Bryce Dallas Howard said she was happy to work alongside her “tall” co-star Chris Pratt in Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom. The 37-year-old actress, who reprises her role of Claire in the new film, said there were instances where she had to “slump down” to look good in a frame with actors who were shorter her. “It’s awesome — Chris is the best. He’s one of those happy, hilarious people. Plus he’s so tall, which is great because I’m kind of tall too,” Howard said, according to FemaleFirst. “I’m used to slumping down next to the people that I work with so that it looks OK in the frame. It was great to be back with Chris and to stand proud and tall.”

 

Simon Pegg — Benji Dunn in the Mission Impossible franchise — is planning to make his feature directorial debut. In an interview with Empire magazine, the 48-year-old actor-writer shared his plans for his maiden directing gig which he might start shooting in November. “My directorial debut... Will hopefully be shooting by the end of this year,” Pegg said.

Antonio Banderas revealed veteran actor Anthony Hopkins once gave him a pep talk to help him prepare for a scene in The Mask of Zorro. During the “Couch Surfing” on People TV, the 57-year-old actor, who currently plays Pablo Picasso on National Geographic’s Genius series, recalled his experience of working with Hopkins on the film. Banderas said there was a day when he was struggling with his lines and Hopkins, 80, noticed it. “He said, ‘Come with me’. There was a big mirror. ‘What do you see?’ he asked me,” he recalled. Banderas answered “Me”. He said, however, Hopkins saw someone else in the mirror. “He said, ‘No, you see Zorro. You don’t have to do anything. Just walk, man. Just say the lines. Just throw them away. You’re Zorro’,” he remembered the Hollywood veteran as saying.