There was a lot of things that I took away from that period. I was working with such a visionary director in Baz. Because I was playing someone who was very different from me, I was trying out a process of approaching a character that I hadn’t really tried out before. It really shaped the kind of actor that I am today. What was the best part about working on The Get Down ? But I just met him two days ago … and he’s awesome. What was it like working with Jeff Goldblum ? I think this new movie is going to hit all the things that people are expecting to see and want to see but also have this really cool new fantastical element. is really gifted at creating tone, and he adds this sense of mysticism and this kind of fairy-tale-ness to Fallen Kingdom that the other films don’t really have. What separates Fallen Kingdom from the other four Jurassic Park films? “My favorite Pokemon is, and was, Totodile.” Oh, and the story behind how he got his first name is absolutely hilarious. It’s because acting is truly what he lives for - although he also loves speaking French, watching culinary competitions on television, and some good ol’ Simon and Garfunkel. It’s a difficult part that Smith nearly missed out on, but one he landed as a testament to all the work he’s put in.

But now, Smith is embracing his biggest role yet: as an IT technician named Franklin Webb in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the latest installment of the epic series of dinosaur movies that began in 1993 with the timeless Jurassic Park. Pokemon fans have certainly heard that he’ll be starring as Tim Goodman in Detective Pikachu, which is scheduled to hit theaters in 2019. Guardiola) were the real-life embodiment of heart-eyed emojis. Or maybe in the short-lived musical drama series The Get Down, set in 1970s New York, in which Smith’s character Zeke and his love interest Mylene (Herizen F.

You must’ve seen him onscreen already - perhaps as Radar, a high schooler completely embarrassed by his parents’ extensive collection of black Santa memorabilia, in the 2015 film Paper Towns, which was inspired by the John Green novel of the same title. He hasn’t been in the acting game for long, but Justice Smith has made an early mark.

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