{"id":703369,"date":"2026-07-21T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:53:11","slug":"how-sam-neills-jurassic-park-performance-inspired-a-generation-of-paleontologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/703369\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sam Neill\u2019s Jurassic Park performance inspired a generation of paleontologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">\u201cSam Neill\u2019s performance shaped the trajectory of my life,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jake-Kotevski\" class=\"underline-brand-hover visited:text-foreground-secondary hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Kotevski<\/a>, a palaeontologist at Monash University in Melbourne. \u201cFor as long as I could remember, I wanted to be a palaeontologist, to be Dr Alan Grant. But also to share his values \u2013 quiet intelligence, a sense of wonder, a cool head and a protective father (or father figure). Jurassic Park has been with me forever, through good times and bad. There would be no Dr Kotevski without Dr Grant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSam Neill\u2019s performance shaped the trajectory of my life,\u201d says Jake Kotevski, a palaeontologist at Monash University in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-703369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}