Laura Dern weighs in on where the Ellie and Alan relationship lands in JurassicWorldDominion ...
Last we saw Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler on screen was in Jurassic Park III when she was home sweet home with her family working on a book. She was able to pitch in by calling for help from the mainland just when Alan Grant needed it most while running for his life on Isla Sorna, but in Jurassic World Dominion she’s back in action full force. In fact, her expertise as a paleobotanist is needed now more than ever.
“The gift of genius animatronics starting with the amazing Stan Winston. To walk on set and see a creature, either the most beautiful creature you’ve ever seen in your life or the most horrific, disgusting and terrifying creature, that it all comes alive because of other’s mastery. And in both films with both sets of teams and puppeteers and painters that have just made masterful practical dinosaurs, it’s a dream come true, yet again.
“On the first movie, we lived through a Level 5 hurricane together on the island of Kauai, and it brought us together in a very deep way as a family. But nothing, even that, could have prepared us for what it would mean having started the film and the pandemic occurring and being the first film back after we shut down.