{"product_id":"did-i-ever-tell-you-this-a-memoir","title":"Did I Ever Tell You This? A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Instore end of March 23\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/afternoons\/audio\/2018872081\/bookmarks-with-sam-neill\" title=\"RNZ Bookmarks 21 Dec 22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eClick here to visit RNZ Bookmarks with Sam Neill - a wonderful interview in Dec 22\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSam Neill's unmissable memoir is revealing, heart-warming and often hilarious, as he recounts the unpredictable turns of fortune that have defined his life and career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion. By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong's celebrated My Brilliant Career. And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Did I Ever Tell You This?\u003c\/em\u003e is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Text Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42513976033430,"sku":"9781922790309","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/products\/jacket---2023-01-23T170512-935.jpg?v=1678665174","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/did-i-ever-tell-you-this-a-memoir","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}