Sam Neill spent much of his career playing men who remained calm while everything around them fell apart. That quality extended beyond the screen. In one of his final interviews, the OG Jurassic Park cast member reflected on cancer, aging and the legacy he hoped to leave behind with the warmth and dry humor that defined so many of his public appearances.
The conversation was conducted by The Telegraph in August 2025, nearly a year before Neill died on July 13, 2026, at age 78. The interview was arranged ahead of the Netflix crime drama Untamed, one of his final television projects, and published posthumously on July 15. Reading it now, some of his comments carry an emotional weight neither he nor the interviewer probably could have fully anticipated. He shared:
