With the highly anticipated ‘Jurassic World’ set to open in less than a week, the Colin Trevorrow-helmed film continues to make the headlines with actress Bryce Dallas Howard sharing her sentiments on Joss Whedon calling out the movie’s first released trailer as ‘sexist.’
There have been concerns about how the story will play out between leads Howard and Chris Pratt after the ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ director had put forward his own observations of their roles.
As a response, Trevorrow explained that the trailer was “taken out of context” and that the leading female role and Howard’s character- Jurassic World’s operations manager Claire Dearing- is actually the main hero of the story.
Whedon’s remarks reportedly left the ‘Jurassic World’ actress “distraught”, as pointed out in Howard’s new profile in The Telegraph.
Trevorrow’s approach to this new reboot was to create the story around Howard’s character, who she believes is “incredibly accomplished, but also flawed and myopic, and who reconnects with her humanity” after the hybrid dino Indominus rex escaped and chaos followed.
When it comes to Whedon’s comments, the actress has taken on a similar stance to that of Trevorrow, saying: “… The tricky thing with movies is, you release these little bits without the larger context. And that scene only shows my character at the beginning of her journey.”
The trailer’s release and the subsequent buzz resulted to the 34-year-old actress wondering if her role had really been somehow degraded during the editing process into a mere love interest.
In response, Trevorrow offered assurance and sent an email that read: “Don’t worry, you’re still the hero.”
By the end of the movie, her character Claire appears to be the individual who has changed more as compared to Pratt’s dinosaur wrangler character Owen Grady.
Daughter to ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘A Beautiful Mind’ director Ron Howard, the ‘Jurassic World’ actress has had a glimpse of the scenes that take place behind the camera, grasping the necessary facts to understand the concept of filmmaking.
Howard also shared what the ‘Jurassic Park’ movie means to audiences of certain age.
“Chris, Colin and I are all in our 30s: it’s our generation’s movie. We were on set humming the John Williams theme song. You can’t help it! It’s iconic," the 'Lady in the Water' star said.
Howard also had positive words about Trevorrow, saying that while other helmers she had previously worked with had not totally focused on detail, the ‘Jurassic World’ director did the opposite.
“… He [Colin] had so thoughtfully planned out every single moment of this movie, and pre-animated every sequence in which there were dinosaurs, so we all knew our role in those scenes and what our characters were seeing.”
Howard also described Trevorrow to be highly cautious when it comes to realizing the vision for their movie.
‘Jurassic World’ is expected to hit theaters on June 12 for 3D, 2D and IMAX theaters.