Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders star Sir Sam Neill was left overcome with emotion and struggling to speak over one question. Hollywood actor Sir Sam Neill has unexpectedly broken down in tears over a question posed to him by a young journalism student. The star, 76 – who has had leading roles in blockbuster films and TV shows including Jurassic Park , Peaky Binders and Bicentennial Man – was the surprise guest during the premiere of ABC’s new series The Assembly, hosted by Leigh Sales.
The show, based off the UK format, sees high-profile figures appear in front of a classroom of Australian university students, all of whom are autistic – and all of whom are allowed to ask whatever they want. In decades of press across his glittering career, it’s safe to say that Neill had never experienced an interview quite like this one – but there was one question that completely floored him..
