BD Wong Answers All Our Questions About Jurassic Park

When Colin Trevorrow decided to bring BD Wong’s Dr. Henry Wu back for Jurassic World in 2015, it felt like justice for fans annoyed by the first film’s heavily truncated version of the character. Wu has been rightfully re-centered in the narrative, and is now the second most constant element in the Jurassic franchise, after the dinosaurs themselves (when Jurassic World: Dominion comes out this summer, Wong will have appeared in 4 of the 6 films in the JPU, matched only by Jeff Goldblum.) The current day Dr. Wu is more polished, more confident, and far less naive than the smiling wunderkind with the clipboard we met in 1993. Wong sat down with Vulture to discuss Wu’s journey since the first film, how he himself understands the legacy of this work, and how much he really hates lab coats.