DeWanda Wise Gives Vanessa Lee Chester, The Young Black actress In ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park,’ Her Flowers

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By Brande Victorian ·Updated June 9, 2022

DeWanda Wise is being heralded as the first Black woman featured in the Jurassic franchise for her role as Kayla Watts in Jurassic World Dominion, in theaters today. But the actress is quick to remind media that before Watts there was Vanessa Lee Chester, the then-13-year-old child star who played Kelly Malcolm in Steven Spielberg‘s 1997 action flick The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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