Actor Sam Neill recalls the marketing for the original Jurassic Park films in his new memoir, and how it damaged the morale of the film's lead actors.
According to actor Sam Neill, the original marketing for Jurassic Park frustrated the film's actors. Based on the 1990 novel by Michael Crichton of the same name, Jurassic Park was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1993, and is currently the 43rd highest-grossing film of all time.
I was racked by the usual insecurities. Why me? I’m certainly not an action hero. The idea of me going hand to hand with Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger is simply absurd. I’m more of the ordinary guy on screen. If indeed I was supposed to be that sort of action guy, I was already, I think, forty-five years old, and as always had left things about ten or fifteen years too late.
As it turned out, we know now that Harrison Ford turned down the part, so the ‘no movie star’ plan may be not entirely true. I emphasize the word ‘slightly’, because more than anything we were all delighted to be working with Steven. And to be working on something that would be absolutely groundbreaking, as it turned out.
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