Once again a major tentpole Hollywood release has toyed with having a LGBT major character, but then backed out of explicitly mentioning by leaving it on the cutting room floor. Following in the footsteps of the likes of Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, Vice Admiral Holdo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and (allegedly) Dumbledore in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, is Dr. Zia Rodriguez in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
The actress behind the paleo-veterinarian character, Daniella Pineda, has revealed that they filmed a scene where Zia reveals she’s a lesbian, or at least somewhere on the LGBT spectrum. Talking to Yahoo!, Pineda says, “I look at Chris and I’m like: ‘Yeah, square jaw, good bone structure, tall, muscles. I don’t date men, but if I did, it would be you. It would gross me out, but I’d do it.’ I love that I’m looking at Chris Pratt, the hottest guy in the world, and I’m like, ‘It would gross me out, but I guess I would do it!’ It was also cool, because it was a little insight into my character. But they cut it.”
The scene was cut, according to the character, because the original cut of the movie was two hours and 40 minutes long. As a result this character moment was removed during the process of getting it down to a more manageable 127 minutes.
This excuse has been used over and over again in Hollywood though, as it’s wearing a little thing. It’s probably true that in the filmmaker and studio’s minds, timing is the reason these scenes end up getting was removed, but that’s because the LGBT sides of characters in huge movies are always written as so tangential, which makes them so easy to remove. In nearly every case where one of these films has flirted with explicitly saying they’ve got a gay character, it’s been mentioned or hinted at in a single scene. Although a couple of these scenes have made it to the screen – such as the ‘gay moment’ in Beauty and the Beast – most have ended up on the cutting room floor simply because they were written in a way that almost by design made it superfluous and at risk of seeming tokenistic.
Until screenwriters realise that a LGBT character’s sexuality can be woven into the movie in the same way it is for most straight people (who tend to flirt and mention their attraction to people of the opposite sex more than once in an entire movie), it’s likely we’ll keep hearing about how a massive movie filmed a gay scene but it ended up on the cutting room floor.
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I feel that after watching this first trailer for the follow-up to the mega-hit Jurassic World, you may be asking yourself, ‘WTF have I just seen?’ It’s kind of like an explosion of over-the-top-ness. No longer just content with killer dinos, they’ve gone and thrown in an exploding volcano!
It’s very short, but the first footage from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has arrived online, which shows as Chris Pratt back as Owen Grady, petting a very cute baby raptor. I suppose it’s a good thing Owen still has a good relationship with at least some of the dinos after the dramatic events of Jurassic World!
Ever since it was announced, we’ve known that Jurassic World 2 probably wouldn’t reach cinemas with that name. Now we know what it will be – with shooting coming to an end, its been revealed the film will be known as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
When Jurassic World rebooted the Jurassic Park franchise, the only original character we saw was Richard Attenborough’s John Hammond, and even then only in statue form. However, for the follow-up, Ian Malcolm will be back and once more in the form of Jeff Goldblum, according to 
While it was clear before Jurassic World was released, that plenty of people were keen for another Jurassic Park movie, but few people expected it to be so successful it would gross $1.6 billion, and become the third highest grossing movie ever worldwide (although it’s since been overtaken by The Force Awakens). It also ensured that another movie would be made, and now shooting on Jurassic World 2 is underway.
It looks like the follow-up to the mega-hit Jurassic World is getting a bit of a British infusion, as Variety reports that Toby Jones and Rafe Spall are in talks to join the movie. While there have been no details about the plot of the movie, as they are both from the UK, it’s difficult not to speculate whether they will be relative of Jurassic Park’s founder, John Hammond, originally played by the late Richard Attenborough.