Jurassic Park fans enjoyed a blast from the past last week hen an obscure behind-the-scenes photo surfaced on Reddit. The picture showed Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello posing with the tyrannosaurus rex’s prop foot, away from all the rest of the set and the chaotic scenes where it was featured. The two child stars wore genuine smiles, and commenters wondered if they had as much fun making the film as the audience has had watching it over the years.
The picture drives home the scale of the set and the amount of dedicated work going on there, from the perspective of two kids who were caught up in it all.As you can see below, the T-rex foot seems to have been staged on a painter’s drop cloth when Richards and Mazzello decied to ake a photo with it. Both of them could hide behind the dinosaur’s ankle comfortably, and it was rendered in such extreme detail that it the viewer can hardly appreciate in its brief time on screen.
Commenters shared other photos of this prop, and others like it, as well as trivia about the filming process and the artists who made it all happen.Never knew this photo existed. byu/Najimiooo7 inJurassicParkMany remarked that they had never seen this particular photo, though none could dig up a specific source for it.
However, Jurassic Park had a staggering amount of behind-the-scenes content, especially for its time, before DVD extras made these profitable additions. That makes sense, since Jurassic Park was a groundbreaking production in so many w.
