David Iacono paid fashion tribute to Sam Neill
The 23-year-old actor - who plays Xavier in the latest film in the franchise - walked the red carpet in New York last week wearing a denim set by Enrage and he had deliberately based his look on Alan Grant, the paleontologist the 77-year-old star first played in the 1993 original Jurassic Park film.
David told WWD: 'I wanted to give a little bit of a nod to something Jurassic related. I'm just such a fan of the original movie, and this movie is such a nod to the original movie.
'Alan Grant's outfit in the original 'Jurassic Park' was definitely something that inspired what I was wearing: he wears a cool denim button up and a red bandana around his neck – so essentially, I just kind of copied Alan Grant's outfit from the movie.'
The premiere meant a lot to David because his whole family were in attendance at the Lincoln Center, which was very close to his high school.
He said: 'I had my parents there, my grandparents, my sister, my sister's boyfriend, my uncles, and two of my best buddies that I grew up with since I was a kid. Having them there was just kind of the most important thing to me.
'[The premiere] was in Lincoln Center, which was across the street from the high school that I went to. I would walk through Lincoln Center every morning to get to school. So it was all just a beautifully full circle moment.'
The Summer I Turned Pretty actor fell in love with Thailand while shooting Jurassic World Rebirth there.
He said: 'I'd never been that far from home in my life, let alone for work. So to be surrounded by such kindhearted people that were taking care of me at this beautiful resort, in this gorgeous environment that I had never experienced, that made it all 10 times easier.
"I felt so privileged to be able to have, not only have people take care of me in this gorgeous setting, but also have them be such kind-hearted people and such welcoming people.
'So that made it so easy to get comfortable there.'
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Because then there'd be no movie, silly. It would be a 10-minute sequence of a guy in a white coat and a syringe. This way, we celebrate three kinds of dinosaurs in three separate chapters. It may seem a little far-fetched, but may we remind you about the last movie, which involved a biogenetic granddaughter, a global pharma conspiracy, the cast members from both trilogies, a Giganotosaurus, giant locusts on fire and had the ludicrous decision to have Chris Pratt make a promise to bring home a baby dino - to its mother. The three-part quest at the heart of Jurassic World Rebirth is interrupted by a family - a dad, his two daughters and a sketchy boyfriend - in a 45-foot sailboat that is capsized and need rescuing. 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Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali - both very unshowy and suggesting a sort of sibling chemistry - play security and extraction specialists - OK, mercenaries - hired to get what everyone wants from dinosaurs in these movies: DNA. In return, there's $10 million. 25 HOTTEST POPCORN MOVIES THIS WINTER The movie is set five years after Jurassic World Dominion and some three decades after dinosaurs were reanimated. They've lost their public fascination - a subtle nod perhaps to the films in the franchise - and have struggled with the climate, gathering at the equator. The Big Pharma company ParkerGenix has come up with a blockbuster idea: Take DNA from three colossal Cretaceous-period creatures - the flying Quetzalcoatlus, the aquatic Mosasaurus and the land-based Titanosaurus - to cure cardiac disease. Wait, how does that work? Don't ask us, something about hemoglobin. The trick is this: The dinos have to be alive when the DNA is extracted. Why? 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A highlight is a pair of long-tailed Titanosaurus entwining their necks as John Williams' familiar score plays, two lovers with thick, knotted skin utterly oblivious to the pesky humans who want some DNA. For some reason, candy is a touchstone throughout the movie, from the opening sequence in which a stray Snickers wrapper causes incalculable harm, to licorice fed to a baby dino and one character's fondness for crunching Altoids. HAVE YOU SEEN THESE YET? Edwards' pacing is perfect, allowing dread to build with just the rustling of trees, and letting characters deepen between breathless, excellently filmed action sequences. The gorgeous landscape - Thailand's waterfalls, grassy plains, shoreline caves and mangrove swamps - should be used for a tourist campaign, well, as long as they remove the rapacious dinos. As if all this wasn't enough, there's a bonus bit at the end. 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