Laura Dern on Reuniting With Sam Neill and What Makes Ellie Sattler a Radical Character (Exclusive)
etonline.com, Laura Dern is reprising the role nearly 30 years later in. In the latest installment of the film franchise, she as well as her original co-stars, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, return to star alongside Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
This time, the characters get sucked back into the dinosaur saga after the creatures have been released all around the earth.
Ahead of the film’s anticipated debut in theaters, Dern spoke to ET’s Kevin Frazier about what it was like getting the gang back together, especially reuniting with Neill, and opened up about what made her character so “radical.” “This is amazing,” Dern says of getting to spend time with her former co-stars, recalling that “one of my favorite memories of the whole experience was the first day that Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum and I had a scene together.”“We got into a Jeep and as we got in position, we looked out and the crew was surrounding the Jeep and were teary-eyed because they were seeing these characters that they had loved from the first film come back together,” she continues. “I think the franchise has meant a lot to people growing up, and I think [director] Colin Trevorrow wanted to bring the nostalgia of the first film back as well.” Not only that, but the new film sees Sattler and Dr.
Alan Grant (Neill) revisit their relationship from the first movie. While Dern won’t reveal if the two get back together (“Let’s just see what happens!”), she does gush over working with Neill again. “I mean, Sam Neill is the dream come true,” she says.“He’s just an extraordinary gentleman and the minute I walked [along] that dig site into the tent and there was Dr.
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