Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) shared his memories of robin williams in her forthcoming memoir, Did I ever tell you?. Neill had the opportunity to work with Williams on the 1999 film Bicentennial manand though it was a special experience for him, he also noticed how sad Willams was.
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Neill talked about the “great chats” during their visits to each other in their trailers, saying, “We would talk about this and that, sometimes even the work we were about to do. He went on to describe Williams as ‘compelling, outrageously, irrepressibly, giganticly funny “.
While the two were having a great time with each other, Neill sensed something was wrong and called Williams, “The saddest person I’ve ever met.” He went on to write:
“He had fame, he was rich, people loved him, great kids – the world was his oyster. Yet I felt sorry for him more than I could express. He was the loneliest man on a lonely planet. Williams looked “inconsolably lonely and deeply depressed”.
Neill theorized that Williams used his humor as a form of self-medication, saying that “funny stuff just came out of him, and everybody was in stitches, and when everybody was in stitches, you could see Robin was happy.”
Williams died by suicide at the age of 63 on August 11, 2014.
Source: Deadline
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