Sam Neill, a key figure in Australian and New Zealand new wave cinema, dies aged 78
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What Sam Neill Said about His Garden before His Death Should Have Us All Thinking (and Planting) Differently.
Earlier this year we lost Sam Neill. The star of Jurassic Park, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Peaky Blinders, he was also a winemaker, farmer, and by all accounts lovely person.Three years ago, Neill was already thinking about the end of his life. When he spoke to The Guardian in 2023, he was in remission from Stage 3 blood cancer. And the thing that was weighing on him most was his garden."I'm not afraid to die, but it would annoy me. Because …
Sam Neill faced dinosaurs, submarines, assassins and all kinds of cinematographic threats, but he never needed to raise his voice to conquer the viewer. He had enough of that serene look, his natural elegance and a humanity that managed to cross the screen. The actor died unexpectedly on July 13, at 78, as a result of pneumonia, after having managed to overcome the aggressive lymphoma that was diagnosed in 2022.
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