For Years Scarlett Johansson Sent Every Report of a New JURASSIC PARK Film to Her Agents: "Hey, I'm Available"

Actress Scarlett Johansson is living her childhood dream in being the star of her very own Jurassic Park franchise film. She has been vocal about her love of the movies since she was just a kid, and she is finally stepping into that world in the upcoming movie, Jurassic World Rebirth. Though her absence from the previous films was not for lack of trying.

Johansson said in an interview with Vanity Fair that she spent years forwarding trade reports of new Jurassic Park movies to her agents because she was desperate to join the long-running franchise.

“I was really crazy about the [original] film, and I slept in a Jurassic Park pup tent in my bedroom I shared with my sister for a year,” Johansson said about her enduring love for the franchise.

“Anytime the trades would report a new Jurassic movie, I would forward to my agents like, ‘Hey, I’m available.’”

She’s finally getting her chance with what looks to be this summer’s blockbuster hit, Jurassic World Rebirth, co-staring Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali.

When Johansson was filming reshoots for her Marvel movie Black Widow in 2020 at Britain’s Pinewood Studio, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard were next door on a soundstage filming Jurassic World Dominion. The actor remembered telling her team then: “Show me the sets! I want to participate!”

Johansson eventually landed a meeting with Steven Spielberg, who directed the original Jurassic Park film and its 1997 sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The two were meeting to discuss potential upcoming projects, but all Johansson had her eye on was the Jurassic franchise.

“I hadn’t really sat with him and talked about work, and we spent hours just catching up and chatting, and then at some point, many hours into it, he was like, ‘Wait, we’re supposed to talk about Jurassic. Do I hear you’re a huge superfan?'” Johansson recalled. “I said, ‘It is actually true. I’m confirming. I’m a huge superfan.’”

Johansson leads the film as Zora Bennet, a former mercenary now leading a group of scientists on a mission to retrieve dinosaur blood that could lead to the cure for heart disease.

Jurassic World Rebirth opens in theaters nationwide on July 2nd.

via: Variety