“Jurassic Park” star Sam Neill assured fans that he’s “nice” after mounting concerns over his health since revealing he was being treated for cancer.
Neill revealed his battle with stage 3 blood cancer in his upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?”
The 75-year-old said he was soon diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, undergoing chemotherapy until he switched to a recent drug he expects to take every month for the remainder of his life.
“I’m alive and well and I even have been in remission for 8 months, which feels really good,” he said in a video shared on the platform Friday. “And I’m alive and kicking and I’m going to work.”
Neill, who has been in remission for 8 months, said he’s diving back into onscreen work inside days alongside Annette Bening within the limited series “Apples Never Fall.”
“I’m very completely happy to be going back to work,” Neill told his 542,000 followers. “Let’s not worry an excessive amount of about ‘all that’ because I’m nice. Okay,” he concluded his video, referring to concerns over his previous diagnosis.
Concerns over Neill’s health went into overdrive Friday after an excerpt from his book was revealed.
“The thing is, I’m crook. Possibly dying,” he writes in the primary chapter, which comes out Tuesday. “I can have to hurry this up.”
He said he never intended to jot down a memoir, but began doing so during treatment last 12 months, as he realized it “was actually kind of giving me a reason to live.”
“I discovered myself with … nothing to do,” Neill explained to the Guardian in an interview published Friday.
“And I’m used to working. I really like working. I really like going to work. I really like being with people on daily basis and having fun with human company and friendship and all these items. And suddenly I used to be deprived of that. And I believed, ‘What am I going to do?’”
Neill added that he’s now cancer-free, though he does depend on the monthly chemotherapy drug.
The actor rose to international fame in 1993 together with his role as Dr. Alan Grant in “Jurassic Park.”
He played the identical character in 2001’s “Jurassic Park III” and the 2022 film “Jurassic World Dominion.”
