Laura Dern, Bryce Dallas Howard & DeWanda Wise Talk Putting Women Front And Centre In ‘Jurassic World Dominion’
etcanada.comWomen are inheriting the earth. This week, the women of “Jurassic World Dominion” — Laura Dern, Bryce Dallas Howard, and DeWanda Wise — are on the new cover of Variety, and inside, talk about the feminism of the franchise. READ MORE: Laura Dern, Sam Neill & Jeff Goldblum Look Back On ‘Jurassic Park’ 30 Years Later Looking back on the original “Jurassic Park”, Dern marvels at the inclusion of the iconic line, “Dinosaurs eat man.
Woman inherits the earth,” which was not in the original script. “God bless everyone involved who allowed this to be in a movie,” she says. “Because that’s what it felt like at that time.
I felt like we got away with something.” Though the actress admits her preferred feminist line from the 1993 classic is, “We can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back.” “It’s just so perfect, because we get to repeat some of that energy — ‘We’ll take care of the business’ — while there may be boys shirtless in the scene,” Dern says, recalling the image of a shirtless Jeff Goldblum, which has since become an online meme. “It was so enjoyable to me.
She’s like, ‘I’ll be over here taking care of stuff; you just rest yourself.’” The new film also sees the romance between Howard and Chris Pratt’s characters finally resolved into an actual relationship. “We were all totally in agreement that we would move beyond the will-they- or-won’t-they, and it was clear that they were a family,” Howard says, adding of the characters’ steamy kiss in the new film, “I have always been the one to push for more romance.
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