20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Jurassic Park Franchise
15. Richard Attenborough Slept Through A Hurricane
Cameras finally started rolling on Jurassic Park in late-August 1992, with the Hawaiian island of Kauai filling in for Isla Nubar, a real island off the coast of Costa Rica and the setting for Jurassic Park itself. However, just a couple of weeks into shooting Hurricane Iniki, the worst of its kind to beset Hawaii in the twentieth century, devastated the island chain and led to it being declared a federal disaster area. Sadly the hurricane resulted in six deaths, although the cast and crew of Jurassic Park were unharmed and became more united as a result, as Laura Dern explained:
We were stuck in a hurricane in Hawaii together and had to all stay in a motel room together for a couple of days. No food, no water. It was scary. We didn't know what was going to happen. The morning after, Steven, Jeff Goldblum and I walked through the ruins and we really felt bonded. So maybe that kind of experience created a gentler, more open relationship.
Not that Hurricane Iniki bothered Richard Attenborough all that much; the legendary actor/director slept clean through and later explained to a dumbfounded crew, I survived the Blitz!
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