i like how scared he looks. like suddenly his consciousness is locked in his head and doesn’t have access to his body anymore :) and we get to watch the realization unfold in real time :)
Steven Spielberg has written a tribute about the late Sam Neill after his tragic passing.
“I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.
Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children.
I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him. Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)
Sam Neill on why "The Piano" (1993) is an important movie in Cinema history:
"I don’t think I can overestimate how important 'The Piano' (1993) is for me in hindsight. It sits on my funny old CV like a medal on my chest. It wasn’t my film. It was Jane Campion's. I wasn’t the star of the film. That was Holly Hunter. But there is honour to be found in the second fiddle. Or fourth. No one notices you much, you don’t get nominated for things. But you served. I was there in an important feminist film. I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. Neither of these labels does the film justice. It’s a work of art. And look, that tiny little figure in the fabric— see down there on the right—that’s me. It’s a film that will always have a place in cinema history. And I served in it."
("Did I Ever Tell You This: A Memoir", Sam Neill, 2023)
Bad Empanada is from 5-Eyes settler colonial outpost / indigenous slaughterhouse "Australia" that proudly send their Nazis to fight in Amerikkkan wars, but he is definitely not complicit because he has the balls to say that black people are equally responsible for this.
No, the USSR did not “kill just as many people as the Nazis”. This is called double genocide theory, and it is quite literally holocaust denial. It was invented by Lithuanian fascists and codified by Margaret thatcher and friends in Prague and is pure propaganda.
like, really, inviting that kind of scrutiny—completely unprompted, mind you—when you look like That is……….well, there must be an explanation! that’s all i’m saying!
you could show me his tweets @ this woman completely independent of his other content, tell me he was a right winger, and i’d believe you! why do they all do that? and how much does it have to do with this astronomically disproportionate confidence:looks ratio????