LOS ANGELES — Midway through an aside about her grandparents' traveling vaudeville days, Bryce Dallas Howard's eyes light up. A scoop of gelato has arrived during a break in a jet-setting press tour: "Sustenance!" she exclaims. Alas, it is more than she bargained for. Now an array of way too much ice cream sits before her, destined for a melty fate.
Her brow furrows slightly as she goes into problem-solving mode.
"Does anyone want any of this?" she asks, looking around the room. She frets for a second at the waste of perfectly good gelato, then snaps back to the topic at hand, one of the reasons she's been trekking all over the world of late: her big-screen return as Claire Dearing, co-protagonist of the last three "Jurassic World" blockbusters, in the finale installment "Jurassic World Dominion."