Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill is being treated for stage three blood cancer, the actor revealed in a new interview published on Friday. | News24Arts
."But 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. Just pleased to be alive."
In the interview, Neill shares that chemotherapy treatment initially failed but that he is now cancer-free after switching to a new anti-cancer drug that he will take for the rest of his life."I'd really like another decade or two, you know? We've built all these lovely terraces, we've got these olive trees and cypresses, and I want to be around to see it all mature. And I've got my lovely little grandchildren. I want to see them get big.
He added,"I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live and I would go to bed thinking, 'I'll write about that tomorrow, that will entertain me.'" Northern Ireland-born Neill, who lives in New Zealand, began acting in the 1970s and is perhaps best known for his role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in the
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