âHe annotated my letter from Spielbergâ: readers pay tribute to Sam Neill
From teeing up a marriage to inspiring a career and giving 144 bottles of wine to his birthday band, the starâs admirers share their fondest memories Tributes to Sam Neill from Charles Dance, Lindsay Duncan and Peter Webber, Jane Campion, Gillian Armstrong and Miranda Richardson I bloody loved Sam Neill. I first saw him in Reilly: Ace of Spies, and even as a kid, I recognised his quality. For me, he was always the best thing in whatever he was in. To do that consistently over decades is some achievement. You could see the twinkle when he was being Sam. He might have taken his work seriously; I never felt he took himself seriously. That made him very lovable. Shirley, 55, West Yorkshire A lasting memory for me of Sam Neill was the version of himself he presented in lockdown. Perhaps his truest self. His gently amusing videos, along with his social commentary at that time, felt like the joyful release so many of us needed. Most joyful of all was the continued âbanterâ he would share with his on-screen colleague, and clearly dear friend, Jeff Goldblum. I would take one of my state-sanctioned walks at that time and pass two prominent oak trees leaning in to each other. I chose to
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