20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jurassic Park

16. Laura Dern Cried For Real 

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Laura Dern's performance is often picked out as one of the highlights of the entire movie, but her experience of Jurassic Park was also a lot more real than it might have looked.

Firstly, in the scene in which Ellie is attacked by the raptor in the maintenance corridor, the tears streaming down her face were not originally part of the script. She was, in fact, crying for real as the way the shot had been constructed genuinely terrified her.

Slightly more subtly though, her character flirting with Ian Malcolm also had its roots planted in reality, as she began a relationship with Jeff Goldblum after the film as a result of their time together on-set.

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