Jeff Goldblum, everyone’s favourite piano-tinkling dream daddy and star of Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dino-smashin’ classic, Jurassic Park, has taken some time out to appreciate the effort London went to to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary.
A 25-foot, 330-pound statue of the actor lying open-shirted as the iconic Dr. Ian Malcolm appeared next to Tower Bridge over the summer, and Goldblum wants us to know – as if there was ever any doubt – that he was just delighted with it.
“It was lovely, I liked that whole statue,” he told the Associated Press (via comicbook). “I don’t know what it looked like in the flesh, or in the concrete, I didn’t see it. I saw pictures of it.”
Goldblum, for his part, had no idea that the statue was going to be A Thing, and he was as surprised as anybody to see it materialise.
“On the day that it came out, I had no prior, not that they would have, if anybody needed it, tell me about it,” he noted. “Somebody said, ‘Look what…’ and I said, ‘What the devil?’ How ’bout that?”
Despite the statue only improving the lives of everyone in its vicinity for just a few short weeks with its presence, Goldblum thinks it might belong in a museum, and it’s quite hard to disagree with the man.
“I think they took it down, but isn’t it making a tour, of some kind? Like the treasures of the tomb of King Tutankhamun? I hope so. I hope everybody gets the chance to see it at one point or another.”
The actor returned to play the character of Dr. Ian Malcolm in this summer’s smash hit sequel, Fallen Kingdom, and he hasn’t ruled out a future appearance in the franchise.
Personally, we’d like to see a giant statue of Goldblum crop up every year in the UK, perhaps along with a lovely festival of his greatest films at a nearby cinema?
Meanwhile, the Goldblumaissance continues in Cardiff, as Simon Reah recently broadcast the news on Twitter that a local charity shop had replaced every photo with one of the MCU’s Grandmaster…