After breaking out in the hit series “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” actor David Iacono heads to the big screen this summer in the latest Jurassic Park movie, “Jurassic World Rebirth.” For the film’s Manhattan premiere, the New York-based actor wore a denim set by Enrage in a reference to the franchise, with his whole family in attendance.
“I had my parents there, my grandparents, my sister, my sister’s boyfriend, my uncles, and two of my best buddies that I grew up with since I was a kid. Having them there was just kind of the most important thing to me,” Iacono says. “[The premiere] was in Lincoln Center, which was across the street from the high school that I went to. I would walk through Lincoln Center every morning to get to school. So it was all just a beautifully full circle moment.”
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Iacono, who plays Xavier, part of a small sailboat group who gets swept up in the dinosaur exploring mission, worked with stylist Benjamin Holtrop on the Enrage denim look for the night.
“I wanted to give a little bit of a nod to something Jurassic related. I’m just such a fan of the original movie, and this movie is such a nod to the original movie,” Iacono says. “Alan Grant’s outfit in the original ‘Jurassic Park’ was definitely something that inspired what I was wearing: he wears a cool denim button up and a red bandana around his neck – so essentially, I just kind of copied Alan Grant’s outfit from the movie.”
Iacono sent in an audition tape for the film while he was in Toronto working on the movie “Fear Street: Prom Queen” last year.
“I had just gotten home from a really long day at work on set, and my friend Josh, who’s also an actor, jumped on FaceTime and helped me with the tape, and I was so exhausted but I, of course, really, really wanted to get it in,” Iacono recalls. “I don’t even know if I knew that it was ‘Jurassic World,’ but I knew that it was a big project nonetheless. And I got a call back about maybe two weeks later.”
The film shot in Thailand for months, which won Iacono over with its welcoming culture.
“I’d never been that far from home in my life, let alone for work. So to be surrounded by such kindhearted people that were taking care of me at this beautiful resort, in this gorgeous environment that I had never experienced, that made it all 10 times easier. I felt so privileged to be able to have, not only have people take care of me in this gorgeous setting, but also have them be such kind-hearted people and such welcoming people,” he says. “So that made it so easy to get comfortable there.”