Her character gave the impression of being in her thirties with a doctorate and tons of experience, regardless how old the actress was. In the books she was apparently in her "late twenties" so that reasonably tracks.
Dude I legit thought she was like 40 and was the secret parents of the kids with the dude
Wasnt she introduced as Dr. Ellie Satler? She completed her doctorate in paleobiology before 24 and she outran a velociraptor!
If you graduate college at 21, you could possibly finish your PhD by 24…would definitely be a bit of a rush but maybe in the Jurassic Park universe there’s so much demand for those sorts of experts that they fast-tracked it.
Dr. Ellie Satler is in her late twenties, according to the book. Laura Dern, the actress, was simply playing older than she actually was. Also, in the context of these films, Jurassic Park's operations were still a tightly held secret at the time Dr. Satler would have been obtaining her credentials.
she outran a velociraptor!
They were deinonychus theropods, velociraptor theropods are the size of small turkeys
Wasn’t Sigourney Weaver in her early 20s when she played the sensible cat lady in Alien?
Sigourney was 29 during the filming of the first Alien film.
How would you describe The Fifth Element?
Creepy old guy grooms young girl.
That describes most of Luc Besson’s movies, doesn’t it?
They had to chaperone Natalie Portman when she was working with him to keep her safe. He’s, shall we say, a well-known missing stair.
Missing stair is a very interesting and aptly-named phenomenon. TIL not only about that, but about Portman needing a chaperone around that guy! Thank you x2!
Apt because they can both be fixed with a hammer.
Willis/Pacino/De Nero all have that same thing in a bunch of movies.
Actress is like 20, they're in their late 40s/50s
Just rewatched heat. Really good movie, but De Nero was 50+ with the actress he was supposed to be in love with...she was 20 something. It's just fucking weird, dude was old enough to be her father, and not the "I had a kid when I was 16" either.
Off-screen, Pacino is 84 and currently dating a 30 year old. A 20/30 year age gap on-screen seems quaint by comparison
Dirty Grandpa
Obviously the age difference is weird but was Korbin creepy? I remember him being super chill and circumstances kind of forced them together without either him or Lelu really leaning into it.
It’s less the actions of the character himself and more the general dynamic between the two that’s rather odd.
Primarily the dynamic of the being both a mentor/father figure AND a lover to a woman who has quite literally just been born.
There's a few interesting YouTube documentaries on the topic of "born sexy yesterday"
Yea that's how I usually watch this movie too.
Even better than the first 4!
because the character she played has a doctorate.
This just in, Hollywood make-up can make you look like whatever age the script wants.
Because she looks way older than 23 here.
She also acted very mature for her age.
"girl" is still misleading. At 23 she was still a woman and adult,just a younger woman than one might have assumed
Some people just have a mature looking face even when they are young. And they will look the same age for pretty much their whole life
Like James May, who's looked mid forties for about forty years.
Weirdly accurate
I'm mid-forties. If James May looks mid-forties, then I look like an embryo.
Not only that, but her character was mature too.
Yeah but why does this only apply to people born before the 80s? I've never seen a 20-something in the 2000s and beyond who looked 40+, not the way I've seen older people when they were young. I blame leaded gasoline.
You haven't been looking hard enough, and hollywood doesn't cast them anymore. I work with someone who is 23 and looks like she's 38, I expect she's going to look the exact same age for the next 25 years.
Hair cuts and clothing also make a huge difference. They had her dressed like a late 80s mom.
As a young man of 8 years old when the film came out, her legs in those shorts awoke something in me
Reading the book, you'd think Crichton felt the same way. He mentions it a suspicious amount.
costume, hair and makeup. the same way we make assumptions about age IRL. you know how you look at old photos and see people in highschool looking like your parents? because your parents were probably in highschool around that time and they dressed and styled a certain way and you associated that with your parents' age.
the "founding fathers" of the US were all in their early 20s.
A few were, not all, in 1776 -
Thomas Jefferson was 33 John Adams was 40 George Washington was 44 Samuel Adams was 53 Benjamin Franklin was 70
This is false. Ben Franklin was nearly 70 in 1776. Only a handful were even below 20, let alone early 20s.
Below 30?
I'm sorry, what?!
Wait, does this mean she actually was a teenager in Blue Velvet? I always kind if assumed she was a 20-something playing a teenager in that movie.
Looks like she was 19 when that movie released, maybe younger whenever it was filmed.
One might infer the filming preceded release, so yes indeed she would have been younger! (I've been sick and slightly delirious, don't mind me being ornery)
Shit
Wasn't she 25? Looks like filming started in Aug 1992 and she was born in Feb 1967 so she would have been 25.
Christ though. Wasn't she in a relationship with Dr. Grant (who looked to be in his 50's), or am I completely misremembering?
The actor, Sam Neill, was in his mid 40s when Jurassic Park was filmed. So he wasn't quite 50 but still more than a little bit of age gap. Artistically I'd say it worked because I always thought he looked younger in the film (mid to late 30s) and Laura Dern looked older in the film (late 20s early 30s). Which kind of closes that age gap into something less creepy.
He was probably younger than we remember too.
Although when I looked this up yesterday, I did see that the actor was in a real relationship with Jeff Goldblum for a while.
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