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George Miller remembers Sam Neill as ‘comprehensively an amazing person’

Acclaimed director George Miller shared memories of the late Sam Neill, who died yesterday at the age of 78.

He was such an exemplary human being. We saw him as an actor and we got to know him as an actor. The world did. But what was so amazing about him is that he was comprehensively an amazing person. …

He lived life very, very fully, basically with an enormous amount of wisdom ultimately.

He was, you know, part of the global industry, but never, never pretended he was from anywhere else. He’s one of those people that at heart, I guess he was a Kiwi, but Australia, he had significant influence on Australian cinema, and globally.
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