Sam Neill ‘I’m writing a new chapter ’
Sam Neill was leaving his local café two weeks ago when he heard a loud call. “Hey,” yelled a man from across the street. “I know you. You’re on TV. What’s your name?”
“I said, ‘Hugo Weaving’,” Sam recalls now, chuckling at the memory. “And he went, ‘Oh yep,’ and wandered off. He seemed perfectly happy with that.”
It seems almost impossible that Sam Neill could pass unrecognised. His five decade-long career has seen him go from blockbusters to arthouse films, comedy flicks to gritty drama series and more. He’s trodden the boards and taken over social media during lockdown – his Instagram feed as famous for the A-list appearances from his friends as for the farm animals that surround his home in Central Otago, New Zealand. He’s been in so many projects that, he admits today, even he can’t remember the names of all of them. Sometimes when one of his films or series re-runs on television he is startled to see
