Sam Neill wants everyone to know that he is “doing fine” after recently revealing that he was diagnosed with stage 3 blood cancer last year.
Jurassic Park The star, 75, took to Instagram on Saturday to reassure fans that she has been in remission for the past eight months.
Dressed casually in a white T-shirt, Neil noted in a longer video that it’s a little “weary” to hear about his health struggles in the news because he’s “alive and well.”
“My [health] It seems like news is all over the news at the moment, and it’s kind of like ‘Cancer! cancer! Cancer!'” the New Zealand-born star shared.
According to Neal, his health is improving, he is “alive and active and … very happy to be back at work.” Next week, he’ll be back in front of the camera co-starring with Annette Bening in the upcoming adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s book apples never fall, But ultimately, he wishes the conversation around him focused more on his upcoming memoir, Have I ever told you this?Which he wrote while undergoing treatment for cancer.
“I just wish the title wasn’t ‘that thing,’ because the main thing is I wrote this book,” he continued. “And it mentions cancer because that’s kind of the context in which I wrote it.”
He continued, “I didn’t really mean to write a book; I needed to do something while I was undergoing treatment, and I’m used to going to work and I suddenly couldn’t go to work. So I did this.” Wrote the book, and I have to say there’s been a great response to it.”
Neil further added that he never thought that he would have such a flourishing acting career. This is why he subtitled the book “Movies, Life, Love and Other Catastrophes”.
“So that gives you an idea of all the crazy things that happened to me. The tone of the book is one of surprise,” the piano Star explained. “I never thought I’d have a career as an actor, let alone as an actor on screen. But it happened and I’m full of gratitude looking back on this life, and that’s what the book is about.” “
He concluded by asking people to focus on the book instead of cancer.
“Let’s not worry too much about ‘all that’ because I’m fine,” he concluded, accompanied by fans and friends ranging from Tom Payne. alan cumming To tatum o’neal And Bobby Cannavale is chiming in to share his well wishes in the comments.
Neil spoke about his health condition for the first time in an interview with Guardian Which was released on Friday. He shared that he first learned he was ill while working for the press. jurassic world dominion Last year, noting that he had swollen glands. Within weeks, he was receiving chemotherapy for angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a blood cancer. Unfortunately, the first round of treatment didn’t work. The piece cited a passage in his book in which he wrote “The thing is, I’m badass. Probably dying. I might have to step it up.” Neil further stated that he “isn’t afraid of dying, but it would bother me.”
He told the newspaper, “I would really like another decade or two, you know? We’ve built all these beautiful terraces, we have these olive trees and cypresses, and I want to see it mature.” I have my sweet little grandchildren. I want to see them grow up. But for those who die? I couldn’t care less.