Sam Neill has special memories of Robin Williams who worked with him in 1999 Bicentennial man. Neill, 75, reflected on their time together in his new memoir, released on March 21. did i ever tell you that
Neill recalled their “great conversations” during their visits to each other’s trailers.
“We talked about this and that, sometimes even the work we wanted to do,” he said, calling Williams “irresistible, outrageous, unstoppable, hilariously funny.”
But even in those good times, Neill sensed something was wrong, calling Williams “the saddest person I’ve ever met.”
Williams committed suicide on August 11, 2014 at the age of 63.
“He was famous, he was rich, people loved him, big kids – the world was his oyster. And yet I felt more sorry for him than I can express. He was the loneliest man on a lonely planet,” Neill wrote. Williams appeared “heartbroken lonely and deeply depressed.”
Williams used humor as a form of self-medication, Neill theorized, saying, “Funny things just came out of him.”
“And they were all stitched up, and when they were all stitched up, you could tell Robin was happy,” Neill said.
Source: Deadline
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