Sam Neill, the actor who rose to fame 30 years ago with Jurassic Park, has revealed that he has blood cancer and is being treated to fight the disease, which is already in stage 3 of its evolution. He has made it known in an interview with The Guardian about his book, Did I Ever Tell You This?.
"The thing is, I'm wrong. I may be dying, ”the 75-year-old New Zealand interpreter heartbreakingly admits in the first chapter of the book, where he opens up and admits that“ I may have to speed all this up ”, referring to his blood cancer.
Neill first experienced swollen glands during a commercial for Jurassic World Dominion in March of last year, and was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma shortly thereafter.
She had chemotherapy, but when it began to fail, she embarked on a new chemotherapy drug that she will continue to receive monthly for the rest of her life, although she is now cancer free.
“I can't pretend that the last year hasn't had its dark moments,” he says, though he also has an uplifting view of his career: “Those dark moments cast the light in a clear glow, you know, and they've made me grateful for every day and immensely grateful for all my friends. Just glad to be alive."
The book is precisely a form of therapy for Sam Neill, when he began to write vignettes of his life as a way to keep busy while receiving treatment last year for the stage 3 cancer he is fighting right now.
“I had nothing to do,” Neill confessed in his last interview, where he assures that he was “used to working”, something that cancer has interrupted: “I love working. I love being with people every day and enjoying human company and friendship and all that stuff. And suddenly I was deprived of it. And I thought: 'what am I going to do?'”, reflected the popular actor.
In fact, Neill believes that writing has been essential in order not to die at the hands of the cancer he suffers from: "It saved my life, because I couldn't have gone through that with nothing to do", highlights the interpreter, who also affirms that publishing the work It was accidental: “I never intended to write a book. But as I went on and kept writing, I realized that he was actually giving me a kind of reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, 'Tomorrow I'll write about it... that will entertain me.'”
Neill began his prolific career as an actor in the 1970s and has accumulated more than 150 roles, including Jurassic Park, Possession and El Piano. He is now preparing to shoot in Australia the television adaptation of the novel Apples Never Fall, which will co-star Annette Bening.
