Steven Spielberg has given some of the iconic classic hits that continue to remain crystal clear in our minds. From his theatrical debut in the 1974 film, The Sugarland Express, he gained prominence with Jaws. In the next decade, he kept on releasing blockbusters in Hollywood thus gaining quite an influence in the modern Hollywood era.
Acting in Jurassic Park Was More Difficult Than What We Saw Onscreen!
The 1993 film, Jurassic Park was a joint effort of directors, cast, and crew who put in their great efforts to pull off the masterpiece that we know today. Back in 2013’s Entertainment Weekly oral history of Jurassic Park, Actor Joseph Mazzello, who played the role of young Tim Murphy, throw light on working with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery to face off life-sized dinosaurs.
He opened up about having difficulty working on the film set especially when he had to face off creatures that were not even existent in real life.
“For a long time, I was upset, because I didn’t get to see any [dinosaurs]. We were running around in Hawaii with the gallimimus that were supposed to be running past us that were just computer animated.”
He recalled filming a scene when a gigantic T. rex mutilated another creature.
“And I remember one scene where the T. rex comes out of the woods, snatches one up, and eats it. What I got to look at was this wooden stick with a dinosaur head drawn at the top of it that I think I, as a 9-year-old, could have drawn and a couple of guys moving it around.”
Things were definitely weird since the dinosaurs were nowhere to be seen in the production, it didn’t stop film director, Steven Spielberg to give up. Rather, he chose an interesting way that eventually inspired the actors to keep up with the filming.
Steven Spielberg’s Strategy to Motivate Jurassic Park Actors
The actor recalled that the film director chose to embarrass himself to motivate actors from getting frustrated during the production process. The Social Network actor revealed that the Indiana Jones director used to instruct them about the dinosaur’s part for them to easily visualize the sequence.
“Steven screaming into a megaphone, ‘Okay, now he’s eating him, Joe. He’s eating him now. You’re looking at him. He’s eating him.’ I was a little upset. I was like ‘Yo, when are we getting some dinosaurs. I keep hearing this movie’s about dinosaurs.’”
He even went out of his way to roar like a dinosaur to help them imagine which made things hard for actors to even put up with it.
“Steven was holding a bullhorn and roaring in a not very convincing way. It’s difficult enough acting to a tennis ball, but it’s even harder when you’re trying not to laugh.”
As to why the acting part was hard after Spielberg’s strategy, it was just funny enough to let them focus on their acting. But eventually, they pulled it all off with the movie grossing over $1 billion worldwide.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
