Sam Neill is the New Zealand actor who played palaeontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, the calm centre of Spielberg’s dinosaur chaos. In this story, Neill’s performance is part of the standard the Warner family measured themselves against: their gates, fence and details aim to honour the 1993 film he headlined alongside Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum. His wary, wide-eyed wonder remains the audience’s way into the film’s prehistoric world today.
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