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- ScreenTalk Legends - Sam Neill
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Sam Neill reckons that "the only thing I can halfway do that's decent is acting". Over a multidecade career, the self-deprecating actor, winemaker and director (Cinema of Unease) has played cops, criminals, the anti-Christ, a man on the run, and a priest who thinks he was once a dog — plus at least 100 other screen roles. In this extended ScreenTalk Legends interview, the star of The Piano, Death in Brunswick and Hunt for the Wilderpeople talks about: Discovering his crippling stammer disap...
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/interviews/legends-sam-neill-2024
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