Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland is a British-born Canadian actor, producer, director, and singer-songwriter. He has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox series 24. He also starred as Martin Bohm in the Fox drama Touch and provided the facial motion capture and English voices of Big Boss and Venom Snake in the video games Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth21 December 1966
CityLondon, England
CountryCanada
We saw that the music industry was changing and we felt that it needed to change. We have wanted to do this for a very long time.
I think the show is working. I think the character is growing on many levels. I think one thing that we're all discovering is that every season has impacted another, and the character has grown, and the character is allowed to carry with him what he has suffered the year before.
This time, something happens to Jack on a very personal level. Because he's presumed dead, a lot of the boundaries he was restricted by -- by virtue of who he was working for -- don't exist now. And he's mad.
I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
For me to have an opportunity to work with someone like that, it's a fantastic learning experience.
I don't have to follow your orders. I don't work here anymore.
We saw so many phenomenal Rock 'n Roll bands that were not getting signed. We really needed to start looking outside the box.
My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
The timing issue is something the writers are working on right now. But the sky's the limit at that point for them, because we would not be restricted by the time element.
First, there was darkness, then came the Strangers,
You're going to tell me what I want to know. It's just a question of how much you want it to hurt.
Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.
There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.