ACTOR SAYS
Hollywood A-lister and musician Kiefer Sutherland swears by a sausage roll and not just for the pastry’s taste... The 24 star, who was introduced to the UK chain Gregg’s staple by his bandmate, reckons the grease helps protect his vocal cords.
“Grease is not a good word, but there’s enough around a sausage roll to lubricate your voice quite well, and quite nicely,” he says.
“I’ve found it helpful on more than one occasion. We go there so much.”
But as the 57-year-old actor also prepares for two action films, Stone Cold Fox and Sierra Madre, he admits that it is harder to stay in shape now he is older.
And no, that’s not from all those sausage rolls he’s eating...
According to Kiefer, he burns all those calories off on stage during his energetic sets “pretty quick”.
“As you get older, you know, every 10 years it gets a little harder for the body to define muscle,” he says.
“It gets harder for the body to process... your metabolism changes. You have to make adjustments.
“I hate the feeling of the beginning of a workout. And I love the feeling when it’s done.
“I run a lot, and that’s kind of the foundation of everything. I’ve got my version of a lightweight workout there that hopefully keeps you trimmer – light weights, heavy rotation, things like that.”
Born into an acting dynasty in London in 1966, before moving to Canada, he has been acting for 40 years.
Dad Donald Sutherland, 88, starred in films Klute and Ordinary People, while his mum Shirley Douglas, was an activist and theatre actress, who died in 2020.
His grandad, Tommy Douglas, introduced national healthcare to Canada.
As a teenager, Kiefer appeared in Stand By Me and The Lost Boys as he turned 20, catapulting him into stardom, followed by other hit films like Young Guns.
For a while, he and Robert Downey Jr. were roommates, and his daughter Sarah is reportedly named after close friend Sarah Jessica Parker. But Kiefer is quick to reject suggestions of him – or Sarah, 36, who stars in sitcom Veep – being “Nepo babies”. The term is thrown at celebrities who are deemed to have opportunities thanks to parents.
“I just don’t understand the argument,” he scoffs. “When it says Joseph and Sons and they’re carpenters, nobody is getting up in arms that the father passed on the trade of carpentry.
“I grew up in the theatre with my mum – that’s what I knew. Am I going