Sam Neill and why he has a cow called Helena Bonham Carter

“Michael Fassbender is an idiot,” Sam Neill sighs. “Honestly, he’s sooo slow. I have some demonic chicks that tear the food out of his mouth and the poor Michael Fassbender He just stands there…”

Really, Neill is not talking regarding the actor with whom he shared the screen in 2007. Far from it. What amuses him is calling the animals you have on your farm like his former co-stars.

The protagonist of Jurassic Park lives on a five-hectare plot in the Otago region, the wine growing area southernmost New Zealand. There she has a “lovely” cow named following Helena Bonham Carter (with whom she acted in the game of revenge), the tender lamb Jeff Goldblum or the sow Anjelica Houston. In Sam Neill’s chicken coop there is also room for Kate Winslet (“an ideal mother because she is so kind to her chickens”) and Michael Fassbender the rooster. Precisely, the German-Irish interpreter, who starred with Neill in the historical romance Ángel by Francois Ozon, has been the only celebrity who has been offended (or at least that he has expressed it publicly) for being part of Sam Neill’s particular farm.

As he finalizes the release of his autobiography, Neill promotes The Twelvea drama in which he gives life to a lawyer who defends an artist on trial for the murder of his teenage niece.

With more than 70 films to his credit, it’s the first time Neill has played a lawyer and he studied law in college. The first year of his degree was a disaster and he admits that it was because he spent “too much time acting in plays, chasing girls… Skills that turned out to be more useful to me in the long run!” Back then, making a career on the big screen was far from the imagination of sam neillwho was a stutterer since childhood.