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21st March 2023
12:12pm GMT

Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern and Sam Neill in a scene from the film 'Jurassic Park', 1993. (Photo by Universal/Getty Images)[/caption]
“And I’m used to working. I love working. I love going to work. I love being with people every day and enjoying human company and friendship and all these things. And suddenly I was deprived of that.”So, he started writing, even though he never had any intention to write a book, “but as I went on and kept writing, I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow … that will entertain me.’ And so it was a lifesaver really because I couldn’t have gone through that with nothing to do, you know.” The Guardian said, in Neill’s book, he reveals himself to be a great storyteller and reward readers with stories from his early years in Ireland to growing up in New Zealand, with many amusing film set anecdotes in between. He said his book is not a cancer memoir, that rather his illness forms a “spiral thread” throughout the narrative. Neill, whose acting career began in the 1970s and is comprised of over 150 roles from My Brilliant Career to The Piano to Jurassic Park to Peaky Blinders, is currently in preparation to start filming on the television adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel Apples Never Fall, being filmed in Australia and co-starring Annette Bening. Read the Guardian’s full interview with Sam Neill here. Related links:
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