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Thursday 9 June 2022
Jeff Goldblum takes one more bite out of ‘Jurassic World’

By JAKE COYLE Trevorrow, who has co-
AP Film Writer written the trilogy and di-
NEW YORK (AP) — There rected the first and third
is only one person who, in installments, first worked
the middle of a massive with Goldblum on a "Juras-
dystopic dinosaur movie, sic World" Super Bowl ad
can utter a line like "That's for Jeep. Goldblum wasn't
bananas" with just the right what he expected.
timing and inflection. "You think that he's purely
For almost three decades, improvisational and may-
off and on, Jeff Goldblum be even a loose canon,"
has played Dr. Ian Mal- says Trevorrow. "But on this
colm with particular Gold- movie, I'd just see him walk-
blumian panache. As the ing out on the garden at
stylish chaos theorist of the the hotel we were staying
"Jurassic Park" and "Juras- in going over his lines again
sic World" films, Goldblum is and again and coming in
voice of reason and com- and delivering a very pre-
edy relief in one, an auger cise, considered perfor-
of nature's unpredictability mance." Production on "Ju-
who can't help marveling rassic World: Dominion" was
at seeing his theories in ac- halted in 2020 due to the
tion, even if that poses im- pandemic. When shooting
mediate danger to himself. restarted, the studio rented
It's one of the 69-year-old out a hotel in England near
actor's best-known charac- Pinewood Studios for cast
ters. Yet in even big movies and crew. Goldblum would
like "Jurassic Park" and "In- sometimes play the piano
dependence Day," Gold- there with his castmates
blum has such a singular and Trevorrow — "musi-
manner and much-imitat- cales and hootenanny's of
ed tempo that he's never one kind or another," Gold-
been particularly defined blum says. Dern posted
by those roles. It's more that one video of her, Neill and
Goldblum, in putting his Jeff Goldblum poses for a portrait to promote the film "Jurassic World Dominion" at the Universal Goldblum singing the Bea-
own idiosyncratic spin on Studios Lot in Los Angeles on on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. tles' "Blackbird."
them, marks the charac- Associated Press "He's a beautiful man," says
ters, rather than the other Trevorrow. "We would have
way around. Life finds a about. But let's utter the about ocean environmen- dence and perpetual state really thoughtful conversa-
way in "Jurassic Park," and word 'entropy' and 'sys- tal health, fundraising for of curiosity. tions about his perspective
so does Goldblum. tems' and how things break Oceana, the song "Moon "At the beginning of the on where we're at. There
In Colin Trevorrow's "Ju- down," Goldblum says, River" (which Goldblum, day, I remind myself: free was a depth to it all, hon-
rassic World: Dominion, " speaking from London. "Be- an accomplished pianist, association, stream of con- estly, when it comes to the
which opens in theaters fore the butterfly comes says his band might soon sciousness, perceptual experience of making the
Thursday, Goldblum — out of the chrysalis, the cat- record), Carly Simon's "Let readiness and then open- film and going through
along with original cast erpillar has some convul- the River Run," the movie ness," says Goldblum. "This pandemic together."For
members Laura Dern and sions, chaotic convulsions. "Working Girl," Mark Har- whole business of acting the "Jurassic World: Domin-
Sam Neill — returns to close But it's not death, necessar- ris' Mike Nichols biography and music seems to be, if ion" cast and filmmakers,
out the franchise's second ily. It's the onset of transfor- and a white-water rafting nothing else, an invitation making a movie about na-
trilogy of films in a sprawling mation." trip on the Kern River. toward opening up. Open- ture's resistance to human-
adventure set in a near fu- Satisfied that he's perhaps "Water is life, isn't it?" says ing yourself up in both di- kind's meddling during the
ture where dinosaurs have arrived at a kernel of truth, Goldblum. "If they ever rections. Not only to what's pandemic took on real-
spread across the world, as Goldblum concludes, "Hey, wanted to drop the Gold- around you in reception world resonance. As in the
has ecological imbalance what about that?" blum and just go with River but then in your giving movie, the world might be
and a plague of giant lo- Chaos and harmony fea- Joe, that sounds evocative back, reacting and offer- ending but Goldblum is still
custs. ture prominently in most to me, that sounds like a ing something." there keeping the spirits up.
For Goldblum, the son of a conversations with Gold- good character. Or Charlie After co-starring in "Jurassic "What else can we do?"
doctor and host of the Dis- blum, an ever-riffing, cos- Ocean. I like both of those. Park" and its 1997 sequel, says Goldblum. "Being a
ney+ series "The World Ac- mically attuned raconteur. Nothing wrong with Gold- "The Lost World," Goldblum Sandy Meisner devotee, I'm
cording to Jeff Goldblum," He tends to speak as if blum, but if they want to returned to Ian Malcolm in a romantic about the en-
the subjects and themes narrating his brain's inner- change it, fine with me." 2018's "Jurassic World: Fall- semble credo and synergy
of the movie dovetail with workings in real time, arriv- Either through experience en Kingdom" during which and, like this movie depicts,
some of his own curiosities ing now and then at ideas (Goldblum's early films in- his character testifies to what educated, smart and
and interests in how we worth pausing to savor and cluded two with the impro- the U.S. Congress. Malcolm deeply caring people can
might, he says, "upgrade existential epiphanies that visational Robert Altman, "a recommends letting the ex- do — even a few of them
our stewardship of the plan- delight him. dipsy doodle of an artist," ploding volcano determine — together at a crucial mo-
et." What does Goldblum, One question, for example, he says) or practice (Gold- the fate of the dinosaurs on ment. They can even some-
the movies' resident chao- about whether his sons' blum credits acting teach- Isla Nublar. Goldblum rel- times defeat the forces of
tician, think of our increas- names — River Joe and er Sandy Meisner with in- ished it. ignorance, corruption and
ingly tumultuous times? Charlie Ocean — suggest stilling in him "a continuity "I was full of juice," he says. greed, and keep the homo
"I don't know anything some ecological bent of digging"), Goldblum has "I was in this froth of fun, sapiens ball moving along
about what I'm talking sends Goldblum on a jag arrived at his unique ca- which I sometimes get in." a little more. Maybe."q