Hello, Keith … What’s your favorite English expression? ClassicMacGruber
I’m positive they meant to say Kief? Or perhaps not? I get referred to as Kief in England greater than another place. I met some younger mother and father in about 2001 who had named their son Kiefer, however I’ve by no means met anybody referred to as Kiefer that's my age. As for my favorite British expression, there’s “bit and bobs”, which is absolutely candy and jogs my memory of my grandma, and “Oi!” which isn't technically British, however any time I am going “Oi!” it stops the room.
Does your twin sister have as many center names as you? emzsam
I’m Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland. She’s Rachel Elizabeth Maria Teresa Dorothy Isabelle Sutherland. We’ve by no means gotten a straight reply from our father as to why he was so beneficiant. I’ve all the time joked that he will need to have been in actual debt and advised individuals: “When you feed us on Tuesday, I’ll identify my son after you”, after which prolonged the provide to my sister.
How does being British have an effect on your outlook on life? LarboIreland
I've an innate want to beat the world.
Throughout your first look in The Simpsons, as an military colonel within the 18th season, Homer says: “Man, you’ve obtained an superior voice!” Do you agree? francolfc
I’m very grateful for my voice. I've benefitted genetically from my father who has obtained certainly one of the most superior voices of all time. He was doing the voiceover for these Volvo commercials and getting paid much more cash than I initially thought. So, as a joke, I advised his agent that I may do a extremely good Donald Sutherland for half the cash. I don’t assume my father thought it was very humorous, however I believed it was hysterical.
Has your father influenced your appearing profession selections? evandane
It’s laborious to think about one other actor who’s been as prolific and made movies as numerous as Atypical Individuals, Don’t Look Now, Fellini’s Casanova, Bertolucci’s 1900 and The Starvation Video games. His affect was to make my profession as diversified and fascinating as attainable, which he taught me by doing, not by saying, which was actually cool.
What do you bear in mind of your grandfather, politician Tommy Douglas, who moved from Falkirk in Scotland and helped to deliver common healthcare to Canada?Haigin88
From after I was six or seven, my sister and I'd spend six weeks in the summertime with my mom’s mother and father, my grandma and grandpa. I've extremely fond reminiscences of sitting within the gallery on the Home of Commons in Ottawa, watching him give these nice speeches. When he was completed, he would sneak as much as the gallery and produce us a hotdog. I used to be conscious of how necessary he was in Canadian politics, however he was additionally my grandpa. He was extremely supportive. I used to be scholastically challenged and he advised me to not get down on myself. Once I was 14, he taught me to drive in a carpark. He was one of many kindest individuals in my life. He died after I was 18, so I miss him very a lot.
Do you're feeling extra snug as a musician than an actor?sey_more_j
No. You inhabit two very various things. As an actor, I’m inhabiting a personality, so innately, it’s not snug as a result of it’s not you. If I’m on stage and explaining to a room stuffed with strangers that I wrote this music as a result of I had a damaged coronary heart, and other people begin laughing … what’s plan B? You’re counting on the great religion of others, in order that’s not very snug, both. I believe it’s secure to say I’m fairly uncomfortable doing each.
You’ve mentioned you dislike watching your personal motion pictures and TV reveals. How about your singing? emzsam
While you’ve obtained 40, or 50 songs, sooner or later you’re going to begin listening to your personal stuff, simply to recollect it. Once I’m watching a film or a tv present I’m in … it’s not that I hate it, however I've a really robust picture of what I’m making an attempt to create, and generally I don’t see what was in my creativeness. Stand By Me was an ideal instance. I actually felt that I had not performed that character correctly. However individuals would come as much as me and say in any other case, so I realised what is obstructing me from having fun with my characters – and I do know this sounds moronic – is that they appear and sound like me.
I learn that Stand By Me labored so nicely since you genuinely intimidated the 4 youthful actors. Was that aware? Hoppo
I don’t know the place that story comes from. I used to be 18, they have been 12, so we didn’t hang around collectively. We have been capturing in Oregon, and I used to be off in Portland doing … no matter I did at evening. I bear in mind working strains with River Phoenix. If their solely contact with me was within the scenes, I perceive why they could have felt slightly threatened. However I actually wasn’t going to bully a bunch of little kids for a movie.
Did you ever meet that muscly singer who performs the saxophone within the seashore social gathering rock band in The Misplaced Boys? JSpicoli
Yeah – Tim Cappello. He was Tina Turner’s saxophone participant. The Misplaced Boys had this nice, deliberate, rock’n’roll soundtrack with Echo and the Bunnymen, Roger Daltrey … all these cool acts of the time. And he was certainly one of them.
How usually do you pull out: “Maggots, Michael. You’re consuming maggots” while you’re at a Chinese language restaurant with buddies? TamaIti
It hasn’t occurred to me however now I would.
You have been very humorous in 1992’s Twin Peaks: Hearth Stroll With MeHaigin88
Not on objective! Do I get provided a lot comedy? No, I don't. It’s not that I can’t learn the joke and discover the punchline. I simply get so nervous that no person’s going to giggle that comedy is one thing that I’ve by no means coveted, and it’s prevented me, too. Would I wish to be humorous? My God, yeah. Whether or not or not I’m succesful on cue may endlessly stay to be seen.
What prompted you to maneuver to TV when Netflix didn’t even exist?Istanbul_78
Some tv reveals have been already higher than the flicks. ER, NYPD Blue, The Sopranos, The West Wing, Intercourse and the Metropolis … 24 was proper in there, so I obtained extremely fortunate. Stephen Hopkins, who directed the primary season of 24, was a extremely good pal of mine, and helped persuade me. Plus, the movies I used to be being provided weren’t superb.
Did you tackle the function of Tom Kirkman in Designated Survivor simply so Jack Bauer may lastly get into the Oval Workplace? TheOracleNo1
I want I have been that intelligent. I appreciated the concept of somebody changing into president who didn’t undergo the method. When you’re keen to place your self by way of that strategy of changing into president, you’re in all probability not the individual for the job. I appreciated the concept – very very similar to in 1939’s Mr Smith Goes to Washington – somebody is simply pulled out of the group to change into president who will strategy politics purely from widespread sense. So, that’s the intense reply. It will’ve been very totally different if Jack Bauer had proven up, I'd have let him within the Oval Workplace, and we'd have talked about how a lot we thought we appeared like one another.
I’ve gotta ask, any likelihood of extra Jack Bauer?TheSableHoundReturns
I’ve discovered to say: by no means say by no means. But when the writers are going give you a good suggestion, they higher do it fast, as a result of I’m slowing down. Time is catching up and the bones are getting brittle. Perhaps they need to reboot it with new characters and Jack Bauer by some means will get out of China and that storyline’s resolved. I’m open to all of it. 24 was certainly one of my nice experiences in life and if there’s a wise, clever approach to end it – or a minimum of end my involvement – I’m open to that. I’ve additionally needed to learn to reply to the identify Jack, as a result of, just like the reader within the first query who obtained my identify fallacious, individuals simply go: Jack! I used to be simply settling in my seat on a airplane and this girl leaned over and mentioned: “I really feel a lot safer now that you just’re sitting subsequent to me.” I took a beat and mentioned: “I don’t know why. Everybody who sits subsequent to me dies.” I used to be joking, however I’m undecided she knew methods to take it.
Why doesn’t Jack ever say goodbye to Chloe on the telephone?Haigin88
Every thing’s method too pressing. With Jack Bauer, every part’s vocal. As Kiefer, I'd say [takes sips of water]: “Ooh, I actually would love that tumbler of water.” Jack Bauer would say [swigs water]: “I want that tumbler of water.” He by no means says goodbye however you'll discover that he does say please and thanks, which was by no means written into the script. I don’t know what it's about tv individuals, however they're extremely rude. In order that was my large contribution.
What’s your favorite merchandise from Greggs?prometheus3
Plain sausage roll. I've individuals within the band and crew who get all sophisticated with steak this and bacon that … Ugh! Sausage roll, straightforward, executed, out and in. The good factor is that it doesn’t matter if it’s been sitting there for six hours, it nonetheless tastes the identical. Get the sausage roll, there shall be zero disappointment.
As proud proprietor of a 24 tattoo on my again, has a fan ever displayed any ink that has terrified you? Ajyates33
No, not terrifying. I imply, I’ve obtained Mickey Mouse with a machine gun studying a e-book referred to as How you can Kill on my arm, however I believe that’s cute and humorous. Each tour, I get a tattoo on the finish. I can’t consider a tattoo store I’ve been in that hasn’t had The Misplaced Boys on the wall. If individuals have gotten a tattoo as a result of they’ve loved one thing I did: thanks very a lot.
This text was amended on 1 February 2022 as a result of an earlier model incorrectly mentioned that Sutherland’s new album was out on Pheromone Recordings. The truth is it’s on Cooking Vinyl.
Kiefer Sutherland’s new album Bloor Road is out now on Cooking Vinyl.
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