in
or we'll cut it, you know, like so play that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
He did really like leave everything up to play.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, totally. It was so like liberating, and I felt
the more I tried stuff, the more confident I felt,
because it's it's scary at first, like the biggest movie
I've ever been a part of, so I was nervous,
but once I felt like I could he trusted me,
I trusted myself a little bit more. And I think
a lot of really good stuff made the movie.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So I love that. Well, great job.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm not even going to try to decide who won
that point because I feel like I might not be.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Like, I know, y'all keeping score.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It was not supposed to be a competition, by the way,
but I love that y'all took it here.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We have had competitive like word search games. I didn't
even know you could do that.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
These dinosaurs were too dangerous for the original part. Yeah,
I do love your quote from him at the beginning,
because I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I felt that your character was s white, like very
prophetic and like his predictions and things, and.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
When he was like.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So fun, he was done by the way he was
a pharmaceutical executive. He was already operating from it a
low position.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
But the minute you said that, I was like counting
the minute.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It was such.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And then I also really appreciated your character. Not gonna
say what, but she has a confrontation with Rupert and
I just love that, like in the midst of Dinosaurs
carnage or whatever, she was standing on the business of like, no,
I'm going after that. That was a great scene. I'm
sure it's an act just to play.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It was fun. It was fun. It was cold, we
were in London, it was yasing the old outside, Oh
my god. And we were in a night shoot. It
was like four or something.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It was so late, and uh, and we just like
we just we just did it. It was just crazy
and and we were just dealing with such an insane
week and and I just remember, Yeah, I was just
so excited to just finally get the moment to attack Grouper.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
It was just amazing. It wasn't gotten in real life
because I love that man to death. Yeah, but in
the movie it was worth it, and it was for
the cinema. It was amazing. Literally for the plot. I know,
we try we try over here.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Amazing. We are ready to move on to the next
popcorn bucket. All right, So this one is true or false. Again,
these are things that you have hopefully seen on the screen.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
True or false.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The scene where the Dolgatto family encounters the t Rex
on a wrath is adapted from a moment in Michael
Crichton's Origin novel.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, that's true, you got right.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, it was not filmed up until now. So when
did they tell you about that scene? Because that is
a huge moment in this one. And also I will say, uh,
once you know what you're doing on that one, you're like, this.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Is gonna be a while. Actually, how long did it
take to film that? It was a lot of me
for a while. I had I had like three days
filming by myself, just doing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Swamp work, just doing swamp, doing boardwalk, grabbing, doing a
whole other two days inside the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
So that whole scene was a lot of just me.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And then I actually wasn't even because we shot the
whole thing separately, each one of those like their coverage
like that was just that yeah, or like I was
there for like a second.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
But yeah, how long did y'll film the other section.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Was definitely like a couple of days, maybe a week.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't know, because that's just like a one moment.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But then I was more talking about when you're as
a family going down the river like that, Oh that
was London.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Oh that was that was London. Was London, which was
like months later that it was freezing cool.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You were in this place called Lee Valley in this
like it was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Built for the Olympics in twenty twelve for the rafting
for the yeah first sorry kayaking.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Kayakak yeah, and so like there's all of the it's
instane there, all these like obstacles that are built under
the water because it's made for.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Boats to be It's not the way it was like
thirty two degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It's not made for people to be in the water.
So we're in this water like bombing and weaving out
away and like actually survived. And then our stunt people
obviously went in the more like rapid section of the
rapids and did all the real hard work.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
But it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That raft bit was so fun. I remember having a
conversation with like towards the beginning of filming. Uh, it
was sort of like a really cool surprise moment for
me when I got the script, because I remember just
talking to David Capp and Gareth and they were like,
we just want to tell you that, like this is
this is your this is your moment.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Like then, like this is like something that we are
so excited for.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And David wrote the whole like swamp raft grabbing that
whole moment for the original Jurassic movie. Yeah, and they
couldn't get it and they couldn't get it in So
it was like just such an honor and like so amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, it was so cool tying it back to ninety three.
We gotta do that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, all right, let's move on to our next true false,
true or false. The rebirth version of the Spinosaurus was
redesigned to reflect new scientific discoveries, including the idea that
it hunted in water.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
As well as on lap.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
He's probably true.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I feel like that's true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Inspired by again suggesting the spinosaurus was semi aquatic, the
filmmakers reimagined it with more powerful hind lens, webbed feet
at a broader tail for swimming, and then they had
it terrorized you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
They did do that. They really didn't did that. Let's
be real if I will say and men will even
mentioned this one.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Audrina has a scene where she has to like stare
up at the monster and like just be terrified.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She nailed it too. She steals the movie.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Do Laura steals the movie? But she is right there,
rob in the bank when I'm kidding? True or false?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The Spanish phrase on Isabella's Pelican logo te translates to
like find true? When did they well you speaks?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I was like, did you know?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Did they tell you that this is what we're doing?
Like they were like, no, they did, They.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Did, they did, because it's it's a it's from the
original Well I find you, of course, But I meant
the like on.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
The tea, like the costumes. They always have it on
the tea like it was it always.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It was always. They never told me that that she
was there. I just had I noticed it was like.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The thing. I love it. That's super cute. Though, Also,
you guys have the same costumes the whole time.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
How many did you burn through or do they just
keep recycling because it does get dirty or dirty years
it goes along.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But I'm just like mine was a lot more intricate.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We had to get clearance from David Bowie's like a
state Toto wear the David Bowie T shirt on screen.
So and there's only very few of the like original
vintage T shirts from the Spider Tour.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
So, like, that was a very big conversation that we had.
So that took a while. So we did not have many.
You're like, no, we did not have many. No, it
was a lot of use. What is it, reduce, reuse, recycle, Yeah,
that's what it. That's what it was. So yeah, a
lot of the same shorts, same commers, a lot of
(24:48):
the same for me, and you still managed to not
find your shirt shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Every opportunity I had, I took that thing off.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was hot out there.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well, I'm glad that you suffered for your art because
we all got to enjoy the results.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I appreciate it so amazing. Y'all did again stellar.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I think that's a tie for the wind except for
you get the bonus credit, because you got the bonus
credit on top of everything else, because because.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
She was like Manuel on the boat with the thing,
and that was what I'm saying, y'all, you give me
your break, yo, I'm gonna a girl get the extra credit.
I want it's a tie breaker. But y'all really did tie.
We tied, but like I just got a little bit extra.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I got a little still, Let's see the audience can
judge you on your rapid fire answers, and maybe you
could come back from the wind.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah again. Come to.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Favorite movie snack sat Watermelon just that that's probably my favorite.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I mean, I go, I go popcorn, popcorn, cherry, Coca
cola and popcorn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I've only just covered cherry coke this year. I've never
had any in my life. I'm not even getting I'm
actually not kidding. I literally discovered it.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I know it's so good. It makes me upset that
I can't have it. Besides the movie theater. Last show
that you binged.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
For the first time time, favorite character Alreadie Buco that's
my guy.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Last show that I binged? Oh my god, I watched
so much television well any picket.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I mean I watch everything because I'm actually a couch potato.
So your friends and neighbors, John Ham Sirens.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Right now, I'm currently watching Love Island USA. As you should.
Let me just say when this isn't like give it. Oh,
actually I'm not gonna say that. Such great TV. I
was like, like, watch.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
TV. No, no, no, seriously though, I'm actually very heavily
addicted to leve Island, USA. I don't know how they
like it's almost like a trance that they have on people,
and like why do I keep watching?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And why do I want to know what's going to
happen to these people? Because of characters like people like
Ace and Hooda.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't have to wait, but I'm not like caught up. Really,
I know I'm on episode seven.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Well then you know about Hooda. Then you know that
I know about hoo yeah, and also you know already
about Ace. That's a crazy girl.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is they both are made for reality television. That
is all I will say.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Favorite actor, Oh, oh my god, you know what just
came to my mind?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Crazy, so random, but like in everything he does, Krystalph
Waltz is a great every single thing he does.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Oh my god, he's amazing. That's are too good ones.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I don't know what Brand came to mine.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Actually, that was the second answer that Manuel gave. His
first answer was Daniel da Lewis. But then he said,
if you asked him about a dead actor, he said,
Marlon Brand.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh yeah, Denzel for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That's another good one, I said Paul Newman for because.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Going to the movie theater alone? Hoffins, Sorry, you love
character actors? Yeah, you really do, Like you're like, literally
I love a character actor. Yeah, yeah, I think y'all
going to going to the movie theater alone? Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
What about you? Literally? I do it too often? That's
a favorite. No, No, I do it too often. That
Like the Chinese theater in la is like are you good?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Are you? No? No? No no.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
If anybody at the theater says that, you'd be like,
I am keeping the movie industry dropped up.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I am. They're just like, do you have any social business?
Is my social life? This is where I get indignant.
I don't be asking me why I'm here. You know,
you know it's true, true, because let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
If I am here, obviously, I'm coping with it way more, yeah,
proactively than other people business.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Business. ILL be asking questions. I love that. I love
that it's gonna get weird in a minute. So that
one hit close to home. Can you tell.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It did?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Can ask me question? What's your favorite classic Universal films?
This is any Universal film? It's over twenty five years old,
so before two thousand.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The first thing that came to mine is Psycho Original Psycho.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh that's a great one. You could see that on
the Universal tours.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Do that exactly. That's why I came, because I did
the I was like, that's actually.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah. I was going to say, like anything Ambling did
is always a good A lot of people ambling.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I was going to say, like, e t uh, I'd
say Hitchcock. That's universal, isn't it. Yeah, hitch talk as universal.
Back to the Future, The future is amazing. You've seen
the play I did. It's so good. I'm sorry, I
love it. There's so many Frankenstein. Those are all good ones.
(30:12):
Frankenstein's a classic horror. You guys made some good ones.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And now you're part of the one that so many
people name O God in Jurassic Yeah, to say you're
you're also a part of but no, no, no no,
because that's like kind of self serving, because you're part
of the legacy now too. It's like, I don't want
to name my movies, guys, I want to give credit
to the other movie.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And I say, honestly, like a new like Oppenheimer, Yeah,
well that's new. Oh sorry, that's that's that's a new one,
but it's like a classic. It's gonna be it will
be immortalized.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, David and Luma, thank you so much. Thank you
for being here. Yeah, so much fun. Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thanks
Other people may talk shit about us, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
And by the way, to even get closer Menuel on
the bonyan tree while you're doing it, I know what
it happens.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
That's not impressive. I was there break.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Okay, couple, brother and sister in real life, but I
really love it.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Hello, I'm Jacqueline Coley.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome to Scene on the Screen, brought to you by
Make It Universal and Rotten Tomatoes, where we talk movies
with some of the people behind the scenes at NBC Universal.
My guests today are two of the stars of Jurassic
World Rebirth, Luna Blaze and David Iacono. On today's episode,
you'll hear about filming a scene that was initially imagined
for the original nineteen ninety three Jurassic.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Park, how the Delgados developed their.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Authentic family dynamic, and you'll see some real life competitive
spirits between Luna and David. Luna, David, Welcome to Scene
on the Screen. Hi, So I'm going to start here
(01:11):
because we're just fresh off I think the world kind
of getting a glimpse of this film, but I'd love
to start with both of you talking about like how
you got the part. I mean this is being a
part of Jurassic World. There's a process, So Luna, I'll
start with you.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I did a tape and I didn't hear anything for
like at least three months, so I was like, okay,
well that didn't go my way obviously, so I forgot
about it and let it go. And then Jurassic wanted
to do a zoom with me. So I got on
a zoom thing with I think it was with our
(01:46):
casting director and a hidden producer and and you know what,
art casting director I such a poker face. I was like, oh,
I'm hated.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
I'm hated. I'm hated. No one likes me.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is crazy, Like I did not do a good job,
like I am you.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Know what, this is not mine.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And then about two weeks later I had gotten another
zoom call which was with Gareth Nina and like we
just we just did it.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
And then like a few days later I got the
call that I had gotten it.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Interesting process not like that long, just because it was
so based out. But when it was go time, it
was go time. There was no time to think or
act or do anything. It was like you got it, Okay,
go on a plane tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Wow, that's what it was. Did you have to go
on a plane the next day as well? No, I
did it.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I think my process was shorter than that. I think
I I like in terms of actual time, like I
sent in a tape.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And then oh you got your call back like a
kind of read after kind of yeah, it was like
maybe two weeks afterwards.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I sent a tape and I felt good about it.
I got dan jumped on a call back with I
think it was just Gareth I think Gina, casting director,
and then he was like can you swim by the way,
And I was like yeah, yeah, why yeah I was.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I was like I'm an amazing swimmer. I like I'm
a doggy paddler.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I can't. Did you know how to swim though?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Really?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I grew up competitively swimming, so like I was
like ready to go, like, yeah, I swim, And then yeah,
I think I think hit up my obviously hit up
my manager first before I found out, and like I
was just out to dinner with my family and my
manager came to the dinner and like spoke to my
mom and surprised me and we had like a really
nice night.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
So at the premiere, I was like near both of
your sections, and I will.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Just say they were a little boisterous. They were cheered.
I could tell where your fans were, to tell every
family was. But I love that they cheered so a
loud and all of the great moments.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I will add, Yeah, it was sweet. It was cool.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was cool to see like everyone not only just
like our family, but like the entire theaters just reactions
to the whole thing was just so unbelievable and very like.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Real.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
For folks that haven't seen the film, play a couple.
Manuel plays your father who is taking all on a
sort of boating trip throughout the ocean and dinosaurs emerge.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I played Teresa Delgado, which is the eldest sister in
the del Gatto family. There's Ruben Delgado as our father,
who has played in Manuel Garcia Rufo and uh yeah,
she's just a young, bright, spirited teenager who's not ready
for the uh the tasks.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
That are about to be at hand.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I played Xavier Dobbs. He is dating Teresa Delgado. He
is enemies with Ruben Delgado and like a neutral friend development.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Okay, I think she's got beef, honestly.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Not.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
By the end of the that is good, Luna, tell
me a little bit about your character, because I feel
like we kind of get introduced to them in a
very desperate situation, so we don't learn as much about
them until it What would you want folks to kind
of know about her before she gets terrorized by.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
All these dinos.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Honestly, there's not actually much to say, because I find
it really cool the fact that these people are your normal,
just family, Like there's not there's not much to them,
like they're they're just a normal family on a boat
trip and like they get built pretty shitty hands, but
(05:22):
I know that they're you know, they're not they're not prepared.
There's nothing crazy to them, like comparison in comparison to
the to the to the like a there's an A side,
there's a B side, and then it becomes a C side,
all of them together and like it's you know, in
comparison to them, we're like.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
I don't I don't even know. We're like we're like less.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Than civilians to them, we're like they know everything and
so we're just there like normal people. But I think that, like,
you know, what's so amazing about this movie and what
is so cool about this whole universe is the fact that,
like in the Jurassic franchise, is like they do put
normal people in these situations because number one, like humans,
we can do anything. But also it's just like it's
(06:08):
cool to see that like survival instinct sort of situation,
you know, where it's like me, like a young girl
in this movie doing the raft scene solo, going to
like save like her family and putting her life on
the line.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Like that's just fight or flight mode.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
So I think truly like all these characters, especially my
character Teresa, the whole time, she's just in flight or
fighter flight mode. You know, she's just trying to save
her family, and like she's gonna put her life and
her heart on the line, and that's what she's gonna do.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's a fair description, but I would say, David, with
your character, it's all of that. But I think your
character has a little bit extra something totally he puts
into everything.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, I think he copes with his insecurity with humor.
I think I think when when we first meet him,
he is introduced as kind of just the lazy boy friend,
and he knows that about he's pretty self aware as well,
but he's he's an insecure dude. All he does know
is that he loves his girlfriend like a lot, like
maybe more than himself, because he doesn't have a lot
(07:10):
of self love, and you kind of learned that about
him as the movie goes on. So he likes to
cope with that with humor and with comedy and with
you know, he doesn't If there's ever like a sentimental
moment between him and Ruben, he brushes it off with
a joke, ye know what I mean, And it makes
for a great comedic relief in the film. But I
think as you grow with him, you realize that he
(07:31):
has a lot of self esteem as used. But it's
also kind of really sweet and profound that all of
his intentions with his girlfriend are really pure and like wholesome,
and he loves her and because of that, he loves
her family. And you don't learn that about him at first,
but he's layered. So it's it's a fun journey to play.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, And I think, like we've had pseudo couples, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Nice to have like a like a real you know
what I mean, like not warring couple, just like these
are two young people in love in a hopeless place.
To quote Rihanna, let's dive into our popcorn buckets. Just
so you know, this is not a team effort. Some
(08:14):
of it is going to be directed to each one
of you without what No.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I mean, y'all want to make it anything. We can
make a competition wins.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Speaking of competition, Luna, this is yours. Which is your
first quote, which one says, I'm rich enough to be invited,
but not rich enough that you can ask me to
donate money.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Wait, is this from any movie? It's from anything. It
could be movies or television, but it's something that you
probably know or have seen on the screen related not
necessarily okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Which one says, I'm rich enough to be invited, but
not rich enough that you can ask me to donate.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
This is something that you have maybe been a part
of seeing on the screen. It could be it. Don't
necessarily get wrapped up with movies. I want to say
that it's from comedy.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Getting Close, Getting Close. It's somewhat related to the Mariposa
and yeah, oh my god, I know who it is.
It's Constant fresh off the boat. Yes, yes, because I
can hear her say it.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Yes, he totally totally.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
So when I was actually thinking that before you said
the thing, I knew you were there because I just
know Jessica and that show.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
And like I just I that is absolutely Fresh off
the Boat. So tell me your relationship obviously to Fresh
off the Boat if.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You want to let folks know.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Oh my gosh, well just to tell of the world. Yes,
I was on this show called Fresh off the Boat
for four years on ABC, starring Constance Who and Randall Park.
It was, honestly, he stands the test of time in
a comedy show.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Genuinely.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It was the first like Asian full like full starring
Asian cast of a comedy show.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
For me.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It was the first LGBTQ character since Ellen came out
on television, So that was.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
A big thing for me.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, on network, on network television, So that was really cool.
It's like it definitely it like hit a lot of
like milestone.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
In a comedy. They've like they've had drama yea, yeah,
like in a comedy and also like with a teenager.
It was really really cool. But I loved doing that show.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
It was so fun to you know, just like work
on like a like a comedy network show that was
just about like culture and.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Nineties and hip hop and like family.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I met like all the sick like basketball players, Scottie
Pippenron like Shaq Shack came the show.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yeah, like the guest stars. Yeah, because everyone just wanted
to like be in the nineties like thing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It was sick because there's usually people like Eddie the
lead characters, like people that.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
He was like obsessed with, Any Wong the chef.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So it's his memoirs based off him. Yeah, and Ali Wong.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Ali Wong is amazing Ken Jong. He's in the show, Like,
oh my god, amazing. That's like, yeah, I started that
when I was twelve. That was like such an amazing experience.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
All Right, we're gonna move on to our next quote.
Great job. I'm scared, David, sir, this is your quote.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But I think about her all the time, and it
hurts my chest physically hurts not to be able to tell.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Her that I'm in love with her.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Is it something that he's been in.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
No, I don't think so it is okay, okay, cool,
So this is somewhere because I was like, I was like,
for some reason, I thought I was gonna be a quote.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
It's someone said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Man, is one of two answers. It can be. I
don't want it to be wrong.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
It's I mean, but you said it was summer.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I want to get it. Who did you know who
it is?
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Yeah, is it Conrad?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I think it's Conrad? Right, yeah, because it's not Jeremiah.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Okay, yeah, shout out Chris.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
You both start in like yours is a little bit old,
younger than teen but gets to teen. And I think
it's interesting you both have the experience of being on
these shows that have these huge fandoms like do you
feel the summer I turned pretty vibes when like you're
walking through New York to people.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Be like, oh it's up.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah man, I love I love when people comes.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
What's been your favorite experience from being on that show?
What was your favorite thing that you guys got to do?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh? Man, that's a great question. I feel like so
it was on the first season, the second season. The
first season was just so cool because it felt like
a like a group project summer at like summer camps
that we were all doing because you know, I hadn't
come out yet. There were fans of the books obviously,
but it was it was like very much our own
private thing. So we would just I can't curse, right,
(12:57):
you can curse? Can you just walk around like all
the time we would like there was one day I
love those guys so much, man, because now they're like
my best friends in the world. That's the best thing
I got out of it. But like, there was one
time they all came over my apartment without telling me,
and they just like bang on my door and there
they opened the door. I was like, hey, I just
like sleeping. I was like, oh, what's up? And they
were like ner nerve fight and I was like, okay,
(13:19):
a random nerve fight. I felt like we were kids,
just like hanging out and one of my roommate now
like they're my best friends in the whole world. So
that's like one of the one of the greatest things
that ever happened to me.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
To me, I love it. Haven't even seen it yet,
the movie No Oh you Gotta.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You're very excited. I then like rented out like a
theater in July and like invited all my friends and
family and stuff.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
That's gonna be amazing. All right, lovely, lovely, all right.
Moving on to our next quote. This is for either
one of you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I don't know how y'all want to compete on this,
but yeah, let's see other people stop. Other people may
talk shit about us, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Up by way to even get closer. Menuel on the
bonyan tree while you're doing.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It, I know what it happens. That's not impressive.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I was there, Okay, couple brother and sister in real life,
and I really love it, like I love it.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
No, you will not win. I dig it, I dig it.
I'm not competitive too.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Let's before we move on, because this is sort of
what you alluded to. Is Manuel I think has a
his character. Ruben has a bit of a journey with
your character. It definitely. I think your character even says
it best.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Took me a while to get it too, you know
what I mean, Like like he has he has multitudes.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I think it'd be interesting for y'all to talk about
that dynamic because you kind of played the daughter of
the dad that's giving you the disappointed face because of
your boyfriend, and you're like, come on, and then you
have to pay the no offense the disappointment. But talk
about how you sort of interacted with Manuel on that
because you'll have some great scenes together.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, I mean I think that, like the number one
thing is is, you know, we just had we just
had so much fun together, so being able to paint
this like on screen family picture, it wasn't any it
was it wasn't faking it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
We like fully became that, you know, like we were
we were all in.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Thailand together, staying at the same hotel and just with
each other every single day, with whether we liked it
or not. So it was like it was like we
have to get used to each other. We were next
door to each other, so we you know, we became
close very very quickly. And you know, it wasn't it
(15:41):
wasn't pretend.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
It just was like that's what he said. Yeah, no
acting was required. Yeah, there was no acting required.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
It really was like me and Manuel even over like lines,
would literally like bicker like dad and daughter.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Like it was like things like that all the time.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
And I'd be like Ben, well, yes, what are you
talking about obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
And He's just like, oh man, you're not gonna get it.
It's not gonna land.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Both of you, I think have incredible comedic moments, but
I will say he talked about it because your character
is tasked with being sort of like the comedic moment,
like even the scene with the raptors, like everything is
like that. How did you sort of like talk about
like the timing stuff with Garets, because like it's all
it's almost like I would rather be chased by a
(16:32):
dinosaur because I know I could fake scared, but like
to be the like turn it on its head and
be comedic in that.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
So did you talk to Gareth about how y'all wanted
to do that?
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I think at the beginning I sat down with him,
as I think each cast member sat down with Garrets individually,
and just talked about what his vision was for everything.
And I think what he was really excited about was
that in his world a lot of like early Spielberg stuff.
I think what he loves about it is that so
much of the scene is alive, even if it's not
the focal point of that specific scene. And I love that.
(17:02):
I was like, dude, I will I will be alive
in the background. I want to add to this as
much as possible. So he really made it feel like
it was like a playground. It was like, you know,
if if it doesn't work, I'll real it back in
or we'll cut it, you know, like so play that.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
He did really like leave everything up to play.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, totally. It was so like liberating, and I felt
the more I tried stuff, the more confident I felt,
because it's it's scary at first, like the biggest movie
I've ever been a part of, so I was nervous,
but once I felt like I could he trusted me,
I trusted myself a little bit more. And I think
a lot of really good stuff made the movie.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So I love that. Well, great job.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I'm not even going to try to decide who won
that point because I feel like I might not be.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Like, I know, y'all keeping score.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
It was not supposed to be a competition, by the way,
but I love that y'all took it here.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
We have had competitive like word search games. I didn't
even know you could do that.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
These dinosaurs were too dangerous for the original part. Yeah,
I do love your quote from him at the beginning,
because I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
I felt that your character was s white, like very
prophetic and like his predictions and things, and.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
When he was like.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
So fun, he was done by the way he was
a pharmaceutical executive. He was already operating from it a
low position.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
But the minute you said that, I was like counting
the minute.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
It was such.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And then I also really appreciated your character. Not gonna
say what, but she has a confrontation with Rupert and
I just love that, like in the midst of Dinosaurs
carnage or whatever, she was standing on the business of like, no,
I'm going after that. That was a great scene. I'm
sure it's an act just to play.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It was fun. It was fun. It was cold, we
were in London, it was yasing the old outside, Oh
my god. And we were in a night shoot. It
was like four or something.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It was so late, and uh, and we just like
we just we just did it. It was just crazy
and and we were just dealing with such an insane
week and and I just remember, Yeah, I was just
so excited to just finally get the moment to attack Grouper.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
It was just amazing. It wasn't gotten in real life
because I love that man to death. Yeah, but in
the movie it was worth it, and it was for
the cinema. It was amazing. Literally for the plot. I know,
we try we try over here.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Amazing. We are ready to move on to the next
popcorn bucket. All right, So this one is true or false. Again,
these are things that you have hopefully seen on the screen.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
True or false.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
The scene where the Dolgatto family encounters the t Rex
on a wrath is adapted from a moment in Michael
Crichton's Origin novel.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, that's true, you got right.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, it was not filmed up until now. So when
did they tell you about that scene? Because that is
a huge moment in this one. And also I will say, uh,
once you know what you're doing on that one, you're like, this.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Is gonna be a while. Actually, how long did it
take to film that? It was a lot of me
for a while. I had I had like three days
filming by myself, just doing.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Swamp work, just doing swamp, doing boardwalk, grabbing, doing a
whole other two days inside the thing.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
So that whole scene was a lot of just me.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And then I actually wasn't even because we shot the
whole thing separately, each one of those like their coverage
like that was just that yeah, or like I was
there for like a second.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
But yeah, how long did y'll film the other section.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Was definitely like a couple of days, maybe a week.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I don't know, because that's just like a one moment.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
But then I was more talking about when you're as
a family going down the river like that, Oh that
was London.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Oh that was that was London. Was London, which was
like months later that it was freezing cool.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You were in this place called Lee Valley in this
like it was.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Built for the Olympics in twenty twelve for the rafting
for the yeah first sorry kayaking.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Kayakak yeah, and so like there's all of the it's
instane there, all these like obstacles that are built under
the water because it's made for.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Boats to be It's not the way it was like
thirty two degrees.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
It's not made for people to be in the water.
So we're in this water like bombing and weaving out
away and like actually survived. And then our stunt people
obviously went in the more like rapid section of the
rapids and did all the real hard work.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
But it was crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
That raft bit was so fun. I remember having a
conversation with like towards the beginning of filming. Uh, it
was sort of like a really cool surprise moment for
me when I got the script, because I remember just
talking to David Capp and Gareth and they were like,
we just want to tell you that, like this is
this is your this is your moment.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Like then, like this is like something that we are
so excited for.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
And David wrote the whole like swamp raft grabbing that
whole moment for the original Jurassic movie. Yeah, and they
couldn't get it and they couldn't get it in So
it was like just such an honor and like so amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah, it was so cool tying it back to ninety three.
We gotta do that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, all right, let's move on to our next true false,
true or false. The rebirth version of the Spinosaurus was
redesigned to reflect new scientific discoveries, including the idea that
it hunted in water.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
As well as on lap.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
He's probably true.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I feel like that's true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Inspired by again suggesting the spinosaurus was semi aquatic, the
filmmakers reimagined it with more powerful hind lens, webbed feet
at a broader tail for swimming, and then they had
it terrorized you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
They did do that. They really didn't did that. Let's
be real if I will say and men will even
mentioned this one.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Audrina has a scene where she has to like stare
up at the monster and like just be terrified.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
She nailed it too. She steals the movie.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Do Laura steals the movie? But she is right there,
rob in the bank when I'm kidding? True or false?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
The Spanish phrase on Isabella's Pelican logo te translates to
like find true? When did they well you speaks?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I was like, did you know?
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Did they tell you that this is what we're doing?
Like they were like, no, they did, They.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Did, they did, because it's it's a it's from the
original Well I find you, of course, But I meant
the like on.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
The tea, like the costumes. They always have it on
the tea like it was it always.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It was always. They never told me that that she
was there. I just had I noticed it was like.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
The thing. I love it. That's super cute. Though, Also,
you guys have the same costumes the whole time.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
How many did you burn through or do they just
keep recycling because it does get dirty or dirty years
it goes along.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But I'm just like mine was a lot more intricate.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
We had to get clearance from David Bowie's like a
state Toto wear the David Bowie T shirt on screen.
So and there's only very few of the like original
vintage T shirts from the Spider Tour.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
So, like, that was a very big conversation that we had.
So that took a while. So we did not have many.
You're like, no, we did not have many. No, it
was a lot of use. What is it, reduce, reuse, recycle, Yeah,
that's what it. That's what it was. So yeah, a
lot of the same shorts, same commers, a lot of
(24:48):
the same for me, and you still managed to not
find your shirt shirt.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Every opportunity I had, I took that thing off.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It was hot out there.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Well, I'm glad that you suffered for your art because
we all got to enjoy the results.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I appreciate it so amazing. Y'all did again stellar.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I think that's a tie for the wind except for
you get the bonus credit, because you got the bonus
credit on top of everything else, because because.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
She was like Manuel on the boat with the thing,
and that was what I'm saying, y'all, you give me
your break, yo, I'm gonna a girl get the extra credit.
I want it's a tie breaker. But y'all really did tie.
We tied, but like I just got a little bit extra.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
I got a little still, Let's see the audience can
judge you on your rapid fire answers, and maybe you
could come back from the wind.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah again. Come to.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Favorite movie snack sat Watermelon just that that's probably my favorite.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I mean, I go, I go popcorn, popcorn, cherry, Coca
cola and popcorn.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
I've only just covered cherry coke this year. I've never
had any in my life. I'm not even getting I'm
actually not kidding. I literally discovered it.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
I know it's so good. It makes me upset that
I can't have it. Besides the movie theater. Last show
that you binged.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
For the first time time, favorite character Alreadie Buco that's
my guy.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Last show that I binged? Oh my god, I watched
so much television well any picket.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I mean I watch everything because I'm actually a couch potato.
So your friends and neighbors, John Ham Sirens.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Right now, I'm currently watching Love Island USA. As you should.
Let me just say when this isn't like give it. Oh,
actually I'm not gonna say that. Such great TV. I
was like, like, watch.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
TV. No, no, no, seriously though, I'm actually very heavily
addicted to leve Island, USA. I don't know how they
like it's almost like a trance that they have on people,
and like why do I keep watching?
Speaker 4 (27:08):
And why do I want to know what's going to
happen to these people? Because of characters like people like
Ace and Hooda.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't have to wait, but I'm not like caught up. Really,
I know I'm on episode seven.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Well then you know about Hooda. Then you know that
I know about hoo yeah, and also you know already
about Ace. That's a crazy girl.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
This is they both are made for reality television. That
is all I will say.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Favorite actor, Oh, oh my god, you know what just
came to my mind?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Crazy, so random, but like in everything he does, Krystalph
Waltz is a great every single thing he does.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Oh my god, he's amazing. That's are too good ones.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
I don't know what Brand came to mine.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Actually, that was the second answer that Manuel gave. His
first answer was Daniel da Lewis. But then he said,
if you asked him about a dead actor, he said,
Marlon Brand.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Oh yeah, Denzel for sure.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
That's another good one, I said Paul Newman for because.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Going to the movie theater alone? Hoffins, Sorry, you love
character actors? Yeah, you really do, Like you're like, literally
I love a character actor. Yeah, yeah, I think y'all
going to going to the movie theater alone? Yes or no?
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
What about you? Literally? I do it too often? That's
a favorite. No, No, I do it too often. That
Like the Chinese theater in la is like are you good?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Are you? No? No? No no.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
If anybody at the theater says that, you'd be like,
I am keeping the movie industry dropped up.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
I am. They're just like, do you have any social business?
Is my social life? This is where I get indignant.
I don't be asking me why I'm here. You know,
you know it's true, true, because let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
If I am here, obviously, I'm coping with it way more, yeah,
proactively than other people business.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Business. ILL be asking questions. I love that. I love
that it's gonna get weird in a minute. So that
one hit close to home. Can you tell.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
It did?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Can ask me question? What's your favorite classic Universal films?
This is any Universal film? It's over twenty five years old,
so before two thousand.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The first thing that came to mine is Psycho Original Psycho.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Oh that's a great one. You could see that on
the Universal tours.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Do that exactly. That's why I came, because I did
the I was like, that's actually.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Yeah. I was going to say, like anything Ambling did
is always a good A lot of people ambling.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I was going to say, like, e t uh, I'd
say Hitchcock. That's universal, isn't it. Yeah, hitch talk as universal.
Back to the Future, The future is amazing. You've seen
the play I did. It's so good. I'm sorry, I
love it. There's so many Frankenstein. Those are all good ones.
(30:12):
Frankenstein's a classic horror. You guys made some good ones.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And now you're part of the one that so many
people name O God in Jurassic Yeah, to say you're
you're also a part of but no, no, no no,
because that's like kind of self serving, because you're part
of the legacy now too. It's like, I don't want
to name my movies, guys, I want to give credit
to the other movie.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
And I say, honestly, like a new like Oppenheimer, Yeah,
well that's new. Oh sorry, that's that's that's a new one,
but it's like a classic. It's gonna be it will
be immortalized.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah, David and Luma, thank you so much. Thank you
for being here. Yeah, so much fun. Thank you all.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Thanks
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