Laura Dern was only 23 years old during the first Jurassic Park movie

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Current Events » Laura Dern was only 23 years old during the first Jurassic Park movie
winstonthewhite
05/22/2022
08:44 AM
#1
https://twitter.com/ST_Culture/status/1528285588771700736

Genuinely surprised to learn that, thought she was in her 30s
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dummy420
05/22/2022
08:53 AM
#2
Yeah she looked much older I thought.
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Dakimakura
05/22/2022
08:56 AM
#3
I thot she was 40
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Jagr_68
05/22/2022
08:56 AM
#4
Oldest looking high schooler I've ever seen when she was in Blue Velvet.
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TheOnionKnight
05/22/2022
09:01 AM
#5
I've known for years that she's younger than she seems, but my brain still refuses to accept it and classifies her as being older. I think it's honestly due to her attitude more than her appearance. She has this sort of maturity/wisdom to her that feels fairly uncommon, and is pretty cool.
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Taharqa_
05/22/2022
09:01 AM
#6
John Ashton was only 36 when he played Sgt Taggart in the first Beverly Hills Cop

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indica
05/22/2022
09:05 AM
#7
Taharqa_ posted...
John Ashton was only 36 when he played Sgt Taggart in the first Beverly Hills Cop

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lilORANG
05/22/2022
09:17 AM
#8
She's gotten hotter with age tbh.
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AltyMcAltface
05/22/2022
10:25 AM
#10
whaaaat? she looked like she was pushing 40
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Jagr_68
05/22/2022
10:31 AM
#11
Taharqa_ posted...
John Ashton was only 36 when he played Sgt Taggart in the first Beverly Hills Cop

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lol not that uncommon when you read about Dean Norris in the original Total Recall.
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TheoryzC
05/22/2022
10:37 AM
#12
Most random hook up ever was her and Baron Davis lol
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CE_gonna_CE
05/22/2022
10:40 AM
#13
Julia Roberts is another one that trips me up. She was 21/22 while filming Pretty Woman
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CaptainOfCrush
05/22/2022
10:41 AM
#14
According to Wikipedia, she was born in 1967 and the movie came out in 1993 - she was 26 at release and 25 during filming.

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Billyionaire
05/22/2022
10:41 AM
#15
Indeed I would defile her booty. Sexually, of course

Real talk though the reason she seems so old in that movie is because her love interest is Sam Neill, who is quite a bit older than her
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JuanCarlos1
05/22/2022
10:42 AM
#16
Holy crap. Youd think she was around 30 at the very least. Btw Sam Neil is actually 74!
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SpanishDonkey_K
05/22/2022
10:43 AM
#17
Now the duo are back, they talk to @JonathanDean_ about patriarchy, politics and palaeontology

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Shadow Don
05/22/2022
10:44 AM
#18
Yea normally this stuff in movies is creepy as fuck but I don't think her character is supposed to be 23 in the movie.
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angeleyes94
05/22/2022
10:44 AM
#19
She was only 23 you sick fuck!?
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Bio1590
05/22/2022
10:46 AM
#20
Imagine the shitshow if they tried to pull that off today.
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The X Dawg
05/22/2022
10:49 AM
#21
Looks 35.
SaikyoStyle
05/22/2022
10:53 AM
#22
Its weird how things like that work. Like in Starship Troopers, Dean Norris is only 5 years older than Casper van Dien.
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DeadBankerDream
05/22/2022
10:55 AM
#23
Bio1590 posted...
Imagine the shitshow if they tried to pull that off today.
Are you okay? It literally happens all the time.

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rexcrk
05/22/2022
11:09 AM
#24


Its weird. Shes definitely attractive (and still is) but yeah she looks older than 23.

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NeonOctopus
05/22/2022
11:10 AM
#25
5yo Neon was obsessed with her legs in that movie >_____>
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Tom Clark
05/22/2022
11:14 AM
#26
This topic is just making me feel old as fuck.
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Crescente
05/22/2022
11:19 AM
#27
She's always had that old-but-fuckable look.
FortuneCookie
05/22/2022
11:24 AM
#28
She actually looked younger in the third movie than she did in the first one. I get the feeling that's why they made the otherwise pointless decision to break up Alan and Ellie. He looked like he was pushing fifty and she looked like she was thirty.

I still think it was stupid of the filmmakers. Ellie's nothing more than a cameo, so it's not like he has a young woman hanging on his old arm the whole film. The breakup contributed nothing to the story. It just undid the good feelings of the first film and that's the absolute worst thing a sequel can ever do.

I genuinely cannot think of a couple in a science fiction movie that I cared about more than Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler. That was the emotional core of the first movie whether people realized it or not. She wants kids. He hates kids. It's about Grant's journey from disliking children to realizing he's ready to become a father.

The dinosaur action sequences are just as good throughout the series. What's missing is that heart. It's characters that you care about. Owen Grady is fun, but he feels like he stepped out of a video game. I feel like he's the Sega Genesis version of Alan Grant who runs around throwing smoke grenades at dinosaurs. And his relationship with Claire feels a lot more Hollywood-y and less sincere than the relationship from the first movie.

ZannoL
05/22/2022
11:25 AM
#29
Ummm... she looks extremely old.

I didn't think she was in her 20's at all.
RedRanger
05/22/2022
11:27 AM
#30
Thats crazy. So was she hooking up with her older boss/mentor? And thats why their relationship didnt last?
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COVxy
05/22/2022
11:31 AM
#31
I think more inappropriate was that she was his student.
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FortuneCookie
05/22/2022
11:33 AM
#32
I thought she was his student in the novel -- engaged to a doctor and not romantically linked to Alan in any way -- and his partner in the movie.

DeadBankerDream
05/22/2022
11:35 AM
#33
COVxy posted...
I think more inappropriate was that she was his student.
In the book she was his student and they weren't romantic. In the movie I don't remember if they ever said she was a student of his.
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RedRanger
05/22/2022
11:37 AM
#34
Allan about to get metooed.
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CaptainOfCrush
05/22/2022
11:37 AM
#35
FortuneCookie posted...
I thought she was his student in the novel -- engaged to a doctor and not romantically linked to Alan in any way -- and his partner in the movie.
Yeah, there's nothing in the movie that even hints at her being his student/junior/subordinate. They're both doctors and seem to carry equal authority in their respective fields.
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COVxy
05/22/2022
12:02 PM
#36
Huh, i could have sworn they mentioned she was his phd student in the past.
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Bio1590
05/22/2022
12:02 PM
#37
DeadBankerDream posted...

Are you okay? It literally happens all the time.

And it's fine.

It's still weird as shit. But I mean if they had given Bryce Dallas Howard's role to some 20-year old actress instead it definitely would've raised some eyebrows.
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DeadBankerDream
05/22/2022
12:12 PM
#38
Yeah, a 20 year old being in charge of daily running of a park of dangerous and extremely expensive to develop and maintain genetic constructs would be extremely weird.
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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
05/22/2022
12:13 PM
#39
She looked older and that is never good for a woman, thought she was early 30s in JP 1.
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RedRanger
05/22/2022
12:39 PM
#40
RedRanger posted...
Allan about to get metooed.
My teacher used his position of power to coerce me into a sexual relationship then took me to an island retreat where a dinosaur nearly ate my face off.
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Southernfatman
05/22/2022
12:40 PM
#41
Yeah, she looked older, but she was and still is good looking so...

TheOnionKnight posted...
I've known for years that she's younger than she seems, but my brain still refuses to accept it and classifies her as being older. I think it's honestly due to her attitude more than her appearance. She has this sort of maturity/wisdom to her that feels fairly uncommon, and is pretty cool.

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KCJ5062
05/22/2022
01:09 PM
#42
That article's math is a bit off. She was born in 1967. So was 26 when the first Jurassic Park came out and 24-25 when it was filmed. But yeah, she did look like she was at least in her 30s at the time.

Judith Hoag who played April in the first TMNT was only 21-22 at the time. She looked around late 20s/early 30s. Alison Doody was 23 in The Last Crusade. She looked at least like she was in her 30s. Hell that's probably the age her character was seeing as how she was an experienced archaeologist.
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ncsonic
05/22/2022
01:13 PM
#43
She was looking older and he was looking younger, I think thats the only thing Hollywood cared about
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lilORANG
05/22/2022
01:15 PM
#44
Keira Knightley was a teenager in that first Pirates movie.
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iron jojo
05/22/2022
01:17 PM
#45
Well, it felt completely appropriate to fall in love with Sam Neill. And it was only now, when we returned in a moment of cultural awareness about the patriarchy, that I was, like, Wow! Were not the same age?
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KCJ5062
05/22/2022
01:28 PM
#46
People seemed to have aged faster back then. I've seen high school pictures from back in the 60s and 70s and some people already looked like they were pushing 30. I've also watched movies and TV shows from around those times and some of the actors looked like they were at least a decade older than their actual age.

For instance, when All In The Family premiered, Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were only in their mid 40s. They looked at least mid 60s. Rob Reiner was also only in his early 20s and he looked at least late 30s. Abe Vigoda already looked like he was in his 70s in The Godfather. Angela Lansbury pretty much always looked older than she was. The actor that played her son in the original Manchurian Candidate was only just a few years younger than her.
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What_
05/22/2022
01:29 PM
#47
dummy420 posted...
Yeah she looked much older I thought.

Taharqa_
05/22/2022
02:52 PM
#48
I was looking into some more actors and found out Sherman Helmsley was only 37 when The Jeffersons first aired

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Lost_All_Senses
05/22/2022
02:55 PM
#49
Plot twist. All the actors we thought looked late 20s that played high schoolers were actual high schoolers at the time.
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Southernfatman
05/22/2022
02:58 PM
#50
I was a bit surprised when I learned Chris Bauer was only 36-7 when he played Frank Sobotka in The Wire.

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