Kiefer Sutherland

This post contains major spoilers for the first two episodes of "Rabbit Hole." If you've watched the first two episodes of Paramount+'s new thriller, ...

"They play it to the hilt," Ficarra said about the co-stars. Dance also shared that he is "a huge fan" of Sutherland's. "And the one common denominator that you'll find in all his work is just how much weight he brings to the role. "I mean, I love Charles Dance, I've always wanted to work with him, but Kiefer was first to the party on that one [...] I think he knew him a little bit from before this, and we immediately realized that [Dance was] perfect." Ben is a major character in the series, and it turns out that Dance was at the top of Sutherland's list to play the part. "I doubt that there would've been a better person to be doing this character in this series than Kiefer," he shared.

Kiefer Sutherland wanted to play corporate espionage operative John Weir in "Rabbit Hole" because the character is plunged from a position of great power to ...

The more informed we are, the better off we are and I'm probably going to have to get a computer now that I said that." All of a sudden, I was the guy who liked doing 24 episodes a year. "In the right hands, technology can be really, really dangerous as well as it can be really helpful and really good. I was just happy to have a job and then just incredibly happy that it lasted a decade and I could watch my daughters grow up," he said. "I had no idea what I was doing. "There was just this shift of where the work was. That's what I think is the really scary part," he said. He also has been recording country music and touring with The Kiefer Sutherland Band in recent years. I don't struggle with it the way I've watched my children and grandchildren struggle with it." I've got a little library card and I can get through my day the way I always have. It's just something that I've been aware of in my career that those are great opportunities." I write in cursive," he added.

Paramount+ invites you to fall down a "Rabbit Hole" with Kiefer Sutherland. Will you follow TV's erstwhile Jack Bauer on this twisty journey?

John slips away/evades a mounted cop, only to later arrive outside his loft building just in time to see the top floors explode in a ball of fire, with at least two of his associates inside. Valence asks John to do the thing he does, on a job that requires an extra level of discretion, before handing him an envelope with the details.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-recap-1x01-1.jpg) And there in the house’s basement, we see Treasury Department investigator Homm very much alive but bound to a chair. One of John’s associates, posing as a dog walker, uses her herd of pups to nudge the CEO closer to Homm, while another discreetly drops an envelope at Homm’s feet. Then, as John grabs a cab, he grows convinced that he is being followed — a suspicion he shares with Agent Jo Madi of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Unit, an apparent longtime adversary who is waiting for him outside his destination. He barks some orders into his phone and storms off.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-1x01-1.jpg)

Corporate espionage is the new terrorism for the "24" and "Designated Survivor" star in an intense and timely new thriller.

What I thought was really interesting — it’s a real testament to the writing skill of John and Glenn — is that you have a thriller that is dynamic enough to have the stakes being life or death. I noticed that she was doing it and I didn’t know why. It was a great lesson that I learned from her on that film. The thing that I was most interested in was having a character that was going to go from a place of real strength and confidence and do a 180-degree turn to where they were vulnerable and weak. Sometimes, it’s interesting, if it was just there for me, it helped inform me about what I wanted to do and it doesn’t matter that anybody else knows about it or sees anything. That really is a testament to their writing skill and something I was so glad to be able to be a part of, because you and I both know that no one’s knocking down my door to get me to do their next comedy. I swore once to make a point in the scene, and I could’ve found seven different words to do that as well. So it’s a fascinating thing and I’m sure there will be some investors on Wall Street that will watch this show and it might change their point of view about what to do with their money and how to protect it. I wish I was that clever, so I don’t get too exotic with my finances, but I’m certainly aware of the fact that the FDIC only protects $250,000 per account. So those were the things that I found really interesting from an acting point of view. In this case, what was important to my client was a financial entity in the market. It’s the manipulation of the truth of anything that is important to you.

"To all the people that I had fight sequences with before, my hat's off to you," the actor says of taking his lumps in his new Paramount+ series.

And the reasons that she starts to help him reminds me much more of the relationship in “The Bourne Identity,” where it is a semi-attraction and Stockholm Syndrome kind of wedged into one. And [in “Rabbit Hole”], they kind of hit it off out of the gate and yet they both know they shouldn’t because this is a really screwed-up situation. And she’s got one of the greatest senses of timing, and one of the greatest deadpan looks I’ve ever seen. We certainly use it as a tool in the context of our show. (Laughs) In “24,” I got to do all the beating, and in “Rabbit Hole” I get beat up all the time. She confidently walks out the door with half a leaf blower sticking out of her pants and I’m like, “Well, I guess confidence does make up for a lot.” I was watching the other day where a woman was stealing a leaf blower and she put it in the back of her pants. And two feet of the leaf blower is still popping the back of her pants, she can’t quite get her jacket over it and she gets away. When they pitched him on a series that’s a throwback to ’70s conspiracy thrillers “Three Days of the Condor” and “Marathon Man” and “The Parallax View,” he was fully on board. And the first big fight sequence I had in “Rabbit Hole,” I get hit from behind. He’s kind of like, “Oh, do we really have to do this?” For one thing, it’s been 22 years since “24” first premiered and Weir is not the action dynamo that Bauer was.

The one-time Jack Bauer is having the time of his life alongside Charles Dance in this high-tension conspiracy drama – and then it turns on a dime and goes ...

But this is the sort of thing that can easily be ironed out. Maybe he can tell me WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!” at what must presumably be a particularly disconcerted priest – but this is the point where the loopiness ramps up beyond all comprehension. And there’s a version of Rabbit Hole where this is all that happens. If there is one criticism of Rabbit Hole, it’s that it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Weir is essentially a paranoid spy who knows that someone is on to him, and he spends much of the episode shooting concerned glances into his rearview mirror. Is this a coded way of saying that I wish 24 was still on TV?

Kiefer Sutherland's David Powers, one of the lead vampires, might not be the best horror villains of all time, but few, if any, look as cool and stylish as this ...

[Stream The Fugitive on The Roku Channel.](https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100412901-13571892?sid=cinemablend-us-1253021154247106300&url=https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/29251307fbed5058a3f93643a0b60ca7/the-fugitive) (opens in new tab) [canceled by ABC after two seasons](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2418661/kiefer-sutherlands-designated-survivor-and-more-cancelled-by-abc) and later revived by Netflix (only to be [given the ax again](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2474441/how-designated-survivors-newest-showrunner-changed-things-up-for-season-3-on-netflix)), saw Sutherland’s character in a number of tense and exciting situations, and did a fun job of playing with its terrifying premise. [use the presidential line of succession as a plot device](https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2562069/xxx-state-of-the-union-and-other-movies-with-insane-plots-centering-on-the-line-of-succession), Designated Survivor follows Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) as he comes to terms with being the leader of the free world after everyone else in the government is killed in the bombing of the U.S. This time around, the show centers on Mike Ferro (Boyd Holbrook) a parolee who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time during a terrorist attack. [all-time great performances by William Hurt](https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/broadcast-news-and-other-great-william-hurt-movies) and Jennifer Connelly. [Quibi ceased operations in 2020](https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/quibi-officially-shuts-down-1234842926/), you can still watch Kiefer Sutherland’s outstanding take on Detective Clay Bryce on The Roku Channel. The second-generation actor kills it (quite literally) in his portrayal of Old West icon Doc Scurlock. After the man who hired them and treated them as his own is gunned down, a group of the misguided youth, led by Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) seek vengeance against those responsible for the misjustice. The incredibly prolific and charismatic actor has long been incredibly fascinating whenever in front of the camera, which may just be the case for his latest project, the [Paramount+ original series](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2570823/the-best-paramount-original-tv-shows-so-far), Rabbit Hole. [Rent/buy The Lost Boys on Amazon. Joel Schumacher’s 1990 psychological horror thriller, Flatliners, centers on a group of medical students as they set out to solve the mystery of death. The movie follows brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam Emerson (Corey Haim) as they move to Santa Clara, California, only to discover that the seaside town carries a dark and deadly secret: motorcycle-riding, leather jacket-wearing vampires.

In the eight part series Rabbit Hole, 56-year-old Sutherland plays John Weir, a man who plans elaborate espionage plots to help businesses get the upper hand in ...

I phoned up a couple of stunt guys that I did 24 with and I told them I just finally realised how hard it was to take the first punch – and I thanked them for their work!” “I’ve always said that I thought that the show was something that could and should continue on, certainly past me. I had such a great time making this show – I’m hoping that people enjoy it and so we get to make more.” “Jack Bauer would initiate a lot of the physical contact that he would have. “I’ve learned not to say no,” he says when asked if he’d play Jack again. I think for the first couple of fights that I lost, I maybe took it a little personally. And no matter how serious they might be, I think we have a natural defence mechanism inside of us that we use humour to kind of deflect a lot of things. “I’ll be absolutely honest with you, no one was knocking down my door to do a comedy,” he says. And so to have it as part of this content in the context of this genre, I think it was really important.” “I don’t think my interests lie in broad comedy,” he says. However, he finds himself embroiled in a deadly conspiracy that leads to friends dying and John on the run, determined to clear his name. “There’s a really kind of wonderful, reluctant love story between mine and Meta Golding’s character,” Sutherland says.