On the big screen, he fought dinosaurs. In real life, he is battling an illness. In his memoir, which will be published this Tuesday, March 21, actor Sam Neill reveals that he is being treated for stage 3 blood cancer. If he indicates that he is in remission, the one who became famous for his role in the saga Jurassic Park will have to continue treatment until the end of his days.
Over 50 years of career
“The thing is, I’m sick. Maybe I’m dying. I need to speed up.” It is with this sentence that Sam Neill announces the bad news from the first chapter of his book. Have I ever told you this?. Written during chemo, we’ll find out how 2022 is “its share of dark moments.” The actor says his cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was diagnosed in 2022. “But these dark times bring out the light”adds the British New Zealander, saying to himself “Just happy to be alive.”
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The life he spent in front of the cameras. His long career began in the 1970s, but it wasn’t until 1993 that he achieved rising prominence. He then interprets paleontologist Alan Grant in the famous Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg. He resumes the role in 2022, in the last part of the saga. By the way, in the first two seasons of the popular series, the actor played Inspector Chester Campbell. Peaky Blinders. Winemaker in New Zealand in his spare time, cancer doesn’t stop him. At 75, the actor is preparing for a new role in the TV adaptation of the novel. Apples never fall.
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