Vanessa Lee Chester

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q1321199: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Harriet the Spy (1996); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997); A Little Princess.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Godzilla (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (intent) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending.
    “I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park (1993): 1 line

  1. lineage (sequel-comparison) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original.
    “This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

King Kong (2005): 1 line

  1. theme (plot trope) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move.
    “We've all seen King Kong.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Lost World (1912): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), which they acted in: The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read). Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs.
    “the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (3) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

theme (1)

  1. theme (disliked child character): Vanessa Lee Chester → Jake Lloyd. Both suffered audience backlash over their characters, though Lloyd had a double whammy of bad character and performance.
    “Jake Lloyd had a double whammy where it's like this character sucks and the kid playing it sucks, you know?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (childhood favorite): Harriet the Spy → Vanessa Lee Chester. A host adored Vanessa Lee Chester as a child actor in Harriet the Spy and A Little Princess and still thinks the former is well directed.
    “That film is still very well directed.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:23:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.