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Bryce Dallas Howard’s action-star era is approaching.
The 41-year-old actress recently concluded her character’s three-film trajectory from buttoned-up theme park executive to kick-ass mom trying to save her daughter inJurassic World Dominion. Moving forward, Howard tells PEOPLE she hopes to be enlisted for more action roles, especially parts that utilize her hidden talent: martial arts.
Howard says she “can’t wait” for people to see the movie — which also stars Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson — next year. “It’s pretty bananas,” she says.
The director/actress first played Claire Dearing opposite costarChris Prattin 2015’sJurassic World. Itwas the intention from the get-gothat her role would be more involved in the action as the story progressed.
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“It was actually the plan from the beginning, to be honest. [Director] Colin [Trevorrow] picked up that I’m very into doing physically challenging things, so I can imagine he realized early that there weren’t going to be limitations on his imagination in that regard and that I would be game for anything,” says Howard.
“It increased, but I remember us talking the firstJurassic Worldand we were— the reason why I remember this is because it had everything to do with a hairstyle, and that’s the majority of Colin’s and my conversations, hairstyles, which I love. He was like, ‘Yeah, what if she becomes an eco-terrorist?’ and I was like, ‘If she’s an eco-terrorist, I need an undercut.’ We didn’t quite get to the undercut. We fell just short of it!”
Howard admits that, after her last day on set for her finalJurassicouting, she “cried the entire plane ride” home.
Jurassic World DominionExtended Edition, featuring never-before-seen footage, is now available to own on digital, 4K UHD and Blu-ray.
source: people.com
