‘Some fantastic mischief lurking just around the grin’: Sam Neill by Tara Fitzgerald – a prose poem

Neill’s co-star in the 1994 comedy-drama Sirens remembers a man of rare beauty, generosity and delight By the time I met Sam He had already assumed a kind of mythic status in our household, playing Reilly on Ace of Spies. My stepfather was his boss. 11 years on and I get to work with him, Playing Norman Lindsay (wryly). He was Electric-minded Some fantastic mischief lurking just around the grin The twinkle of his eye An astronomical scintillation No time for ...

By Tara Fitzgerald