The time Jurassic Park had a subplot of Jeff Goldblum and a velociraptor falling in love

Doctor Ian Malcolm closed his eyes as he heard the sound of velociraptor claws against the door.

His leg in pain, he slowly hobbled across the room.

“You can’t be here,” he hissed, hoping that none of the others could hear him.

The clawing at the door increased in intensity.

“I know, I know. I do too,” said the chaotician, “but if they catch you here-“

The door flies open. Dr Malcolm and the velociraptor lock eyes. There is a brief pause, heightened by a clear sexual tension.

The pair fall into a passionate embrace.

“I thought the love story was really the dramatic heart of the film,” said Jeff Goldblum in a 1997 Wogan interview.

“You’ve got this exciting special effects roller-coaster bonanza, but it was that love-affair between Ian Malcolm and the velociraptor that gave the whole story a heart and humanity.

“I was really disappointed when they cut it.”

The romantic subplot begins when Dr Malcolm is injured during the Tyrannosaurus Rex attack.

In the original script he is dragged away, unconscious, by a velociraptor, but rather than eat the hapless scientist, the dinosaur tenderly nurses him back to health during which time the pair form a romantic bond.

“It was never sexual,” said Goldblum.

“I mean, ultimately, this was a family film, and we didn’t want to get into an explicit sex scene between man and velociraptor, but there was definitely a romantic and erotic tension in the air at all times.”

The romantic subplot was to be resolved with Dr Malcolm sacrificing himself in the final Tyrannosaurus Rex attack to allow his velociraptor to escape.

“I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with the final film,” continued Goldblum.

“It’s a classic, it really is.

“I’m just saying, it the love-story is left in, it becomes the sort of film the Academy takes notice of.”

Although the story was ultimately cut, the romantic attraction between man and velociraptor was explored in the recent Jurassic World films and which Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady and Blue have a clear mutual sexual attraction which, it is assumed, will be resolved in the final film of the trilogy.