BD Wong Talks Reuniting With His ‘Jurassic Park’ Castmates in ‘Jurassic World Dominion’

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Angelique Jackson “Jurassic World Dominion” features the long-awaited return of Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill, appearing on screen for the first time together since 1993’s “Jurassic Park,” but there’s another franchise O.G.

who’s part of the mix — BD Wong.Wong’s Dr. Henry Wu has also been a central player in the dinosaur film franchise since its inception, as Jurassic Park’s chief geneticist, the InGen scientist responsible for resurrecting these extinct animals.

Memorably, Wu’s explanation for genetically engineering all the dinosaurs to be female (“There’s no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park”) elicited the classic response from Goldblum’s chaotician Dr.

Ian Malcom, “Life, uh… finds a way.” After sitting out the two “Jurassic Park” sequels (1997’s “The Lost World” and 2001’s “Jurassic Park III”), Wong returned for “Jurassic World” in 2015, and this time he had the memorable quip: “You didn’t ask for reality; you asked for more teeth!” After Goldblum made a cameo in the 2018 sequel “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” Wong was thrilled to reunite with all three of his former co-stars for “Dominion.”“We made this movie deep in 2020 — first movie to come back during the pandemic, brand new protocols, we forged new territory on how to make a movie safely — and these three actors were part of this family,” Wong told Variety on the black carpet at the premiere for “Jurassic World Dominion” at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Monday night in Hollywood.“They’re iconic in that way — people like to use that word a lot, ‘iconic’ — but they’re really icons.