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- Sam Neill: On his early directing career and moving into acting...
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Sam Neill moved from directing at the National Film Unit, to becoming one of New Zealand's most internationally successful actors. His extended resume of features includes lead roles in a number of local movies, from playing a man alone in breakout feature Sleeping Dogs to an unusual reverend in Dean Spanley. In this ScreenTalk interview, Neill talks about: How his university friend John Laing indirectly led him to a job at the National Film Unit The attitude of making "one film for them, an...
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- actor / hollywood / icon / sam neill / national film unit / nfu / architect athfield / flare / ashes / sleeping dogs / dean spanley / toa fraser / john laing / barry barclay / ian athfield / skiing / bayly watson / my brilliant career / bryan brown / national film board / ski films / tourism / freestyle skiing / flare a ski trip / flare- a ski trip / ngauruhoe / mt ngauruhoe / mount ngauruhoe / arriflex / arriflex camera / documentaries / architecture / architects association of new zealand / architects / director / directing / pacific pictures / actors / acting / ian mune / roger donaldson / roger donaldson: sleeping dogs / smash palace / and more… / priest / cannes / cannes film festival / peter o'toole / 2009
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