22-05-2025
Luna Blaise on 'Jurassic World Rebirth' and Her Hollywood Dreams
Justin French
Trench coat, jumpsuit, bodysuit, heels, Ferragamo. Necklace, Bulgari.
When Luna Blaise's parents took her to the movies as a child in Hollywood, she looked up in awe, wondering how she could inhabit the world of the characters above. 'I would go down to the floor where the screen was, because I wanted to physically get inside,' she says from the backyard of her mom's Los Angeles home, dressed in an oversize cardigan, her hair pulled back in a low bun. 'I always told my parents, 'I wanna be in the screen. How do I do that?''
Now the 23-year-old is starring in the type of blockbuster movie she grew up watching, making her major feature film debut this summer in
Jurassic World Rebirth
. 'I remember watching the first
J
urassic Park
movie at my house,' she says. 'It's such an iconic franchise, and I'm so grateful that I get to be able to be a part of something that is so loved.'
When she thinks about the projects she hopes to take on in her career, she doesn't want to limit herself to any specific genre or type of character. 'I just want to make sure that anything that I'm involved in inspires me and that I'm always keeping up with new directors, scripts, and writers,' she says. 'I think it'd be fun to do a horror film. I think it'd be fun to do a great comedy. Acting is such a wide umbrella. I'm just grateful to be doing it.'
Justin French
Jacket, skirt, Chanel. Rings, Tiffany & Co.
After spending years on television, most notably in the NBC-turned-Netflix hit sci-fi drama series
Manifest
, a story about a flight that reappears five years after it went missing, Blaise is excited to inhabit another dystopian world.
The newest installment in the beloved
Jurassic
franchise follows a research team that travels to a remote island on a top-secret mission to find some forgotten dinosaurs that were once thought to be extinct. Blaise plays Teresa Delgado, a member of a family that is rescued by the research team after their vacation plans are ruined by dinosaurs, and joins
'Acting is such a wide umbrella. I'm just grateful to be doing it.'
'It's a whole new band of characters that nobody's seen before,' she says. 'It's a new story and a new chapter.' While filming the movie in Thailand, Malta, and London, Blaise took the opportunity to learn as much as she could from her co-stars. 'I was just watching everyone and studying how they practice and work,' she says. 'Just being in their orbit was really cool.' (And, she notes, it was nice to see a woman in a powerful leadership role: 'Seeing Scarlett man the troops and be the captain of our ship was awesome.')
Justin French
Trench coat, jumpsuit, bodysuit, heels, Ferragamo.
Being on set with actors like Johansson felt like the culmination of all her childhood dreams—she's on the inside of the screen now. When she was 11, Blaise left school to focus on acting professionally and booked her first show, a small role on ABC's
Fresh Off the Boat
, shortly after.
Though she was homeschooled, she was adamant about maintaining friendships, continuing to go with her friends to football games and school dances. 'That's something I look back on fondly—I'm so glad that I was able to have the best of both worlds,' she says. 'I had the career that I wanted at such a young age, and also the life that I wanted.'
And that's what still guides her now: 'I can't really get distracted by the glitz and the glamour. I'm happy to be a normal girl acting and doing her thing.'
Hair by
Sami Knight for Rehab
; makeup by Alexandra French at Forward Artists; manicure by Jolene Brodeur at The Wall Group; produced by Anthony Federici at Petty Cash Production; photographed at Malibu Creek Ranch.
A version of this story appears in the Summer 2025 issue of ELLE.
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