{"id":594519,"date":"2026-04-19T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:12:12","slug":"the-jurassic-world-character-you-had-no-idea-glen-powell-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594519\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jurassic World Character You Had No Idea Glen Powell Played"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/intro-1776096335.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2146764\/glen-powell-jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous-character-dave\/\" data-post-id=\"2146764\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"The Jurassic World Character You Had No Idea Glen Powell Played: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"The T-rex roaring in the middle of a plaza in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Netflix<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Glen Powell is one of Hollywood&#8217;s true rising stars right now. Over the last several years, he&#8217;s ascended to leading man status thanks to hits like &#8220;Top Gun: Maverick,&#8221; &#8220;Hit Man,&#8221; and &#8220;Anyone But You.&#8221; Universal even tried to give him a role in last year&#8217;s &#8220;Jurassic World Rebirth,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1877460\/why-glen-powell-rejected-jurassic-world-rebirth-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">but Powell rejected it<\/a>. Had he taken the job, though, it actually would have been the actor&#8217;s second role in this legendary franchise.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Though even die-hard fans of both &#8220;Jurassic&#8221; and\/or Powell would be forgiven for not connecting the dots, the actor previously played a significant character in the animated series &#8220;Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.&#8221; The show ran for five seasons on Netflix between 2020-2022, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/750171\/jurassic-world-tv-show-has-not-been-discussed-producer-frank-marshall-confirms-exclusive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">although\u00a0a live-action &#8220;Jurassic World&#8221; TV series hasn&#8217;t been discussed<\/a>, the franchise has flourished in the animated realm.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Camp Cretaceous&#8221; follows a group of six teenagers who are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp located at Jurassic World on the opposite side of Isla Nublar. However, when dinosaurs break out and wreak havoc across the island, the campers are left stranded.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Season 1 takes place at the same time as the events of 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Jurassic World,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/891447\/tales-from-the-box-office-jurassic-world-is-the-most-successful-legacy-sequel-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">itself one of the most successful legacy sequels ever at the box office<\/a>. Powell voiced Dave, one of the two camp counselors who were heading up this experience for the campers. The other counselor, Roxie, was voiced by Jameela Jamil (&#8220;The Good Place&#8221;). Powell&#8217;s character appeared in 14 of the show&#8217;s 50 episodes, mostly in the first and final seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is an important entry in the franchise<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous-is-an-important-entry-in-the-franchise-1776096337.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/2146764\/glen-powell-jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous-character-dave\/\" data-post-id=\"2146764\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"The Jurassic World Character You Had No Idea Glen Powell Played: Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is an important entry in the franchise\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Dave greeting the campers in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 1\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    Netflix<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fans of &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; and the franchise overall have mixed feelings about many of its big screen follow-ups, particularly &#8220;Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom&#8221; and &#8220;Jurassic World Dominion.&#8221; This, in turn, is why certain people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/891012\/why-camp-cretaceous-is-the-best-jurassic-park-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">regard &#8220;Camp Cretaceous&#8221; as the best &#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; sequel<\/a> altogether. Yes, it&#8217;s a show designed for kids, but it&#8217;s made with a lot of love and has a sense of wonder to it. But perhaps most of all, it&#8217;s a &#8220;Jurassic&#8221; project that offers something genuinely different from a new perspective.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Indeed, &#8220;Camp Cretaceous&#8221; has helped to endear the property to a younger generation, which will serve to keep it relevant for years to come. It even got a sequel series titled &#8220;Jurassic World: Chaos Theory,&#8221; which wrapped up its run last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/1703511\/netflix-jurassic-world-chaos-theory-one-thing-movies-refused\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;Chaos Theory&#8221; even did the one thing the &#8220;Jurassic World&#8221; movies have refused to do<\/a>, which is let dinosaurs truly run wild throughout the world with people.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">All of this to say: The &#8220;Jurassic World&#8221; animated shows have become important to the franchise, and Glen Powell had his part to play in those proceedings. In a 2020 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/glen-powell-jurassic-world-camp-cretaceous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, the actor explained that the role of Dave was written specifically for him, which made it easier for him to step into those shoes:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;They actually wrote this part for me. So, it was easy and fun for me to go into the booth and play around. But when you&#8217;re running away from dinosaurs, there are so many different versions of how scared you need to be, so I think I did like 50 different screams and pants and grunts. You get a little lightheaded on the drive home for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous&#8221; is streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Netflix Glen Powell is one of Hollywood&#8217;s true&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-594519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}