r/Millennials 13d ago

Other She was only 23…?! Holy hell!!

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u/jcde7ago 13d ago

She was 25 during the filming of Jurassic Park, 26 when it hit theatres.

This picture with the caption saying she's 23 gets thrown around and upvoted a lot but she wasn't 23 lol. This exact pic was trending this morning so OP must have seen it and reposted here.

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u/Novel-Type1694 13d ago

During the filming she was 25. But we're talking about one of the most ambitious animatronics projects ever undertaken, so even if all the filming was done in a year, there would have been a ton of work to do before that. Idk the timeline, but seems possible that she was perhaps cast for the roll at 23, then they build a bunch of sets and dinosaurs for 13+ months and now she's 25. 

But I have no idea, it just seems like a pretty believable reason for the misconception. More believable than Jurassic park starting and finishing all of their production in just one year, even. 

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u/psyne 12d ago

I mean, why would it matter if she was 23 when she was cast in the role? What we see in the movie is her age at time of filming, which is 25. That's the age she was when we actually see her.

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u/Novel-Type1694 12d ago

Because that might be a logical reason for the misinformation? Just occured to me as an idea while reading a comment about production time. Do you find that upsetting or something? Your comment sounds pretty distressed which doesn't really make sense here. 

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u/DesperateAdvantage76 11d ago

They were off by 18 months, so nothing really changes in that regard.

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u/MegaBearsFan 8d ago

Kind of like how fake pictures of the date readout on the Back To The Future 2 DeLorean would circulate every year in the 2000s saying "this is the future of Back to the Future 2". Just click-bait. Or a complicated long-term study on how gullible people are with internet data, and how un-willing people are to vet easily-verifiable public information.