Jurassic World Dominion star Sam Neill had to be persuaded to return in the show

Jurassic World Dominion is hitting theatres next week and it will mark the first time since Jurassic Park was released in 1993

The actor also revealed that it took some convincing to get him involved with the new movie

That was not really interesting to me. But I went to Sitges to a film festival there and I met Colin Trevorrow there

"Oh, no, I wasn't automatically," Neill explained. "I was getting rumors from my agent that Universal was talking about this, and they wanted me

He took me out to lunch. We had a long lunch, quite a lot of paella and a bottle or two of and yeah, and I was well persuaded by the end of that

So that was about October before we started shooting. We were supposed to start in February, I think

It ended up being more like May, June, of the next year, 2020. So it's been quite a long time in gestation when you think about it.