Here’s What Laura Dern and Sam Neill Think About Their Characters’ Age Difference in ‘Jurassic Park’

In 1993, when the first Jurassic Park, not many people found the age difference between Laura Dern and Sam Neill shocking. Moreover, at the time, the question had not even crossed the minds of the two actors who formed a couple on the screen.

“I am 20 years older than Laura. Which, at that time, was a completely appropriate age difference for an on-screen couple,” Sam Neill assured the Sunday Timesthen explaining that he had become aware of the problem by reading an article which compared him to Sean Connery and Harrisson Ford who systematically had female partners much younger than them on the screen.

However, Laura Dern was not much more sensitive to the question: “It seemed perfectly appropriate to fall in love with Sam Neill. »

A different context

But while Laura Dern and Sam Neill are back in Jurassic World: The World After, it is clear that the context is no longer the same. “It’s only now, when we’re back in a context of cultural awareness of patriarchy, that I’m like, ‘Wow! We are not the same age? “Surprised Laura Dern.

Since then, the franchise has, in a way, rectified the situation since Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are only a year apart. Jurassic World: The World After arrives in theaters on June 8.