00:00That is so crazy that you would say that!
00:09Scarlett, I love how vocal you've been, that you've been a fan of the franchise for so long.
00:14I'm curious, what do you think are the most important elements of, like, a good Jurassic film?
00:19Great actors. Period.
00:24No, the script has to be solid. That's the first most important thing.
00:28And then you need a great cast, great cinematographer, fantastic composer, good editor, visionary director.
00:37You need the thrills, you need the corny jokes, you need the, like, scary...
00:42Gooney sense of adventure, yeah.
00:43Yeah, sense of adventure and a bunch of people have to get eaten, too.
00:49Yeah, there's a lot that goes into the blender.
00:51I'm obsessed with the fact that before even getting the call to do this movie, you just happened to write
00:56a four-page analysis.
00:57Yeah, yeah.
00:58On why Jurassic Park is good.
01:00So I'm curious, in your opinion, what are, like, the top three essential things needed for, like, a good Jurassic
01:05movie?
01:06And please don't say dinosaurs.
01:10Wow.
01:11You know what's tricky about that, and this is the whole point, really, is that it's hard to say it
01:16in words.
01:17When I wrote that document, what I'm doing is I'm sort of trying to take the essence of the story
01:23and tell it like it was, like, a thousand years ago.
01:26So it's more like a campfire story.
01:27So it's like you're just trying to make it, like, timeless.
01:30So that's a little exercise to do with films I love.
01:32And I did it the day before I got the call about the job.
01:39I had no idea.
01:40I just did it because I love Jurassic Park.
01:42And what happened is my girlfriend, because she knew I'd spent, like, five hours doing this in this room,
01:47she saw this news article the next day about Universal looking for a director for Jurassic.
01:51And she just, I was on the phone to a friend, and my phone went, you know, and I kind
01:56of looked,
01:57and it was just this link to the article, and I copied and pasted it, and I sent it to
02:01my agent,
02:01and just wrote, is this stupid?
02:03Question mark.
02:04It's hit send, carried on the phone call, and then put the phone down 45 minutes later,
02:09and looked, and there was four missed calls.
02:10And I was like, oh, no, the Jurassic article.
02:13Oh, God.
02:14And I called my agent going, hello?
02:16Like, what have I done?
02:18And he was like, you will never believe this.
02:20But he goes, but Universal called, and Frank Marshall, and they were asking if you'd be interested,
02:25and I told them you want to do your own thing.
02:27And he says, and now as I'm saying that, your text came through, and I burst out laughing.
02:31And so anyway, they're sending you the script, you know, read it over the weekend, see what you think.
02:35And I kind of didn't want to like it.
02:37I kind of, I thought, oh, the easiest version of life is if it's just bad, and I don't do
02:42it, you know.
02:43And I got to the end, and I'm like, oh, damn it.
02:45It's like, it was a really fun playground that I felt like, oh, I just, this is what I've always
02:50wanted to do, this kind of thing.
02:51So, yes, I had to do it.
02:53I had to dive in.
02:57Would you ever consider directing a Jurassic film?
03:00I know.
03:00That is crazy that you would say that.
03:052028, baby.
03:06The ink isn't even dry on the track.
03:09You heard it here first.
03:10No, actually, because Mahershala is actually volunteered to Jurassic Park.
03:14He's going to do a one-man show at Jurassic Park.
03:16We were just talking about it for seven months on Broadway.
03:19I know, it's going to be great for your friends.
03:21I'm doing the musical, actually.
03:22Yeah.
03:23We're going to play the tennis balls.
03:24Jonathan, I want to talk about the Altoids.
03:29Such a funny moment, and I love that it's wintergreen Altoids and not the original flavor.
03:33What does that say?
03:34Everything that kind of moves is just slightly off-scented.
03:36Yeah, I was going to say, what does that say about his character?
03:38I think it tells you so much about his psyche, in a way.
03:40It does, yeah.
03:41I think he's got a ferociously fast brain, I think, can go against him at points.
03:48And yeah, his need for physical, what's the word?
03:53I actually have the same problem.
03:55Like a disruptor?
03:55I could do with the men right now.
03:57A cognitive, yeah, a crutch.
03:59Yeah, like a reset.
04:00A crutch, yeah.
04:01But no, the wintergreen was a choice.
04:03An oral fidget.
04:03An oral fidget.
04:04You heard it here first.
04:05How many containers does he have on him at all times?
04:08I feel like he's like, handful.
04:10No, I think possibly has one bottomless pit.
04:13No, two.
04:14I think he has two.
04:15So it's all in the background.
04:16I could just pull it on.
04:17That's true, yeah.
04:18He's like, do you know who's carrying a couple of these?
04:20Why didn't Dolores get any Altoids?
04:22That's true.
04:23I don't know if she's in the mince, though.
04:25They make dinosaurs sick.
04:26Yeah, she didn't know that.
04:27Yeah, they only do that.
04:28That's true, yeah.
04:29You didn't know they make them sick.
04:30Okay.
04:31Was Dolores practical on set?
04:34It was.
04:34It was a full robotic animatronic.
04:37And it was so real.
04:39It would blink.
04:40It would move.
04:41It would make noise.
04:43So I think that was one of the best things because you were able to actually look at it.
04:48And then when it was in my backpack, I had an eyeline for it.
04:52And most of the scenes, she was actually there.
04:55Some of it, it was raining and she couldn't be in the rain.
04:59So they had just a blue tennis ball.
05:02But that was amazing.
05:05Is she just as cute, like the puppet version?
05:07Oh, yeah.
05:08Oh, yeah.
05:08Cuter?
05:09No, they're the same amount of cute.
05:11But you know, she's so cute.
05:12You know, the big screen is always better.
05:14I'm taking her home with me.
05:16That may or may not be a terrible idea.
05:18What kind of pet do we think she's going to be like?
05:20Like, what's happening to her in an ideal world?
05:24Well, you said she doesn't get any bigger, right?
05:26Um, she doesn't get any bigger.
05:27Yeah, so that's her full size.
05:30It is still baby Dolores, though.
05:32Um, and hopefully she could stay with me the whole entire life.
05:40She's scary.
05:41She's scared, though.
05:44Cut it!
05:45Run!
05:50How involved were you with the actual, like, dinosaur design?
05:54And did you know immediately, like, I want a xenomorph?
05:58No, it's really hard to do.
05:59Like, the xenomorph from Alien is probably, I think there'd be a very good argument that it's the best monster
06:05ever designed.
06:06And so you compete against that the whole time.
06:10And so then, um, basically we threw that in the pot with, like, the Rancor monster and the Elephant Man.
06:18Um, and a more obscure reference probably is the Chris Cunningham video, uh, Robert Johnny, uh, went in.
06:26And, and a T-Rex, obviously.
06:28And then just stirred the pot.
06:30And you just play with elements.
06:32And, and, and there's one particular angle that one of the artists drew.
06:36And it was like, that's it.
06:37Stop.
06:37We've got it.
06:37That's it.
06:38That's, that's the, that's the creature.
06:40And, and, and it was like really super fast.
06:43Like, sometimes you just, it just clicks and you get there quickly.
06:47And there was another creature in the movie.
06:48Took another nine months and about another thousand designs before we nailed it.
06:52It was like crazy.
06:53What creature?
06:53Called the Mutadon.
06:54It was the ones.
06:55Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:58Stay there or do you know, it's right above you, okay?
07:01I think you guys really are the heart of the movie.
07:04Did you see the New York premiere screening?
07:06Were you in the audience?
07:07Yeah.
07:07Everybody was reacting to you guys, just like so in love with all of your scenes.
07:11It was so fun to watch, especially some of your replying.
07:14I know, dude, yeah.
07:16Just so, like the comedic timing is so great.
07:19I'm curious, was any of that improv?
07:21Yeah, a good amount of it was improv.
07:23And I felt so comfortable because Gareth was like, hey man, try it.
07:27If it doesn't work, we'll cut it and we won't use it.
07:28And if you're doing too much, I'll reel it back in.
07:30So I felt so comfortable.
07:31And yeah, I love improv.
07:33I love being an idiot in front of people and making people laugh.
07:36So that's what I did.
07:37Very good at it.
07:40Was there anything that you tried that you were like, oh, I wish that would have gotten in?
07:44Honestly, I think they kept in a majority of the stuff.
07:47I had one line where I was like, it wasn't even funny.
07:51Remember we were rafting through in Thailand and I tried a line where I was like, you think
07:55they have air conditioning when we get there?
07:57And it didn't really land very well.
07:58So it's probably for the best.
08:00I love that.
08:01I also loved the raft scene.
08:02What was it like filming that sequence?
08:05I think there's a lot of memories from the raft scene because that was a very important
08:10scene that we wanted to get down packed.
08:11And sharing it with all of these guys was super cool.
08:17And when Luna, you were having to swim to go get the raft.
08:22It was broken up into a lot of different days, a lot of different locations, a lot of months
08:28spread across that scene.
08:31For my personal experience, I got to really just work it out with Gareth, work it out with
08:37David Koepp, John Matheson.
08:39It's a very iconic scene.
08:40It's also, for my part of it, it's the one scene in the movie that doesn't have a score,
08:43which is really, really cool, which makes it just a lot more real.
08:48It makes everything a lot more just like in your face and you can hear everything.
08:53You can hear breathing.
08:54You can hear the water.
08:54You can hear the steps.
08:55You can hear the wind move the grass.
08:58Like there's so much more to that.
09:00So being able to like really like sit down with them and talk about it just made it feel a
09:04lot more like iconic in a way, because it's just like something that people are going to
09:08remember for a really long time.
09:10So taking that like intricate, like taking those intricate moments and beats to really
09:15just like figure out how we're going to make this exactly what the audience is going to want
09:19to see.
09:20It just was like, it was so special.
09:22So cool to be able to like have that experience.
09:29Mahershala will obviously hold this for spoilers, but what do you think happened between
09:33Duncan and D-Rex?
09:35We don't see that moment on camera.
09:37Just give him a little boop on the nose.
09:39Is that how he got him to go away?
09:40What's that?
09:41I think he, I think he went, I think he distracted.
09:45The flare went out and I think he went underwater and kind of like, you know, swam away very quickly.
09:50You guys didn't talk about it?
09:51No.
09:52I thought you had a conversation.
09:53I thought it was rock paper.
09:54Originally, I thought he died, but I'm joking.
09:56But I think he, I think he goes underwater and kind of swims through.
09:59Actually, maybe it's not the real Kinkade.
10:01If the Kinkade dies, it's a doppelganger Kinkade.
10:04Yeah, there you go.
10:05It's a Kinkade.
10:06Already in the jungle.
10:07It's a Twin Peaks level evil version.
10:11And it's called Kunkun Dinted.
10:24I don't know what this says about my algorithm, but Jonathan, I keep seeing posts from questionable
10:29sources, that Ariana Grande's dog, Toulouse, is playing Toto.
10:34Oh, wow.
10:35Well, I couldn't possibly say.
10:36Can you confirm or deny?
10:38I wouldn't be able to say anything about that film other than get ready because it's going
10:41to be extraordinary.
10:42Can you say anything about Toulouse?
10:43I hear that Toulouse is a very good actor.
10:45Really?
10:45I don't know how I'd know that.
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