Former Hollywood mogul finds fulfilment in a Cambodian rubbish dump
by The Daily Eye Team November 5 2014, 6:55 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secsScott Neeson left the movie industry for Southeast Asia and set up the Cambodian Children’s Fund
The Apostle Paul’s epiphany came in a blinding flash on the road to Damascus. Scott Neeson — the former president of 20th Century Fox International — had his while standing on a garbage dump outside Phnom Penh.
The problem with epiphanies is that no one really wants one because the results can be drastic.
How drastic?
When Neeson first surveyed the horror of that garbage dump, with children living and dying on its 11-hectares of waste and filth, he couldn’t have known he would soon be living on the edge of the dump himself — Hollywood and one of the great glamour jobs in the world left behind.
Neeson had been travelling in Asia in 2003 after leaving 20th Century Fox, where he had made more than 200 films in 10 years, including Titanic and Braveheart.