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Though her character doesn’t make a return this time around, several of Richards’s Jurassic Park co-stars do appear in the new movie: Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum all reprise their roles from the original film.
Speaking of returning to the franchise after all these years, Dern said in a recent interview, “I can say that it was incredible to be back together. It was an amazing thing to join my original cast members and go down memory lane, from that experience in the beginning of a franchise through the whole course of these films together with all the key cast members who have been working on these movies, as well as [director] Colin Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg, who is like family to me.”
She also reflected on the love story in the original film, which isn’t exactly inappropriate, but is perhaps questionable viewed through today’s lens (Neill is 20 years older than Dern). “Well, it felt completely appropriate to fall in love with Sam Neill,” Dern said. “And it was only now, when we returned in a moment of cultural awareness about the patriarchy, that I was, like, ‘Wow! We’re not the same age?’”
Hey, if the dinosaurs have taught us anything, it’s that some things should stay in the past.
