A Child Star from the OG Jurassic Park Movie Returned to Walk the Dominion Red Carpet

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Jurassic Park is iconic, but Lex Murphy's wide-eyed fear, a spoonful of green Jell-O shaking in her hand as she sees the shadow of an approaching raptor, has to be one of the most memorable moments.

And while Ariana Richards, who played Murphy in the 1993 movie and had a cameo in the 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, doesn't appear in the latest installment, , she did attend the red carpet premiere.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Now 42 and a painter, Richards appeared at the Hollywood premiere in a denim pantsuit paired with a white clutch and statement ring.

On the red carpet, she also playfully stuck her head inside a T-Rex's mouth. No spoilers about whether a character in the new film meets that particular end.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 , “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 , 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.