Jeff Goldblum has revealed how an iconic Jurassic Park moment featuring his alter ego Dr. Ian Malcolm changed "at the eleventh hour."
The actor played mathematician Malcolm in the hugely-successful 1993 movie opposite the likes of Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Richard Attenborough.
Speaking in a new interview, the 71-year-old explained how director Steven Spielberg was "so generous" when it came to taking on ideas.
At the beginning of his 18-minute long chat with Vanity Fair, Goldblum watched back a clip from Jurassic Park, followed by snippets of Independence Day, The Fly, Kaos, The Big Chill and the upcoming Wicked adaptation.
For the former, he was shown the blockbuster scene which saw Donald Gennaro (played by Martin Ferrero) run from a tyrannosaurus before eventually being swallowed up while sitting on the toilet.
Unlike in Michael Crichton's 1990 novel of the same name of which the film is based, Goldblum's character instead of attempting to flee himself, grabs a flare to distract the T-Rex away from youngsters Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello).
Discussing how this change came about, Goldblum remembered: "Mr Spielberg and I were talking, he was so generous.
"I think it came up in discussion where we said, 'Hey, what if instead of being repetitive with the lawyer—not that these guys aren't scary, the dinosaurs aren't scary—but maybe my character is a little bit, has a little bit of gumption and self-sacrificing heroism in him, and goes, gets that flare, lights it, and purposely distracts the dinosaur.'"
He continued: "We all thought that was a good idea. That changed a little bit at the eleventh hour."
Goldblum went on to praise Spielberg further, sharing how the production was a "couple of weeks or several days under schedule," allowing time for tweaks.
Speaking about his colleague, he added: "That guy is not only brilliant and inspiring and exciting, because he knows everything about what he needs to get.
"But also in a creative surge conspicuously... he's prepared so much that he's free to come up with new ideas."
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Jurassic Park went on to win three Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.
Sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park followed four years later, as well as Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
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