{"id":832938,"date":"2026-07-30T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:04:31","slug":"nicole-kidman-and-laura-dern-remember-sam-neill-in-touching-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832938\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern remember Sam Neill in touching tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern have teamed up to remember their late friend Sam Neill.<\/p>\n

The Kiwi actor died on July 13, with his famous pals lining up to pay tribute in the weeks following his untimely passing aged 78.<\/p>\n

Now Nicole \u2014 who starred alongside Sam in Dead Calm \u2014 and Laura, who famously acted opposite Sam in Jurassic Park, have remembered their mate, by tucking into a bottle of his wine together.<\/p>\n

Laura shared the picture on her Instagram Stories, writing over the top: \u201cRaising a glass to our beloved friend and leading man, Sam.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust the way he would want, toasting with his gorgeous Pinot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bottle of wine was from Two Paddocks \u2014 the wine company Sam founded back in 1993.<\/p>\n

Both Laura and Nicole, who starred together in HBO series Big Little Lies, smiled as the photos was taken.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe Big Little Lies stars smiled as they posed with a bottle from Neill\u2019s vineyard. Credit: @lauradern\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The A-list actresses aren\u2019t the only people raising a glass of pinot to the late Jurassic Park star, however.<\/p>\n

Alcohol retailers across New Zealand and Australia have revealed sales of the Two Paddocks wine range have soared dramatically since Neill\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since July 13, sales of the vineyard\u2019s pinot noir have spiked by an astonishing 1828 per cent \u2014 with the red wine jumping from Liquorland NZ\u2019s 423rd best selling bottle to their fifth most popular.<\/p>\n

The bottles have also been in high demand across Liquorland stores in Australia, with the website listing the red wine as one of the most popular purchases this week.<\/p>\n

Two Paddocks general manager Jacqui Murphy said the actor would have been \u201cdeeply moved\u201d by the widespread support of his wine brand.<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe late actor first founded the wine company in 1993 – the same year he starred in Jurassic Park alongside Dern. Credit: Christopher David Thompson\/Two Paddocks<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure he would regret the reason they needed to do this but he talked about wine being conviviality, connecting people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he would think it was very apt and he\u2019d be even more excited that they were, of course, drinking his Two Paddocks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dean McHenry, who manages Two Paddocks\u2019 distributor Negociants New Zealand, said the brand had always been popular but demand has boomed in the past week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think it shows what he meant to us as a nation at the bottom of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Aside from the Jurassic Park films, Neill was also known for the Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Rams \u2014 shot in WA\u2019s Great Southern region \u2014 and The Twelve.<\/p>\n

He still has two other unreleased projects upcoming \u2014 Godzilla x Kong: Supernova and The Last Resort.<\/p>\n

– with BANG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman and Laura Dern have teamed up to remember their late friend Sam Neill. The Kiwi actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,10466,134],"class_list":["post-832938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-gossip","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}