Donald Sutherlandis one of the most celebrated talents in Hollywood.
The Guardianreported that one of Sutherland’s first film roles was inDr.
Terror’s House of Horrorsin 1965.
And Inge said, No, he stays.
‘Okay, well then he can’t have first billing!’
No, he gets first billing.
That was the beginning of our relationship."
From that point, Sutherland launched a career that’s spanned nearly six decades.
Here are some things you may not know about the actor.
“Standing behind my right shoulder, I’d watched my comatose body slide peacefully down a blue tunnel.
That same blue tunnel the near-dead always talk about.
Such a tempting journey.
No barking Cerberus to wake me.
Everything was going to be alright,” he recalled.
The downward journey slowed and stopped."
After that, Sutherland was flown to Charing Cross Hospital in England where he recovered for six weeks.
Then he was back to filming.
“I’d recovered.
Sort of,” he continued.
“I could walk and talk, but my brains were truly fried.
However, he actually had another passion which he almost pursued.
Rolling Stonereported that artistry runs in Sutherland’s family and he was an avid sculptor.
However, he revealed why it never could have worked out.
“I knew I never could be a sculptor.
“But me, I needed the theater.
Sutherland went on to work with Fellini inCasanova.
He went on to star inThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire, andMockingjay Part 1and2.
Notably, he’s played opposite Helen Mirren a number of times.
The intelligence, wit, and capability those two have is breathtaking.
I love Helen in every respect, in how she conducts herself in a press conference or an interview.
Everything about this business, Helen does to perfection.”
She’s the cigarette paper that holds the tobacco in the cigarette.”
He also campaigned for Barack Obama.
“I’ll say it three times: climate, climate, climate,” he shared.
“I realized it 20 years ago.
I started to see jellyfish where jellyfish had never been before.
