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Sam Neill hates me

posted 17 years ago by jamesbehave
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Yeah so my girlfriend and I were driving around the streets of Melbourne and we ended up passing a production team, with a beautiful movie camera, filming a piece of paper saying "missing" on it. So we wondered what they were filming so we got out and we were going to ask one of the people but meh.. didn't really want to interupt. And yeah so we wondered why they were filming in random spot in South Melbourne and then we saw a sign on the building saying "Illusion Studios" on it. So yeah that kind of explained a bit. And then we look at some guy in a suit walking out of the building across the street which happened to be apart of the "studio"... and I was like "hey that looks like Sam Neill". So I went up to him and said to him "hey aren't you Sam Neil?" and he was like "nah.. he's in there" and points to the studio and then turns away and I was like "yeah from Jurrassic Park" and he said no and just totally snobbed me off and walked in the studio.

It was pretty funny but later on I just felt like.. hey I met Sam Neill from one of my favourite movies and he practically snobbed me off. Pfft, he wasn't even busy. Just standing there in a quiet street doing nothing.. except lying to me about who he is. As if something like that would ever happen again. What kind of celebrities do you meet in Melbourne?
Rove? Andrew O'keefe? Grant Denyer? They're nice when you meet them.. but they're not big ones like he is.

So that's my story.
Pointless but strangely interesting

[–] CristinaS91 17 years ago

Wow, that is strangely interesting.

Sam Neill is my favourite actor, and I've always wished I could meet him. I live in Melbourne, and was hoping I could see him during filming of this movie, but I've been too busy, and since I'm only fifteen I don't really get much of a chance to go Sam-hunting by myself.

I would never have imagined that Sam Neill would be that rude; from other accounts of people meeting him, he seems like a nice guy. Poor you!

"And it went, wherever I, did go..."

[–] megatosspot 17 years ago

Did you have sick down the front of your shirt?

[–] jamesbehave 17 years ago

No..

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[–] manic_matviyko 17 years ago

Perhaps you talked to his stunt double/stand-in. Mel Gibson's stand-in is almost identical. With make-up and the right face, it's amazing what they can do.

If I was the stand-in, and people kept asking me each day I look exactly like a certain celebrity; ask for photographs and autographs...I would be him. At least until my agency fired me for identity theft, lol.

[–] RickIsEnough 17 years ago

Let´s say hypotheticly that I am a nice person and I´m walking a bit just to relax for a really stressful situation then suddenly this guy comes right at me for whatever reason and Im not the type that would tell him to *beep* off. Instead of that I play a non violent move by saying im not who he thinks I am. Am I any worse for doing that?

Everyone is a whole world, dude. Remember that. ^_^

[–] manic_matviyko 17 years ago

That's what I would do.

[–] LovesConfusingJoy 12 years ago

Me too. Who knows what kind of mood he was in.

Two can only keep a secret when one of them is dead

[–] gofish101 16 years ago

its no wonder. they were all a pack of rude ****s who worked on this movie. the director had no idea of what she was doing on it.

[–] labrat-8 12 years ago

I seem to recall a famous actor - can't recall who now - complaining bitterly on chat shows some years back that people would badger his stunt double on planes, in cafes etc for his autograph, thinking he was this actor. Being an honest soul and not wanting to con anyone, the poor stuntman was forever protesting he wasn't this actor. But the idiot fans just wouldn't believe him. Because, hey, they know better, right? They would then go off grumbling about what a rude, obnoxious guy the actor was.

I'm not saying this was your experience - but it's something to consider. Perhaps things weren't as they seem.

[–] Ithilfaen 15 years ago

lol... maybe he just snobbed you because the guy is a character actor who has over 50 movies in his filmo and one big mistake named Jurassic Park and you chose THAT one to remind him of...

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] Navin_R_Johnson 13 years ago

one big mistake named Jurassic Park

He went back for a sequel, not even the first sequel, so I don't think he hated the movie.

[–] turboknee 13 years ago

Jurassic Park a big mistake!? I'm sorry I'm sure any actor given an opportunity to work with Spielberg would not ever think it was a mistake.

He was in one of the greatest blockbusters ever made and I guarantee you're a troll if you think that he thinks it was a mistake.

He probable is just a jerk or was in a bad mood for having to do a straight to On Demand crapola like this AFTER doing movies like Jurassic Park, Event Horizon, Dead Calm, etc.

[–] jrobertfleming 8 years ago

Should've said "loved you in Children of the Revolution".

[–] leopold622002 8 years ago

The great thing about J.P. is the rousing score. And, Mr. Neill!

[–] Enoklyn 14 years ago

He is probably sick of people coming up to him all the time asking if he is Sam Neill, it must be so annoying when it happens for the 1000th time.
I think people should just leave celebrities alone instead of disturbing them, it's not like they owe you anything.

[–] stryder9898 13 years ago

The original post is great. I love all the details about such a brief event. Sam Neill definitely hates the original poster but we'll never know why. Maybe he just has a black heart. It is very mysterious and needs to be examined further.