Alan Grant has seen ‘Jurassic Park’ fewer times than you, and all 30 years ago.
‘Jurassic World: Dominion‘ premieres this week in the US and Spain and. While we read the first reactions, the cast members continue to tour in support, giving interviews and doing publicity acts. Sam Neil has spoken with Gizmodo and has revealed several secrets about the Jurassic saga and about his character, the Doctor Alan Grant.
Neill returns to the universe of ‘Jurassic Park‘ beside Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dernbringing the leading trio together for the first time 29 years later of the original.
Neill had already participated in ‘jurassic park III‘, the one with the worst box office and review results, and in these statements he tells us how Colin Trevorrow got him to put the Alan Grant hat back on, why ‘Jurassic Park’ has become the classic it is today, and how Doctor Grant would have disapproved of the new opening of the park in ‘Jurassic World’.
Alan Grant hasn’t changed a thing in 30 years
“I don’t think it has changed at all. Now he is older and more grumpy. But I don’t think people change much over the years, and I’m more familiar with it now than I was before. And I enjoyed being back in his company. It’s interesting. You don’t get many chances to play a character for 30 years. Jeff’s character is still really annoying and won’t shut up, which Alan finds infuriating.. So things haven’t changed that much. They’re just older and not much wiser.”
Why ‘Jurassic Park’ has lasted over time?
“We were doing popular culture. Isn’t it strange how things that are made for popular consumption sometimes persist? You know, if you think back to my time, progressive rock took itself very seriously for a while. Nobody remembers it anymore. And that was done with serious intentions. While, I don’t know, a song like ‘be my baby‘, can never perish. And there’s something about that first ‘Jurassic Park’… It exploded because it broke new ground. It was something that struck a chord at the time and oddly enough it has become timeless. I’m not sure I can fully explain why that is.”
Sam Neill has seen ‘Jurassic Park’ fewer times than you
“I was walking through a mall the other day, a big mall, and there was some music playing. And I thought, ‘This sounds familiar.’ And the person I was with was like, ‘Do you recognize this music?’ He said, ‘It looks familiar.’ And they were like, ‘You’re so dumb, this is the Jurassic Park theme, for God’s sake.’“
Colin Trevorrow recruited him in Sitges
“I got rumors from my agent that Universal was talking about this, and they wanted me, Jeff and Laura to be on it, but really I didn’t want to be in something where I was just doing a cameo. That wasn’t really interesting to me. But I went to Sitges to a film festival and there I met the co-writer and director Colin Trevorrowand took me out to lunch.”
‘Jurassic Park III’ is underrated
“It was wonderful to work with Joe Johnson. I think it’s a very good movie undervalued and really worth seeing again despite all their difficulties, because it became inevitable that we would start filming on the first of November or whatever, and they kept changing the script. But despite everything, I think it works very well and contains some really good stuff.”
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