Just a few days ago Sam Neill, the actor who became famous all over the world for his role of paleontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic Parkrevealed that it is being treated for blood cancer He’s in phase three.
Given the numerous and viral repercussions generated by the sad news – mostly supportive, merely sensationalist, many others -, Neill has taken up the topic again in his networks to “remind her fans that she’s recovering and that I’d rather they focus on their work.”
“My case seems to be all over the news right now, and they only talk about “Cancer!” Cancer! Cancer!‘” Neill said. “Which is a bit of a struggle because, as you can see, I am alive and well and have been in remission for eight months, which feels really good. I’m alive and well and going to work.”
“I am very happy to be back to work. We will start shooting in seven days. I am doing it apples never fall with Annette Bening and a truly wonderful cast. So here I am, and I just wish the title wasn’t “that thing”.
Neill went on to explain that the hiatus he’s been forced to take from acting led him to write his later memoirs, that will be called Did I ever tell you?
A healing book, yours
She said writing the book has been a surprisingly positive experience and that he doesn’t want his diagnosis to interfere with people’s enjoyment.
“I didn’t really intend to write a book, I needed something to do while in treatment; I’m used to going to work and suddenly I couldn’t go to work. That’s why I wrote the book and I must say that it has had a very good response.
“People seem to like it, which is great. Like any first-time author, I was obviously very nervous. Anyway, I think it’s fun. We subtitled it Movies, life, love and other catastrophes.
“So it gives you an insight into all the crazy things that have happened to me. The tone of the book is one of surprise. I never thought I would have an acting career., let alone as an on-screen actor. But that’s more or less what happened. And I’m filled with gratitude when I look back on this life, and that’s what the book is about.
Light in the dark
She said her book is not a cancer memoir, but that his illness forms a “spiral thread” throughout the narrative. Specifically, the doctors diagnosed it “a ferocious type of aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma”.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a less common cancer that develops in the lymphatic system., the extensive network of vessels and glands in the body. Neill received chemotherapy, but when it started failing, he took on a new type of drug that he will continue to receive monthly for the rest of his life.
“I can’t pretend last year didn’t have its dark moments,” he said. “But those dark moments made me feel grateful for every day and immensely grateful for all my friends. just happy to be alive“, He added.
One of the things she misses the most is her hair. She says she lost it after the first round of chemotherapy and writes in her memoirs that when she looks in the mirror, “there’s a bald and wizened old man there.”
“More than anything, I want my beard back. I don’t like the way my face looks at all.” Indeed, at one point she thinks that the subtitle of the book could have been “Notes from a Dying Man”.
Furthermore Jurassic ParkNeill starred Peaky Blinders, Poseidon, The Hunt for Red October AND Event horizon, Moreover. “I’m not afraid to die“, he says. “What I don’t want to do is stop living, because I really like living,” he concludes.
Source: Clarin
