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\u201cHi, My name is Gareth Edwards and I am the director of \u201cJurassic World Rebirth.\u201d So right now we\u2019re with a family who have kind of been shipwrecked on this island with our team of experts. and essentially trying to get across the island to get rescued, which involves potentially going down river on this raft. Unfortunately, there is a curveball of a giant sleeping T-Rex. What you\u2019ll see as she drags the raft, there\u2019s a close up and it says on it, basically \u201cinflate on land.\u201d And this was something we added in the edit because we did a test screening and the audience was just like, why would you inflate it in front of a T-Rex? And so I just thought, well, why don\u2019t \u2014 if we just put some instructions on it that say have to inflate this on the land, if you drag it through the water, it will sink. And so I thought, there\u2019s this great opportunity because the raft inflates. You get this David Copperfield moment where from the camera perspective, it can completely hide the T-Rex. And then when the raft is put down, you realize it\u2019s missing. And I never knew this when we were filming, but basically found out that this was a sequence they had initially tried to put in the original \u201cJurassic Park\u201d screenplay, and then at some point, Steven Spielberg decided to take it out. And then when him and David Koepp got together to write this script, one of the first things on the agenda was like, we\u2019ve got to get that raft scene back into a movie. And so I was blissfully unaware of this when we shot this sequence, thank God, probably, because I think if I\u2019d seen Steven\u2019s storyboards, I think the pressure would have been like, immense. What you\u2019re looking at is two main locations. One is in Thailand, and it\u2019s really actually a lake. We use it as a river, but it\u2019s this big lake within a quarry. And then once the rafting begins proper, it becomes this location in the U.K. called Lee Valley, which was essentially built for the London Olympics in 2012. And then my favorite image in this sequence is Audrina, the little girl, looking from the back of the raft and seeing the T-Rex make eye contact with her and start to head towards them as she screams at her dad to paddle. And it feels like there\u2019s a reason you have a family in a film like this, and I think it\u2019s because most people seeing these films are part of a family and you relate to them a lot more maybe than the experts. And seeing a sequence like this through the eyes of a child is way more intense. In London, in the rapid section, it\u2019s freezing cold, and the actors, they were very tolerant, but we had to do take after take after take, as you can imagine and slowly through the day I could see the look in their eyes. They wanted to kill me and I would come up and give notes wearing this big, furry, warm winter coat and gloves and they would be like just convulsing and shaking with hate in their eyes for having to do another take.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n