Remembering the quiet genius of Sam Neill
The greatest gift of the late New Zealand actor was making audiences believe there was always more beneath the surface, a film expert says
I remember watching an interview with actor Sam Neill, who has died aged 78, saying “Good screen acting hints at secrets. At other lives underneath the veneer.”
At the time, I wondered what were these secrets Neill was referring to.
I just had to look at the vast body of Neill’s work, the characters he played, and how he played them to answer that question.
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