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| A very sweet Donald interview ( about Kiefer ) | |
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| lorelai24 | Apr 4 2008, 09:13 PM Post #1 |
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![]() Kiefer's Dad Plots His Own Death Talk about emotional extremes. Donald Sutherland was on a proud-daddy high after his son, Kiefer, took home the best actor Emmy for 24 while he sat in the audience. The next morning, he was talking about his painful and devastating performance in Aurora Borealis as a debilitated elderly man sinking into dementia who wants to take his own life. Here's the irony. Playing out the worst nightmares of growing old turned out to be therapy for the 70-year-old actor. "I was incredibly depressed — almost suicidally depressed — before I took the role," Sutherland told me. "In fact, I had turned it down. Then my wife virtually insisted that I do it. Changing my mind, going through that ride, was such a joy and liberation that it ended up curing my depression." Sutherland reveals that as his character struggles to remain independent, he was reminded of his own father. "My dad was 89, and we had a young woman who was a caretaker for him," he remembers. "One day I heard her yell, and it was because my father had grabbed her bum. I said to him, 'You can't do that.' He replied, 'What are you gonna do, put me in jail?' You get to a point where age is freeing because you don't care. So I think the old man I play has a lot of my dad in him." When Sutherland's character faces the reality that he is losing his grip on life, he begs his grandson, played by Joshua Jackson, to help him commit suicide. "That resonated with me," he reveals. "I've read everything from Final Exit to whatever to prepare myself. I don't want to end up being kept alive unless it's me keeping myself alive. I have to find a way to get out. Obviously, you need to do it in association with your family, your kids. I think everybody you love should be a part of it. But I don't want to be around for a long time after I'm not supposed to be around anymore." Time for a change of pace. A broad grin lights up Sutherland's face as he abruptly produces an envelope. "Look at this!" he says. He opens it. The card inside reads, "And the Emmy goes to Kiefer Sutherland." "Kiefer grabbed the envelope along with his statue," Donald says. "He came running down the aisle and handed it to me." http://movies.go.com/moviesproxy/jeannewolf?columnid=848417 |
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