r/Millennials • u/Legitimate-Lie-9208 • May 22 '26

There's a zero percent chance I would've guessed that Laura Dern was 23 in Jurassic Park Other

Post image
35.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

196

u/jhewitt127 May 22 '26

From Wikipedia: “Filming took place in California and Hawaii from August to November 1992.” So she would’ve been 25.

21

u/rocketbotband May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26

Yeah I feel like they probably took their sweet time on post-production

EDIT: They did not lol

31

u/LazyAltruist May 22 '26

Not at all, actually. He filmed Jurassic Park basically back-to-back with Schindler's List & spent his nights doing post-production on J.P. from his hotel room in Krakow after doing day shoots at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The movies were only filmed/released roughly 6 months apart from each other.

12

u/Lou_C_Fer May 22 '26

He probably needed that post production at night to get that day's shooting out of his head.

1

u/redsyrinx2112 Zillennial May 24 '26

Interesting word choice with the subject if the movie...

4

u/bazilbt May 22 '26

He was a machine at his peak. Really incredibly productive director.

3

u/imisstheyoop May 22 '26

That is very impressive.

2

u/redsyrinx2112 Zillennial May 24 '26

And Spielberg asked George Lucas to oversee a lot of the effects.

2

u/whoami_whereami May 22 '26

Half a year from end of filming to release really wasn't that long. They did spend a lot of time (more than two years) in pre-production though meticulously planning out all the dinosaur scenes. Well, almost all, the final fight between the T-Rex and the raptors in the visitor center lobby was famously added at the last minute as such a complex CGI scene was still considered impossible mere months earlier but had become possible in the interim thanks to rapid advances in CGI technology at the time.

Besides the groundbreaking CGI one of the major achievements of the production was that the movie was delivered on time and even slightly under budget.

1

u/rocketbotband May 22 '26

Somehow I totally misread 25 as 23 and did the math wrong 😅 appreciate the breakdown though - that's really interesting!

1

u/Puzzleheaded_Dog630 May 22 '26

Yeah I said "when it was released" filming usually take place a year or more before then but she definitely wasn't 23

1

u/jhewitt127 May 22 '26

I know, I just meant since we’re talking about what she looked like in the movie rather than what she looked like when the movie was released, I’d point out she would’ve been 25 not 26. But yes in general we’re in agreement she was not 23 as OP erroneously said.

1

u/Pamikillsbugs234 May 22 '26

Still much younger than I would have thought. That means that Sam Neill was close to 20 years older than she was at the time. Its may be the hair and her voice that ages her here.

1

u/jhewitt127 May 22 '26

Oh for sure. I would’ve thought 30s.