For more like this interview with Kiefer Sutherland from City A.M. – The Magazine, tap here Kiefer Sutherland glugs me out a whisky as we settle into a vast sofa that threatens to envelop us both, leaving us somewhere between sitting and reclining.
We’re in the London headquarters of the Gibson guitar company in a private room accessed through a hidden panel in the back of a red phone box. All four walls are lined with rows of shining guitars. I could hear Sutherland before I could see him; between interviews he “decompresses” by jamming on his own Gibson, playing songs he wrote for his self-titled band.
The star – who was born in Britain, raised in Canada and lives in Los Angeles – is ostensibly here to talk about his newest venture, Red Bank Whisky, but the conversation veers between topics as diverse as the fears that come with getting older (he’s 57 now), the conflict in Gaza, the time his childhood home was raided by armed FBI agents and the perilous state of Hollywood. From the corner of my eye I can see his press lady shift uncomfortably in her seat as the conversation enters controversial territory but Sutherland answers every question in the same laconic, gravelly drawl. You would expect nothing less from the enfant terrible of 1980s and 90s Hollywood, star of cult classics Lost Boys, Flatliners and Stand By Me (on the set of which he taught River Phoenix to play guitar), former fiance to Julia Roberts (a relationship that hit the rocks amid rumours of .
