Laura Dern And Sam Neil Discuss Their ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ Characters’ 20 Year Age Gap
deadline.comIt’s not just the dinosaurs that have evolved in the Jurassic World universe, turns out the humans have as well. In a recent interview with the Sunday Times franchise star Sam Neill, 74, observed that at the time of the first film in 1993 no one batted an eye at the age difference between he and onscreen love interest Laura Dern, who is now 55.
The 20-year gap “at the time was a completely appropriate age difference for a leading man and lady,” said Neill. His a-ha moment came years later. “I opened a magazine and there was an article called ‘Old Geezers and Gals,'” he remembered.
It included “people like Harrison Ford and Sean Connery acting with much younger people. And there I was, on the list. I thought, ‘Come on.
It can’t be true.'” And then the actor says he realized, “I am 20 years older than Laura!” Even Dern, no shrinking violet when it comes to issues of gender equality, says she didn’t notice at first.“Well, it felt completely appropriate to fall in love with Sam Neill,” she told the Times. “And it was only now, when we returned in a moment of cultural awareness about the patriarchy, that I was, like, ‘Wow!
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