Believe it or not, Jurassic Park was released 30 years ago this weekend!
The movie's casting director had always considered Jeff Goldblum the perfect choice for the role of the erratic mathematician, but one other up-and-coming Hollywood star did almost get the part: Jim Carrey. This would've been before 1994, the year Carrey took over the cinema-going world with his hat-trick of Ace Venture Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb & Dumber.
Connery has since become infamous for turning down roles in sci-fi/fantasy movies that he claimed he didn't understand, having also rejected the offers for Morpheus in The Matrix, Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Rick Deckard in Blade Runner and Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.Fresh from the success of The Addams Family, Christina Ricci auditioned for the role computer nerd Lex.
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