Bryce Dallas Howard has certainly had a rough time of it filming Jurassic World: Dominion – and she has the bruises to prove it.
Filming on the latest movie in the deadly dinosaur franchise has restarted following the near-worldwide halt in productions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and judging by the 39-year-old’s injuries, it’s been a heavy-going shoot.
Discussing her excitement to be back on set, Howard wrote on Twitter: “These past couple of weeks my abs have been sore from laughing so much.
“It's good to be back at work with this funny guy."
She accompanied her tweet with a throwback snap of herself and Jurassic World frontman Chris Pratt giggling while at work.
The tweet prompted Pratt, 41, to insist Howard show her 247,000 Twitter followers her “crazy bruises”, and she happily obliged.
Revealing blossoms of bruises on her arms and thigh, Howard wrote: “Raise your hands if you’re happy to be doing stunts again!”
It’s of little surprise Howard has found herself getting truly stuck into filming again, as she described the script of Jurassic World: Dominion as “awesome.”
“It was so exhilarating reading it,” she told Collider. “My husband got to read it too. We were like ‘ahhh’ just kind of flipping out… we are all so excited to come back together!”
Thought to be the final film of the saga, Howard added she feels Jurassic World: Dominion will marry the events from the original Jurassic Park films to this one, and that she wanted her character, Claire Dearing, to have a harder edge.
“In terms of the third movie, the goal overall is to bring the entire saga together,” she told Cinema Blend.
“It'll be the sixth film at the end of the day. For me, what I'm most wanting, other than an undercut, is for there to be more characters from the earlier films.”
She continued: “I've been lobbying for Claire to get an undercut and I think that's not going to happen. I don't think she's going to become an eco-terrorist.”
Jurassic World: Dominion is slated for release in June 2021
