Sam Neill describes his wild night out with Irish actor Patrick Gibson: ‘I gave him the real Aussie experience!’
Legend Sam Neill still knows how to party at 75-year-old Jurassic Park.
When Irish actor Patrick Gibson, 27, first landed in Australia to film The Portable Door alongside acclaimed actor, Sam took him on a wild night out to give him ‘the proper Australian experience’.
Speak against 9EntertainmentPatrick said the last thing he expected when he arrived Down Under was a text from Sam asking him to go out for a night in the Sunshine Coast.
“I just got a text like, ‘Sam Neill here, hello, can’t wait to meet you all – here’s the plan,'” he explained.
“I was like… “What?” It didn’t disappoint!’
Sam Neill (pictured) took his co-star Patrick Gibson on a wild night out to give him ‘the real Australian experience’
Sam added that he wanted the cast to bond before filming began for the Stan Original fantasy film, and wanted to show Patrick that the Aussies can party.
“I thought he must have a real Australian experience, so when we first met I said, ‘We’re going out tonight,'” said Sam.
“So we all went to the RSL in Surfers Paradise and saw a Queen cover band.”
Patrick (pictured) said the last thing he expected when he arrived Down Under was a text from Sam asking him to go out for a night in the Sunshine Coast
Earlier, Patrick, who plays Paul Carpenter’s main character in the film, spoke to Daily Mail Australia and said it was a dream to work with big names like Sam and the Oscar-winning Christoph Waltz.
“The first time I met Sam, we were blaring bohemian Rhapsody!” said Patrick.
“It was so much fun and the first time I’ve been to Australia. We had such a great crew. And there’s so much talent working on it. And it’s so nice to be back.
“It was all amazing and so much fun. Working with those guys was real and it was such a dream.”
While filming The Portable Door, none of the cast knew that Sam was privately suffering from a serious illness.
The New Zealand actor shocked the world when he revealed last month that he had been diagnosed with stage three blood cancer.
Sam played the role of Dennis Tanner in The Portable Door alongside Miranda Otto (both pictured)
Thankfully, he’s now eight months into remission, but he admitted to The Project that the frightening diagnosis led him to write his memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? quickly because he feared he would die.
“I wrote it in a hurry because I didn’t quite know how long I was going to live,” he said on the show last month.
“So I’d wake up in the morning and say I need to get that chapter done because I’ve been thinking about it all night
“But I think that gives it a kind of spontaneity that otherwise wouldn’t have been there, and maybe there are more things I should have thought about!”
The New Zealand actor shocked the world when he revealed last month that he had been diagnosed with stage three blood cancer (pictured on The Project)