Few actors committed as ferociously.
Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.
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How do you know youre dealing with one of the all-time great actors?
When they die, you dont know where to start.
Despite the first-person qualifier, this is as close to a statement of fact as youll find.
Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.
Donald Sutherland was great and beloved.
Instead those parts stood alone, unique and apart from every other Sutherland role.
He seemed special from the moment he broke through in the late 1960s.
He never entirely abandoned the just-hitchhiked-in-from-the-commune, mustachioed-brother-ofTom BakerinDr.
Sutherland originally played the scene with Calvin disintegrating into sobs.
Redford said no, then changed his mind three months after production had wrapped.
Id have to play Marys part … would you mind doing it again?
So we reshot it.
Thats me acting against Bob Redford there.
He was, quite simply, one of the best ever to do it.
ConsiderOrdinary People, the Best Picture winner for 1980.
OnEntertainment Weeklys list of the 25 worst Oscar snubs for acting, this one came in at No.
You could call it blatant injustice.
In quite a few years, his not-nominated performances were as good as or better than whatever won.
Channing deservedly got nominated for Best Actress, but it was Sutherland as the husband (again!)
She looked at him for a bit and said finally, Your face has got character.
I was in depression for a year.
Enough moviegoers disagreed to make Sutherland one of the greatest oddball leading-man crushes in cinema.
(Remember his caddish professor inAnimal House?)
It was the way he looked at his leading ladies: mesmerized, moonstruck.
It sometimes seemed like he played things flirty even when the part wasnt necessarily written that way.
Its impossible to read quotes from Donald Sutherland without hearing his honeyed bourbon voice saying them.
