James Cromwell talks Jurassic World 2 Dinosaurs and massive sets!

Jurassic World 2 actor James Cromwell boasted massive, football field sized sets and incredible practical effects for the Jurassic World sequel in a recent interview with Collider. The actor, who's role in the film remains a mystery expressed great appreciation for the scale of work being done on JW2:

The prop people have made wonderful things. The set people have made wonderful things. There’s just so much money and so much power and so much prestige. It’s Jurassic Park. It’s unreal. And then, you do your work and, instead of doing it in a room, you’re doing it in a football field sized set with real recreations of dinosaurs. We had three full-sized dinosaur bone replicas that came from a museum in America, and five other heads.

He went on to further express adoration for director J. A. Bayona and his tenacity when it came to ensuring certain creative freedoms were granted, despite the occasional head butting with studio executives. Cromwell also praised Bayona's ability to elevate his cast and make the most out of every scene:

He’s wonderful. I liked him a lot. He does some very strange things. At one point, my character is supposed to care about this thing, and I was doing my caring bit. He came over to me and said, “If you want to break down and cry, you can do that.” I thought, “Oh, really? Thanks! What am I crying about?” And Geraldine Chaplin, who has made three or four pictures with him, said, “Did he ask you to cry? He always asks you to cry!” He evidently has a little recipe book of things to do to heighten an actor.

It certainly sounds like the scale of Jurassic World 2 is aiming to meet our growing expectations. With the tone of the film expected to be a darker, scarier, more serious one, paired with a higher emphasis on practical effects and props, Jurassic World 2 could very well surpass it's predecessor. Time will tell.

Source: Collider via Jurassic Outpost