"Vale Sam Neill & The Irish Mind Games Begin"
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How did the hosts pay tribute to Sam Neill and which of his films do they discuss?
Good morning, Tony Lau. Good morning, G-Lane.
It's a somber day, a sad day, a black day. Fog hangs over New Zealand, of course, as we mourn the loss of maybe our greatest ever New Zealander, Sir Sam Neill. That's right. Did you ever work with him or cross paths with him? I don't even know if I've seen him in real life. Yeah, I was racking – raking through my archive in my head, wondering if I'd been to an event or been anywhere near him and I could put a post up just to kind of munch some of that morning mana. It was mana munch central last night of everyone trying to loosely connect their thread back to him. I'm sure I've maybe seen him. I worked for the project for many years and he would have come in there a dozen times. So I'm sure I would have crossed paths with him there at some stage.
But it's not about us. It's about him. What a legacy. What a legend. I mean, the hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park. Oh, yeah. The Piano, Hunt for the Wilder People, Peaky Blinders. It's an outrageous list. Peaky Blinders was his creepiest one, I reckon. Yeah, well, I kind of like it when a guy like that who's kind of universally beloved just goes and turns a bit heel on it and is like, you know what, I'll be a bit of a scoundrel here. However, there's one. I read his book actually recently. Is it something you might not have heard this? It's a good book, but he talks about one particular movie and he really brushes over it. Yeah. And that is the worst movie he's ever done that he refuses to do any media for or talk about and also quite topical.
Because back when there was some really bad PR floating around set blatter and FIFA and corruption and everything else, in their infinite wisdom, they decided to commission a feature film about FIFA and how great it is. So FIFA produced this movie? Correct. At a cost of tens and tens of millions of dollars. So obviously all the money they make from all these World Cups, they spend on obviously to grow the game and to grow their own image. Well, I mean, it's all one and the same, isn't it? You're growing FIFA, you're growing the game. Ipso facto, doesn't matter how you clean that money up. But obviously FIFA dictated the storyline and how everyone was portrayed. It was called United Passions. Which sounds like something I might watch on VHS when I was sort of 16 years old and we might pass around the boys for sort of a week at a time, United Passions.
It's certainly not that. It is still regarded particularly not only by Sam Neill, but by the Globe as the worst movie ever made. He plays Juan Havelange, which is the Brazilian president, the seventh president of FIFA, if I'm not mistaken. But he was the Brazilian one. He was the one that first brought in sponsorship. And he hired a commercial director by the name of Sepp Blatter to go and do deals with Coke and Adidas and actually commercialize the World Cup, actually sell the TV rights. He was the one. So anyway, Sam Neill played one. Have lunch in that. I mean, you have to imagine he had a devastating payday for that one. If you're getting it straight from FIFA, I mean, you probably just get an account
a Swiss account set up in your name, right? And you go, hey, look in there, you don't have to pay tax on that. That's all just sitting there waiting for you. Whenever you want to open it, feel free to open a winery in the South Island with everything that's in there. That's pretty much what he says in his book.
Oh, wow.
Pretty much what he says in his book. So there was other people in this movie that were quite well known. Gérard Depardieu. Oh, Gérard Depardieu. He was in it. There was some other quite big names, including Tim Roth. was in it, they all, every single one of them, refused to do any media around it. And that's when you know you're getting a massive payday. And you've also signed a pretty watertight contract when you're saying, I'll be in it, that's fine, but I'm not doing the publicity. Because normally that's part of the contract you sign when you're doing one of these is that you'll do X amount of promo days and you'll carry on sort of talking about it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did the hosts pay tribute to Sam Neill and which of his films do they discuss?
0:00–4:52
2
What is the story behind Sam Neill's role in FIFA's 'United Passions' and why is it considered his worst film?
4:52–17:35
3
Why was Reiko Ioane recalled to the All Blacks and how are injuries shaping the Ireland Test selection?
17:35–27:05
4
Which All Blacks injury updates and squad availability were discussed ahead of the weekend?
27:05–39:09
5
What happened in the Black Caps vs West Indies ODI and who starred with the ball?
39:09–43:12
6
Who is Tom Vodanovich and what did he say about the Sal's NBL, Rapid League and his playing career?
43:12–50:03