But I like it being in my cupboard."Neill's dulcet tones would regularly pop up in animated fare; he would be a penguin in The Magic Pudding, an owl in Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, a quokka in Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal or a disgusting alien leader in terminally online Adult Swim cartoon Rick and Morty.When pressed on how he managed to successfully embody such a breadth of characters and tones, Neill's answer was simple."As an actor, you're there to serve … you're there to serve the script, you're there to serve the director, you're there to serve the story," he told ABC's Australian Story in 2020."And I like the idea of service."Stuck in self-isolation when filming for Jurassic World: Dominion was stalled at the first reports of the COVID-19 pandemic, Neill once again turned to service the only way he knew how: by entertaining.A week after the World Health Organization officially classified a global pandemic, Neill was posting vignettes to his social media accounts about his freshly laundered shoes, giving them a self-congratulatory sniff, to the delight of his hundreds of thousands of followers.His early COVID videos also featured Radiohead sing-a-longs, live readings of AA Milne, discussions about his back catalogue and more than a couple of gnome videos, with most including Neill calling for calm and for people to check in (virtually) with loved ones."Human contact is everything And there will be mining all around us, and that'll be the end."Neill's push against the mine was so fierce it attracted comments from New Zealand Minister for Resources Shane Jones, who accused Neill of being "wrong and anti-Kiwi".The actor has also used his high profile to show support for other social issues