The New Zealand actor’s new memoir reveals that he has been ‘crook’ with blood cancer and will need chemo for the rest of his life. But relaxing on his farm, he is philosophical. ‘Dying? I couldn’t care less,’ he says
f you came to Sam Neill’s memoir without knowing the first thing about it, chapter one would hold a terrible shock. It begins amusingly enough: a lovely anecdote about his daughter Elena being asked at school when she was little about what her dad does for work.
As narrative set-ups go, it’s a hook all right. There are so many questions: is he OK? Will he be OK? Where will we be by the book’s end? Should you … cheat and skip to the last chapter to find out what happens? “I’m not afraid to die,” he says, “but it would annoy me. Because 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.
I have friends who are real celebrities, and I wouldn’t swap my life for theirs – there’s a complete lack of privacy
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