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One of the numerous joys included in the “Jurassic Park” is waiting for the arrogant, greedy and unpleasant computer programmer Dennis Nedry to obtain his fair desserts. Although Steven Spielberg’s film version of Michael Crichton’s novel source is much friendlier with his human characters than the book, Spielberg and screenmant David Koepp reserve his most unpleasant moments for the most hateful characters in the film, and Nedry’s death in The Hand (Well ,, Well ,, Well ,, Well, Well ,, Well ,, mouth) of a particularly persistent dilophosourus is the most delicious instance of the poetic justice of the film.
However, it may have been too good. The actor who portrayed Nedry, the adorable in real life Wayne Knight, found himself dealing with some unexpected repercussions as a result of filming the final moments of his character. Nedry’s disappearance had an involuntary effect on the fourth season of “Seinfeld”, the very popular and successful situation comedy in which Knight portrayed Newman, the neighboring arch-nemesis of Jerry Seinfeld. The show was in production while “Jurassic Park” was shooting, so Knight not only had to pull double service, but also had to deal with a concert that bleed in the other. If it had not been due to the efforts of the hair and makeup team “Seinfeld”, this situation almost turned out that Newman appeared with an unpleasant spot on the face due to the Dennis Nedry Dilophosourus meeting, something that even the situation comedy every time more extravagant would have had some problems finding a justification for.
Knight low with a purple face box
In “Jurassic Park”, Nedry tries to escape from Isla Nublar with a can of Barbasol full of dinosaur embryos, apparently to sell them to a rival corporation. Returned by a tropical storm and the deactivation of the security systems of the Jurassic Park (the best to allow it to go unnoticed), Nedry is trapped inside the Dilophosourus habitat, at which time one of the happy but dead animals. According to his hunting style, the Dilofosaur spits the poison directly on Nedry’s face, a substance that incapacitates man enough for the tiny predator attack without obstacles.
When shooting this moment on the set, Knight had to prepare to receive a shot in the face with a purple fraud, which was actually a lot of blacks dyed of Ky’s jelly that was created by the Special Effects Department. As he recalled during an interview about “Jurassic Park” for ABC News (through Syfy wire), Knight discovered that although the moment only took two to obtain, however, he left his mark on his body:
“One night, I filmed a ‘Seinfeld’ (episode) and returned as we filmed ‘Jurassic’, and I said (for the effects man in ‘Jurassic’), ‘You know when you did the thing, with the stem? Van,’ Yes’.
Fortunately, the “Seinfeld” makeup team was able to help, instead of Knight needed to go to the program’s writers to try to find a strange excuse for Newman’s new appearance:
“So there was a makeup problem that returned to television, we had to cover the place.”
He simply shows him that most facial imperfections, whether they are a wart, a grain pimp or a dinosaur saliva, can be covered if you have the right products!
A story with a very ‘Seinfeld’ turn
Fortunately, everything went well for Knight and Newman, but it is not as if Knight found the filming of Nedry’s disappearance, all so comfortable to begin with. Dyeñida Ky Jelly was shot in Knight’s face by a man who wielded an air rifle full of the Goop, the same man who told Knight “yes, he will.” As Knight tells, the moment when he only took two shots to shoot, in large part because this man put the fear of numerous shots in Knight, telling him just before filming: “Do not blink or I will have to do it again.”
Knight found it difficult to “return to the camera and without blinking, (receive a shot) between the eyes with this gun”, but managed to work, despite the feeling of disdain he was receiving from man with the rifle. Recently, when Knight He appeared in the podcast of Jason Alexander “really? Knight not only told the story of his terrible experience, but also provided A very seinfeldian post-descript:
“But that guy now lives on the other side of the street. And he has a better house than me!”
Whether or not, there is some kind of karmic poetry so that Knight has to live next to one of his nemas. Hey, it could be worse: at least you don’t have to live next to a dilofosaur.
