Sam Neill
speaker
460 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
Sam Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And all these things come out and that's lots of fun.
Peter O'Toole, I loved working with him because at this stage he was very... I actually did three projects.
There was only one that we actually had any proper engagement.
There was a film called Dean Spanley and I'd go into his little tent.
It was midwinter in England.
And his circulation was terribly bad.
He'd lived a good life, shall we say.
And, you know, the old circulatory system was hardly working.
So he did most of the film in Ugg boots because blood was hardly getting to his feet anymore.
He just had, like a lot of people that have spent a surprising amount of their times imbibing various things, he remembered things with complete clarity.
They sort of coagulated into the most brilliant stories about people he knew.
It was such fun.
He said it just like this.
I said, what was Elizabeth Taylor like?
He said, Elizabeth Taylor was a...
And then he went on to tell the whole of the stories to her, which certainly seemed to confirm that opinion.
No, I never imagined that I would be an actor because I grew up in New Zealand and there was hardly any acting to be done.
And when I got to a sort of viable age when I'd left university and I thought, I'd really like to do that.
I was doing some acting in university, of course.
Then when I left, the only work there was really was in radio drama and the odd play.
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