Rupert Friend missed the birth of his daughter as he was filming Jurassic World Rebirth

Rupert recalled during an appearance on Today on Monday (23.06.25): "I'm hoisted up on a wire, a hundred feet in the air, doing a stunt, the crew start saying, 'Get him down, get him down.'"

When told that his wife was on the phone, he said: "I'm like, 'Honey, I'm a little busy.' And my wife's waters had broken. So then it was a mad dash to get on the last seat on the last plane out of England to get all the way back to the States to be there for the birth, which I very sadly missed."

Rupert did get to see his daughter's birth on FaceTime at the airport and was grateful for his plane being delayed.

The Asteroid City actor said: "Nearly missed the flight and there was that fateful thing where it was like, do I stay on FaceTime 'cause I need to see this? Or do I get the plane because I need to get there?

"And then that wonderful - I'll never forget it - sound came through the airport and they said, 'Ding-dong, your flight is delayed for 20 minutes', and that's when they said, 'You have a baby girl.'"

Rupert added: "She's always gonna be a dino baby."

Meanwhile, the star previously recalled how he turned down the chance to play James Bond as he felt that he was too young for the role after being approached at the age of 22.

Friend told Variety in 2023: "I was told, 'We'd love to talk to you about playing James Bond, but rebooting the series. We want to do him basically straight out of college.'

"And I met Barbara Broccoli and her brother Michael and Debbie McWilliams, the casting director for Bond. Obviously I've watched them growing up and just love all the actors and all the movies."

The Homeland star continued: "Basically they said: you'll do a screen test, and if it goes well, you're signed up for three pictures which you won't read and you won't know who the director is. You're basically handcuffed to it.

"And I suddenly was like, 'I just feel at this point in my life and career, I'm too young, I don't have the experience, I don't have the acting chops and I don't have any of the hard knocks - emotionally, psychologically, physically - that a great Bond should have. So I'm gonna politely decline.'

"That was probably a bit of an eyebrow raise for them."