Sam Neill

Sam Neill has revealed he is now in 'tip top health' and is heading back to work next week, months on from being diagnosed with stage three cancer.

And I’m alive and kicking and I'm going to work," he said, "I'm very happy to be going back to work. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/18/sam-neill-jurassic-park-actor-reveals-he-is-being-treated-for-stage-three-blood-cancer) recently: "I never had any intention to write a book. "Those dark moments throw the light into sharp relief, you know, and have made me grateful for every day and immensely grateful for all my friends. I may have to speed this up." In his book, he opened it with: "The thing is, I’m crook. "So I started writing.

The actor, 75, shared the surprise news of his diagnosis in his new memoir, which was published last week, and has since confirmed he's returning to work ...

He went on to suggest that he's through the worst of things as he continued: 'I am alive and well and I have been in remission for eight months, which feels really good. And suddenly I was deprived of that. I love being with people every day and enjoying human company and friendship and all these things. Update: In the wake of his cancer news hitting the headlines, Sam took to Instagram on Saturday to give a health update , telling his followers that he's in remission So after a few months I thought there could be a book in this.' Sam Neill has revealed he's been in remission for eight months after undergoing chemotherapy for stage-three blood cancer

The media got itself into a twist this week as (old) news that your favorite friend to pigs Sam Neill had dealt with a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma hit ...

[friend to pigs ](https://twitter.com/TwoPaddocks/status/1144588889094414336)Sam Neill had dealt with a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma hit the airwaves. CANCER!” talk, and focus instead on his new book of essays, [Did I Ever Tell You This?,](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/457392/did-i-ever-tell-you-this-by-neill-sam/9780241648988) which comes out on March 23 from Penguin Books. FWIW, Neill’s Jurassic Park costar Laura Dern herself has blurbed the book!

Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill joined Lorraine Kelly as a guest on her ITV show on Tuesday, with his age causing quite a stir.

If you can't see the form below, click We cannot believe that he is 75; he looks brilliant!" Lorraine quipped: "We had to look it up five times! He is, believe it or not....he's 75-years-old!" Quizzing Sam on his "extraordinary life," Lorraine asked Sam is his cancer diagnosis was the 'catalyst; for his autobiography, as he told her: "I had to go for chemotherapy and I had nothing to do basically so I thought why not start writing it? The New Zealand born star joined Lorraine via video call from Australia's Gold Coast.

Sam Neill's memoir delves into cancer, Jurassic Park – and some painful celebrity tales ... Unlike most celebrity memoirs, there is real urgency in the endeavour ...

Disaster.” Neill also terms the depressive Robin Williams “the loneliest man on a lonely planet”, and reveals that Harvey Keitel, his co-star in The Piano, “was truculent and hostile for the whole film.” He canters through his life and work, from birth in Northern Ireland and upbringing in New Zealand to Hollywood fame, all peppered with self-deprecation: he calls himself lazy, thinks his exes consider him a “dickhead”, and notes his lack of formal acting training. In keeping with his earthy tone throughout, he shares that his treatment once gave him “the Worst Constipation in the History of Mankind”. On losing his hair to chemotherapy, Neill quips: “I look like a boiled egg that’s been sitting around in the pot long after the water has dried up.” Losing his beard was another shock: he hadn’t seen his own face for 15 years. “Suddenly, for the first time in my life, I have time to burn, and time to think. “The subtitle for this book might be ‘Notes from a Dying Man’.” But he turns to an experimental drug – which, thankfully, has worked.

Sam Neill has called for more women in politics and believes the Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if a woman was in charge.

[Jurassic Park’s Sam Neill has ‘never felt better’ months on from blood cancer remission](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/20/jurassic-parks-sam-neill-says-he-never-felt-better-after-blood-cancer-remission-18469307/?ico=more_text_links) [the Ukraine problem](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/17/putin-issued-with-international-arrest-warrant-over-war-crimes-in-ukraine-18462169/) if we had a woman running Russia.’ [Sam Neill mortified as he’s shown failed James Bond audition tape with him flirting 007-style](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/21/sam-neill-mortified-as-hes-shown-failed-james-bond-audition-on-live-tv-18475027/?ico=more_text_links) [ she would be resigning](https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/new-zealands-pm-jacinda-ardern-announces-she-will-resign-next-month-18127584/). [Jurassic Park](https://metro.co.uk/tag/jurassic-park/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P2_LNK1) star was being interviewed by Lorraine Kelly ahead of the release of his new memoir, which [ touches on his life, career ](https://metro.co.uk/2023/03/21/sam-neill-mortified-as-hes-shown-failed-james-bond-audition-on-live-tv-18475027/)and cancer diagnosis. [politics](https://metro.co.uk/tag/politics/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P1_LNK1) and believes the Russian invasion of [Ukraine](https://metro.co.uk/tag/ukraine/?ico=auto_link_entertainment_P1_LNK2) would not have happened if a woman was in charge.

He said: "I'm absolutely fine Lorraine. I got a cancer scare about a year ago but I've been in remission for eight months now. I'm in tip top health and I'm ...

He added: "I sort of approached the year as really being a bit of an adventure...(as) I didn't know what was (going to) happen. However, Neill has said it is not a cancer book but a collection of stories about his life. The 75-year-old New Zealand actor is best known for his role as palaeontologist Alan Grant in the science-fiction film series Jurassic Park. During the show, Lorraine admitted she couldn't believe Neill was aged 75. I'm in tip top health and I'm going back to work next week." He said: "I'm absolutely fine Lorraine.

Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has recently updated about his health after his diagnosis for stage-three blood cancer.Speaking on Tuesday's Lorraine, ...

“I'm very happy to be going back to work. I'm doing a thing called 'Apples Never Fall' with Annette Bening, and a really wonderful cast. The actor mentioned, “I had to go into chemotherapy, I had nothing to do so I thought why not start writing.

The 75-year-old actor is still “mourning the loss” of Jacinda Ardern - who stepped down as Prime Minister in January after almost six years in office - and ...

But it’s not a cancer book, it’s about life and love and all the people I love. I continue to be surprised - I still get offered work.” I had to go into chemotherapy and I had nothing to do so writing gave me something to think about. Suddenly, I couldn’t go to work. I think that women are better at most things actually, with the possible exception of weightlifting. “So I’d go to my study and write about what I felt that day. “But the tone of it is surprise, because I never thought that I would have a career as an actor at all, least of all as a screen actor but that is what happened and it sort of charts those accidents that happened along the way of my life. I’d like to see a woman running most countries. And I’d think of some stories. My darling parents, all the funny adventures I’ve had with some really remarkable people. Speaking on UK TV show Lorraine, he said: “Well, I think women, generally speaking, are better actors than men. I suspect there wouldn’t be a Ukraine problem at the moment if we had a woman running Russia.”

Oscar winner Jane Campion had to hug "The Piano" actor Sam Neill on set due to the "lonely" production for the actor.

I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. I was there in an important feminist film. I realized on the first take that the struggle to get her out there would have to be actual. I always lift my game, I think.” “I don’t understand why there are more men directors than there are women. Neill summed up, “But it was a curiously solitary acting experience for me. And, yes, now I say it, there is nothing like being in the scene opposite a great woman who is working with you, against you and alongside you. I’m going to stick my neck out and say women are better at acting than men. The “Jurassic Park” actor added, The famous scene where I drag her out into the mud and sever one of her piano-playing fingers was a big ask. “It was an uncommonly lonely job for me. I never knew whether it was Holly looking at Sam, or Ada looking at Stewart. Playing our scenes together was disturbing for me.

Jane Campion Comforted Sam Neill on "The Piano" Set Collaborating with Jane Campion Sam Neill wrote in his upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?

I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. I realized on the first take that the struggle to get her out there would have to be actual. I was there in an important feminist film. The “Jurassic Park” actor added, The famous scene where I drag her out into the mud and sever one of her piano-playing fingers was a big ask. “She commits to a role, and any joking around, the everyday currency I’m used to, would’ve been a distraction for her. However, production proved to be especially “lonely” for Neill given his character’s relationship to the other cast members, as Neill’s Alisdair had a fraught marriage with Holly Hunter’s Ada and her young daughter, played by Anna Paquin.

But have you ever wondered where stars like Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and the original kids, Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards are today? The cast ...

Bob continued to act in films like Merchant of Venice and The Opium War before he sadly died in 1999. Since the hit films, he has played Li Shang in Disney's Mulan while also having starring roles in TV series like Oz, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Mr. He has a glistening television career with roles in Will & Grace and his own series The World According to Jeff Goldblum. As per his wishes, his ashes her interred in the St Magdalene Church in Richmond, London beside his daughter Jane and granddaughter Lucy, who died in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Martin has mostly retired from acting, but reprised his role in a CollegeHumor Originals sketch. She made some appearances in the Tremors franchise and Battledogs. Ellie Sattler in the popular film, and like many of the original characters she reprised her role in the most recent entry. Joseph rose to fame as Tim Murphy in Jurassic Park, the grandson of Richard Attenborough's Dr. He has also had roles in G.I. Jeff Goldblum was well-known by the time Jurassic Park rolled in, with his award-winning performance in The Fly. He progressed to a chemotherapy drug — which means he is now cancer-free, but he will have to take the medication for the rest of his life. The 75-year-old is highly decorated, being the recipient of three Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy nominations, alongside winning several New Zealand acting awards.

The cult classic 1981 divorce thriller was central to Neill's upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?” with the actor calling it “one of the best films I was ...

I have to say it was the most distressing thing I’ve ever had to do on film.” And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact.” I have never raised a hand to another human being and I have to say no. Isabelle famously had a breakdown at the end of it.” “I said: ‘Look, Andrzej, I have to say no. She said, ‘Sam, you have to do this. We had complete belief in him as an artist, and we wanted to make this thing, whatever it was. You needed to triple that. We really wanted to be in This Thing. But he had vision, he was a true cineaste. Not many people have ever seen it and, of those who have, it is true that many loathe it. “I didn’t like him much; what he saw as direction often was just downright bullying.