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Sam Neill has had plenty of experience fighting dinosaurs and gangsters throughout his iconic Hollywood career. From portraying the role of Alan Grant in theJurassic Parkfranchise to Chester Campbell inPeaky Blinders,Neill is known as a versatile actor for a reason.
In recent reports, the actor sided alongside another Hollywood veteran Tom Cruise in the fight for theaters vs. streaming services. Talking about his own experience in theater screens, Sam Neill recalled the experience and the thrill of hearing the people shout wildly during the screening ofJurassic Park.
Sam Neill Sides Alongside Tom Cruise In His Backing For Theaters!
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Tom Cruise essentially saved theaters when he released his iconic 2022 movieTop Gun: Maverickand James Cameron’sAvatar: The Way of Wateralso helped Cruise along the way. Now, in an interview, iconic actorSam Neilltalked about his theater experience toThe Telegraph. Recalling the days when theater screens were packed with people shouting wildly at the screen, Neill told the tale of when he couldn’t hear the dinosaurs roar in a theater in Harlem.
“Jurassic Park was a really good example of why there is no substitute for going out to the movies. It was like an immersive experience. I remember going to a screening in Harlem where people made so much noise, whooping and hollering, that you could hardly hear the dinosaurs roar.”
ThePeaky Blindersstar further continued,
“And then another one in Tokyo a week later, in absolute silence. The curious thing was that both audiences enjoyed the movie equally.”
As per the actor, he had also auditioned for the role of James Bond but was glad that he did not get selected for the iconic 007 role!
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After Neill found success in his role as Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg’sJurassic Parkback in 1993, he received appreciation that he could take on the role of the next James Bond. Before Pierce Brosnan was hired for the role, Sam Neill did audition for the role but revealed in his chat withThe Telegraphthat it was a very different audition.
“It was one rather excruciating moment in a long career but people keep asking me about the Bond thing. And I can only say I’m very glad I’m not an ex-Bond.”
Neill found success by starring inJurassic Park(1993) and in recent times by reprising his role inJurassic World Dominion.The movie that started it all is available to rent on Apple TV+ in the U.S.
Source:The Telegraph
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
