GQ just posted this 20 minute interview with Kiefer reflecting back on his long career



I know 90% of you here will likely not watch a 20 minute YouTube video on this forum.

So here are the timecodes on the topics he talks about. He did this interview to promote his newest movie "The Contractor"

Intro 0:00
Stand By Me 0:20
The Lost Boys 02:31
24 0:4:31
A Few Good Men 08:16
A Time to Kill 11:20
Dark City 13:31
Designated Survivor 15:08
The First Lady 16:38
The Contractor 19:00


Regarding 24, he says he's open to playing Jack Bauer again. He says the story is unresolved

You can forward to the time code to hear what he says.

It's been 8 years since the original 24 ended. I don't count Legacy. I'd like him to do it one last time and I've read that FOX is open to it, but it's really a matter of a good writer/showrunner giving Kiefer a good script.


Just to list a few of my favorite movies that Kiefer was in, since I intend this to be an appreciation thread and not just a 24 news thread. Because there is really nothing to go on with 24 right now.

Phone Booth
Young Guns
Flatliners
The Vanishing
The Lost Boys

He made a movie in the late 90s that was made for HBO called "After Alice" aka "Eye of the Killer" and I thought that was an underrated thriller.



Obviously with TV, 24 is my favorite

The fugitive reboot series that he did for Quibi, but is now on the Roku channel was also pretty good IMO



I did like the 1st season of Designated Survivor, but it became a pretty dull weekly political procedural for seasons 2 and 3.

I think the first Kiefer appearance I ever saw was “Eye for an Eye” (with Sally Field). Since I was a kid, he freaked me out.

Then I saw “24” during its original broadcast run and the rest is history…

FOX should just do a two hour “24” TV movie every summer, die hard style. I don’t need more seasons or another spinoff series. Doesn’t require much commitment with a small TV budget.

I’ve always been a fan of Kiefer. As a kid I thought he was a creeper after Stand by Me and The Lost Boys but he changed my mind about him after his friendly turn in Young Guns I and II.

I also enjoyed him in The Cowboy Way and The Sentinel.

Oddly enough, I’ve only ever seen the first part of season one of 24. The show just never grabbed me.

My wife and I have been slowly making our way through Designated Survivor on Netflix. I appreciate Sutherland’s soft spoken and calm demeanor approach to the character.

Not a huge fan of his but A Few Good Men... as a whole and his role. Wow. His story in that video about it was great.

I forgot about Eye for an Eye. He was great playing a scumbag rapist child killer. He was creepy in that.

Kiefer had a small role on an Angelina Jolie movie called Taking Lives. I don’t recall much about it, but was disappointed.

and I also liked The Sentinel. He wasn’t the main star, but it’s probably the closest thing we’ll get to a 24 like action movie.

Mirrors was okay for a horror movie, I know most here probably didn’t see it, but Forsaken, a low budget Western that he did with his Dad was pretty decent.

Another one that doesn’t get mentioned much is Pompeii where he played a villain. He was so over the top in that, but I still found it entertaining.

I've always been a fan of Kiefers, 24 was great and I've been a big fan of Young Guns and Lost boys since I was a kid. My favorite's of his are Flashback, Desert Saints, Dark City and The Three Musketeers. Hes a really good actor and I always try to check out his movies when I see him in something. His western Forsaken with his dad I thought was really decent too. And he was such a skeevy guy even for a killer in Freeway

Suck my fat one you cheap dime store hood.

Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Eye for an Eye. "Tough titty said the kitty but the milk's still good." He scared the fuck out of me as a kid. For him then to go on to be the star of one of my all-time favorite shows...it was weird!

If 24 were to return in some way, I think it might just be on Hulu.

Young Guns, The Three Musketeers, Dark City, Flatliners, The Vanishing...
Kiefer Sutherland has made some great movies, back in the day.
24 was a great show, one of my favorites, but Touch or Designated Survivor were not that great. I'm glad that his L.A. Confidential show didn't go further than the pilot, I watched it and network TV wasn't the right place for the project. It would have been too watered down

I went to the Super Bowl in San Diego in 1998. The one where Elway beat Favre.

Hung out at hotel where the Broncos were staying in La Jolla quite a bit so I could meet and get photos with a lot of the players, which I did.

There are always lots of movie and music stars at this game, and I saw a guy in the hotel lobby that looked familiar but this was during the period when he wasn’t a big deal anymore.

Yeah it was Kiefer and got to chat with him for 10 minutes while he waited on a car to pick him up.

He was really cool and nice. I got so wrapped up chatting with him that I forgot to even ask for an autograph or a picture.

This was about a month before Dark City came out, and a couple years before 24.

I was surprised at how much taller I was than him.

I watched a movie a couple days that I'd never even heard of before my gf mentioned it. Freeway.

Entertaining flick. Kiefer plays a serial killer

That was the twisted take on Little Red Riding Hood wasn’t it? I remember watching it on cable in the late 90s.

I just remember there was this absolutely idiotic letter to Parade magazine where the person was asking where Kiefer got his seemingly newfound confidence in Sentinel, and the editor was like “Uhhh 24? He’s lliterally been doing that for five years.”

I bet the odds of him landing a lead role in a theatrical movie today are the same as fining a hot girl at a Browns game.

I think more people know him more for 24 than movies since he probably peaked in the early 90's and not getting big roles anymore.

For a few years he even had a career in Rodeo. He made a rodeo movie as well, but like most of his movies after Truth or Consequences, N.M. and Dark City it wasn't very good. So starring in a TV show wasn't really that career set back it was considered back then. He still was one of the first "movie actors" who starred in a show in those days.

I became much more of a Kiefer fan with 24. Not to say that he couldn't give good performances, but he went through a period where he was very one note. He was that creepy guy or the serial killer guy quite often. He might have been effective at it, but it didn't allow his full range to show. Then he chased big success for a while and made a lot of middling Hollywood movies as a result.

To be honest, he still probably gets overlooked nowadays. He could probably really surprise people if he got the right role, but people will now probably default to serial killer or Jack Bauer. To be fair, Bauer probably has higher body counts than most serial killers.

Ah, you guys beat me to the punch with mentioning Freeway. Although let's face it, that's Reese Witherspoon's show.

And while this is an "appreciation" thread, I really want to take yet another opportunity to give a thumbs-down to his directorial effort Truth or Consequences NM. It literally was like taking every Quentin Tarantino script and throwing it into a blender. I can't recall it exactly, but I know there was something about two hit men who discuss pop culture stuff, but one is an undercover cop. Someone thinks they're getting a briefcase of money but instead it turns out to be drugs so they get the idea of selling it cheap. They kidnap a family in an RV to get away. And there's a torture scene set to an oldies hit. Something like that. Really bad film in every way.

Touch was ok but there is a reason he is probably not in movies anymore since he is a average actor.

I hope his FDR on the First Ladies is not unintentionally funny.

Since I wrapped 24 last week and I needed a Kiefer fix to get over the withdrawal of that show, I just started Designated Survivor S1 on Netflix.

The 1st season was a pretty entertaining serialized conspiracy thriller. The 2nd season is just so-so. I never finished the final season that Netflix ordered after ABC cancelled it. After season 1, it became more of a political crisis of the week drama. There was a lot of behind the scenes creative problems with the series. They changed showrunners multiple times and Kiefer always had 1st approval on scripts and who they would hire on the show.

I posted this in the show thread, but here's his new series Rabbit Hole that's going to be on Paramount Plus next month

Yeah, I saw the trailer for this the other day and it does look cool.

Kiefer's family is considered acting royalty up here, with his father Donald Sutherland and mother Shirley Douglas. He was nominated for a Genie Award (The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television) for Best Performance in a Leading Role for the first movie he starred in when he was 16 years old. People often forget that he was engaged to Julia Roberts at one time (until she ran off with his Lost Boys co-star Jason Patric two days before the wedding). He's also an accomplished musician, as well. I would have enjoyed seeing a Twin Peaks spin-off series featuring his character Sam Stanley and Chris Isaak's Chester Desmond from Fire Walk With Me.

I'm on S1 E11 of DS and it's awesome.