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Sam Neill, 75, greeted followers with a video that exposed he’s doing “alive and kicking” regardless of not too long ago revealing his non-Hodgkin lymphoma prognosis in each a current interview and in his new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This? The actor, who additionally revealed he’s been present process chemotherapy as soon as a month, took to Instagram on Mar. 18 to share the clip, together with a prolonged caption that gave an replace. “Hi, I’m Sam Neill! Actor of sorts, vintner, and an author as it happens,” he wrote to start with of the caption.
After including that his well being “news seems to be all over the news at the moment, and it’s sort of, ‘Cancer! Cancer! Cancer!,’” he admitted to being “slightly tiresome, because as you see, I am alive and well, and I have been in remission for eight months, which feels really good.”
Sam additional wrote to followers about his therapeutic journey and gave them an replace on what he’s been as much as in his profession. In addition to mentioning his new Peacock collection, Apples Never Fall, which additionally stars actress Annette Bening, he went into particulars about his memoir and why he wrote it. “I just wish the headline wasn’t ‘that thing’ so much, because the main thing is that I have written this book, it’s called Did I Ever Tell You This?, and it does mention cancer, because that’s the sort of context in which I wrote it,” he wrote.
“But I didn’t really mean to write a book,” he added. “I needed something to do while I was undergoing treatment, and I am used to going to work, and I suddenly couldn’t go to work.” He went on to precise gratitude for his success as an actor.
“I never thought that I would have a career as an actor, let alone an actor on screen,” he wrote. “But that’s kind of what happened and I am full of gratitude looking back on this life, and that’s what the book is about. I hope you enjoy it.” He concluded his publish by assuring his followers to “not worry too much about ‘all that’ because I’m fine.”
Sam is greatest identified for his position as Alan Grant within the hit Jurassic Park franchise. He additionally starred within the widespread Nineteen Nineties movie, The Hunt for Red October, and has received quite a few awards for his work through the years.
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