Sam Neill wants everyone to know he is “fine” after recently revealing he was diagnosed with stage 3 blood cancer last year.
The Jurassic Park Star, 75, took to Instagram on Saturday to assure fans he has been in remission for eight months.
Dressed casually in a white t-shirt, Neill remarked in a lengthy video that hearing about his health issues on the news was a bit “tiring” as he was “alive and doing well”.
“My [health] News seems to be all over the news right now, and it’s kind of a ‘cancer! Cancer! Cancer!” shared the New Zealand-born star.
According to Neill, his health on the upswing, he is “alive and lively and … very happy to be getting back to work.” Next week he will be back in front of the camera, starring alongside Annette Bening in the forthcoming adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s book Apples never fall. But ultimately he wishes the dialogue around him focused more on his upcoming memoir, did i ever tell you thatwhich he wrote while receiving cancer treatment.
“I just wish the headline wasn’t so much ‘the thing’ because the main thing is that I wrote this book,” he continued. “And it mentions cancer because that’s the context in which I wrote it.”
He added: “I didn’t actually want to write a book; I needed something to do while undergoing treatment and I’m used to going to work and suddenly couldn’t go to work. That’s why I wrote the book, and I have to say the response to it has been great.”
Neill went on to explain that he never thought he would have such a blossoming acting career. That’s one of the reasons he subtitled the book Movies, Life, Love, and Other Disasters.
“It gives you an idea of all the crazy things that have happened to me. The tone of the book is surprising.” Piano star explained. “I never thought I would have a career as an actor, let alone an actor on screen. But something like that happened and I’m filled with gratitude when I look back on that life and that’s what the book is about.”
He concluded by urging people to focus on the book and not the cancer.
“Let’s not worry too much about ‘all of this’ because I’m fine,” he concluded with fans and friends of Tom Payne and Alan Cumming To Tatum O’Neal and Bobby Cannavale chimes in on the comments to share their well wishes.
Neill spoke for the first time in an interview with about his health situation Guardian that was released on Friday. He shared that he first discovered he was ill while working for the press Jurassic World Dominion last year he noticed he had swollen glands. Within weeks, he was receiving chemotherapy for angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a blood cancer. Unfortunately, the first round of treatment didn’t work. The play quoted a passage in his book in which he writes, “The thing is, I’m a crook. I may die. I might have to speed this up.” Neill went on to say that he’s “not afraid of death, but it would annoy me.”
He told the newspaper: “I’d really like to have another decade or two, you know? We’ve built all these beautiful patios, we have these olive trees and cypresses, and I want to be there to see it all mature. And I have my lovely little grandchildren. I want to see them grow up. But as for dying? I do not care about that at all.”
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