If there is one thing fans should know about Jurassic World lead star Chris Pratt, it's that the actor has a wicked sense of humor.
So when he said during a movie preview that there won't be much action in the film he's starring in, you can bet your boots that nothing can be further from the truth.
"It's going to be super boring," Pratt joked about Jurassic World during an Entertainment Weekly preview. In the movie, he played Owen Grady, an ex-military who works on the dinosaur island studying raptors.
"It's just, like, us watching dinosaurs for an hour and a half!" he said. And right after he said that, he and co-star Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays park operations manager Claire Dearing are seen ducking for cover from flying pteranodons and screaming to everybody, "Run!"
Movie director Colin Trevorrow shared that Pratt's and Howard's characters are physically attracted to one another although they do not like each other's personalities very much, but by the end of the movie, all of their prejudices change.
Dearing's nephews played by Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson actually visit the park when chaos ensues, and she transforms from being a prim and proper manager into a fierce female fighter in order to save them, and that is probably what impresses Grady about her.
In fact, Howard says she can really relate to her character after her maternal instincts kicked in.
"Becoming a mother myself, I've realized being maternal is being wildly badass," she laughingly said.
The original Jurassic Park movie, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, is a big hit from Universal Studios, so the original director had a lot to say in choosing his predecessor. He chose Trevorrow, and producer Frank Marshall said that it's because Trevorrow understands all of the Jurassic movies
"That's what Steven and I felt was the most important thing - he's a storyteller," he explained.
Trevorrow understands the gravity of Spielberg's and Marshall's trust, and he feels really honoured that directorial duties have actually been given to him, especially since a lot of people out there are coveting for the job.
"There are a lot of people in my generation who dreamed of being filmmakers who would love to have this job, and I feel a responsibility to all of them to make this everything that we all wish it could be," he said. "If I can pull that off, that's my gift back to Steven."
