Jurassic World Domain: An actor sexually abused a minor and that’s why he’s not in the movie

The name, Dodgson, Lewis Dodgson, was familiar to me when I heard he was mentioned Jurassic world domination. But see Campbell Scott playing him, I was surprised: I would have remembered his face Jurassic Parkwhich is where Dodgson first appears.

There’s a reason the actor who played Lewis Dodgson on The Steven Spielberg of 1993, it is not directed by Colin Trevorrow And it just came out in theaters.

Is that Cameron Thor, the actor who was Dodgson, the one who meets Dennis Nedry in a restaurant in Costa Rica to give him 15 dinosaur embryos in the future, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexually abusing a child under 13. .

The actor was sued in June 2014 and sentenced in August 2015, at the age of 49. after Jordyn Ladell, one of his former acting students, confessed to sexually assaulting her on multiple occasions in 2009, when he was 13.

Jordyn met Cameron in the spring of 2009, when she accompanied her mother to a meeting of alcoholics anonymous in Agoura Hills. There, he offered to give her free acting lessons at her home, located in a remote location in the Santa Monica Mountains, where, according to Jordyn, the Jurassic Park abused her.

He was sentenced to six years in prison for child sexual abuseafter being accused of sexually assaulting Ladell in a remote location in the Santa Monica Mountains of California in 2009.

But due to his good behavior, Thor was paroled two years earlier (he was supposed to stay in prison until 2021 and was released from prison in June 2019). In other words, he technically could have participated in the shoot. They obviously didn’t call him.

As published The Hollywood reporter in 2019, because Thor was a registered sex offender, he would be placed on probation by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and required to wear an ankle bracelet, with a GPS tracker to monitor him. And he was forbidden to approach within 100 yards (91 meters) of the victim’s house: his house was less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from that of Ladell, who was 24 when Thor was released.

Thor had had small roles, like Jurassic Parkin hookalso by Spielberg, in Imminent dangerwith Harrison Ford, and in Matter of honor, with Tom Cruise and on various television shows, so his acting career was short. But he was mostly known as an acting teacher. He and his wife, Alice Carter, ran the Carter-Thor Acting Studio, widely regarded as one of the best acting schools in Los Angeles.

And the Carter Thor Studio acting school was attended by students more or less known, like their names Cameron Diaz, Madonna, Helen Hunt and Courteney Cox.

In fact, Thor had auditioned for a much larger role, than if he had been cast, his absence would have been more conspicuous: mathematician Ian Malcolm, whom he ultimately played. Jeff Goldblum. Dodgson plays an important role in the novel, which is the sequel to Jurassic Park, The lost worldbut the character was excluded from the film adaptation.

What was Lewis Dodgson doing Jurassic Park

What’s better than appealing to the Jurassic Park fandom, where they know each character’s authorized and unlicensed bio by heart.

In Jurassic ParkBiosyn was looking to keep up with the competition through its head of product development, Dr. Lewis Dodgson. The Doctor has already arrived with a checkered history and a bad reputation, including an incident in which he introduced a modified form of the rabies virus into Chilean farmers without their consent.

In the film, Biosyn sent Dr. Lewis Dodgson to meet Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight, well-known face: accompanied Michael Douglas in Sharon Stone’s interrogation in low instincts), a computer programmer, to give him where to transport the dinosaur embryos. He paid Nedry $ 750,000 upfront, and then $ 50,000 for each of the 15 embryos.

The scene remembers: he meets Nedry, his secret contact in Jurassic Park, in an open-air Costa Rican restaurant. When Dodgson arrives in the cab, he tries not to be noticed by wearing a hat and sunglasses. Nedry made fun of him.

He gives Nedry a spray can of shaving cream, but with a double bottom, to store the embryos. There they could be stored in the refrigerator for thirty-six hours. And he has to pay the bill for Nedry’s restaurant.

But, as you may recall, Biosyn never received the embryos: Dennis Nedry was closing the park on a rainy night, and on his way out he ran into a Dilophosaurus, just as he was on his way to deliver the embryos to a Biosyn accomplice. on the beach. Dilophosaurus takes control of Nedry and the container containing the embryos is buried in the mud.

Now, 29 years later and five films later, in Jurassic world domination Dr. Lewis Dodgson has climbed Biosyn, is now Executive Director, and is once again the main antagonist of the trio they already made up Jurassic Park Ian, Ellie and Alan.

But obviously it doesn’t have the face of the attacker, but of Campbell Scott, the actor of House of cardswho was Richard Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Electro’s Revengeand the one who lived a romantic romance with Julia Roberts in All for love.