Laura Dern’s back in business. ‘I just love this character,’ she says of her palaeobotanist from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dinosaur classic Jurassic Park. ‘I feel blessed to get to play her again.
I mean, how beautiful to have all these years of people inspired and influenced by the film and this character – particularly women who’ve told me the industries they have gone into because of Dr Ellie Sattler. ’We’re chatting over Zoom, with Dern, 55, sitting right alongside a poster for Jurassic World Dominion, the roar-some conclusion to one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.
Just like last year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the legacy cast return, with Dern reunited with former co-stars Sam Neill (as paleontologist Alan Grant) andJeff Goldblum (chaos theory-spouting Dr Ian Malcolm).
As reunions go, when this trio finally got to London’s Pinewood Studios in 2020, it was emotional. ‘When the three of us came together the first day we shot, we took pictures.
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