Jurassic World: Chaos TheoryActress 'Excited' to See Her Character Highlight Disability Representation

Mar. 15, 2025

Kiersten Kelly in Jurrasic World: Chaos Theory Season 2.Photo:gregory wallace photography; Courtesy Netflix

gregory wallace photography; Courtesy Netflix

Jurassic World: Chaos Theoryis back for season 2 — and so is Brooklynn!

Brooklynn survives but has her arm amputated as a result, thus reintroducing her as the first character in theJurassicuniverse to have a limb difference.

Lee says that people with disabilities make up “as many as a quarter of the general population” — “and we have a lot to offer.”

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Season 2.Courtesy Netflix

Courtesy Netflix

“Historically we’ve been limited in terms of opportunity," he says. “And so a show like this is truly breaking barriers and giving us opportunities that have been seldom forthcoming in the past.”

Kreamer adds: “When we made the decision to tell a story featuring Brooklyn, one of our lead characters acquiring a limb difference, we wanted to tell that story authentically.”

Kelly echoes that.

“I think being a part of the show and having authentic representation within the show as well just showcases how much your projects and society can benefit from equal opportunity and including people with disabilities,” she says.

Peter Lee and Scott Kreamer — Jurassic World: Chaos Theory Season 2.Courtesy Netflix

The changes Kelly’s character faces ties into the upcoming storyline, too.

“It raises the stakes,” Kreamer says. “It explains why people would’ve thought she was dead. And it gives us an opportunity to give visibility and representation to a vastly underrepresented community. So that’s kind of how it came about.”

“I love Brooklynn so much” because “her disability doesn’t define her,” Kelly tells PEOPLE. “And it’s not her entire story. She is a very complex person and there’s a lot of depth, and she’s becoming an adult and she’s living on this island, and she’s trying to navigate who she wants to be.”

“And I think that’s amazing, especially in a series regular, because you don’t see disability representation,” she continues.

An official synopsis states that the second season picks up “six years after the events atCamp Cretaceous” and sees the main characters “reunited” but “on the run and catapulted into a global adventure to unravel a conspiracy that threatens dinosaur and humankind alike and finally learn the truth about what happened to one of their own.”

In a clip for season 2 ofJurassic World: Chaos Theory, fans see Brooklynn camping out in an uninhabited apartment building which sits across from who she suspects to be a dinosaur broker responsible for her near-fatal season 1 attack.

After learning the broker’s daily routine, Brooklynn plans to break in while the broker is away to find out who is responsible for the ambush and why.

The rest of the kids end up in Senegal, Africa, working together to uncover the truth behind Brooklyn’s disappearance — which eventually leads them to even greater mysteries.

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And dinosaurs aren’t the only dangers in Senegal: The gang soon discovers that lions, hippos and more lurk in that jungle’s shadows.

“The whole franchise is built on wonder, terror, humor and action," Kreamer, the showrunner, tells PEOPLE. “There’s so many of those things. And we try to honor all of that. We are a little part of this giant franchise, which also means so much to so many people.”

Season 2 ofJurassic World: Chaos Theoryis streaming now on Netflix.

source: people.com