“The fact is: I am sick. Maybe dying. I will have to speed up”, he writes in the first chapter of his book “Did I ever tell you this? (“Have I ever told you that?”), which he wrote while undergoing chemotherapy.
During an interview with the British daily “The Guardian”, the actor specifies however that he is in remission, but will have to continue this treatment until the end of his life. “I can’t pretend the past year hasn’t had its share of dark moments,” he said, his cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, having been diagnosed in 2022.
“Happy to be alive”
“But those dark times bring out the light,” added the British-New Zealander, “just happy to be alive.”
Sam Neill, 75, is best known for playing one of the protagonists of “Jurassic Park”, Professor Alan Grant, in three installments of the saga, including the first time in 1993 under the direction of Steven Spielberg. His long career in front of the camera began in the 1970s, until more recent roles such as in the hit series “Peaky Blinders” or the last part of “Jurassic Park”, entitled “The world after”, released in 2022.
