Kiefer Sutherland

This post contains major spoilers for the first two episodes of "Rabbit Hole." If you've watched the first two episodes of Paramount+'s new thriller, ...

"They play it to the hilt," Ficarra said about the co-stars. Dance also shared that he is "a huge fan" of Sutherland's. "And the one common denominator that you'll find in all his work is just how much weight he brings to the role. "I mean, I love Charles Dance, I've always wanted to work with him, but Kiefer was first to the party on that one [...] I think he knew him a little bit from before this, and we immediately realized that [Dance was] perfect." Ben is a major character in the series, and it turns out that Dance was at the top of Sutherland's list to play the part. "I doubt that there would've been a better person to be doing this character in this series than Kiefer," he shared.

Kiefer Sutherland wanted to play corporate espionage operative John Weir in "Rabbit Hole" because the character is plunged from a position of great power to ...

The more informed we are, the better off we are and I'm probably going to have to get a computer now that I said that." All of a sudden, I was the guy who liked doing 24 episodes a year. "In the right hands, technology can be really, really dangerous as well as it can be really helpful and really good. I was just happy to have a job and then just incredibly happy that it lasted a decade and I could watch my daughters grow up," he said. "I had no idea what I was doing. "There was just this shift of where the work was. That's what I think is the really scary part," he said. He also has been recording country music and touring with The Kiefer Sutherland Band in recent years. I don't struggle with it the way I've watched my children and grandchildren struggle with it." I've got a little library card and I can get through my day the way I always have. It's just something that I've been aware of in my career that those are great opportunities." I write in cursive," he added.

Paramount+ invites you to fall down a "Rabbit Hole" with Kiefer Sutherland. Will you follow TV's erstwhile Jack Bauer on this twisty journey?

John slips away/evades a mounted cop, only to later arrive outside his loft building just in time to see the top floors explode in a ball of fire, with at least two of his associates inside. Valence asks John to do the thing he does, on a job that requires an extra level of discretion, before handing him an envelope with the details.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-recap-1x01-1.jpg) And there in the house’s basement, we see Treasury Department investigator Homm very much alive but bound to a chair. One of John’s associates, posing as a dog walker, uses her herd of pups to nudge the CEO closer to Homm, while another discreetly drops an envelope at Homm’s feet. Then, as John grabs a cab, he grows convinced that he is being followed — a suspicion he shares with Agent Jo Madi of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Unit, an apparent longtime adversary who is waiting for him outside his destination. He barks some orders into his phone and storms off.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-1x01-1.jpg)

Corporate espionage is the new terrorism for the "24" and "Designated Survivor" star in an intense and timely new thriller.

What I thought was really interesting — it’s a real testament to the writing skill of John and Glenn — is that you have a thriller that is dynamic enough to have the stakes being life or death. I noticed that she was doing it and I didn’t know why. It was a great lesson that I learned from her on that film. The thing that I was most interested in was having a character that was going to go from a place of real strength and confidence and do a 180-degree turn to where they were vulnerable and weak. Sometimes, it’s interesting, if it was just there for me, it helped inform me about what I wanted to do and it doesn’t matter that anybody else knows about it or sees anything. That really is a testament to their writing skill and something I was so glad to be able to be a part of, because you and I both know that no one’s knocking down my door to get me to do their next comedy. I swore once to make a point in the scene, and I could’ve found seven different words to do that as well. So it’s a fascinating thing and I’m sure there will be some investors on Wall Street that will watch this show and it might change their point of view about what to do with their money and how to protect it. I wish I was that clever, so I don’t get too exotic with my finances, but I’m certainly aware of the fact that the FDIC only protects $250,000 per account. So those were the things that I found really interesting from an acting point of view. In this case, what was important to my client was a financial entity in the market. It’s the manipulation of the truth of anything that is important to you.

"To all the people that I had fight sequences with before, my hat's off to you," the actor says of taking his lumps in his new Paramount+ series.

And the reasons that she starts to help him reminds me much more of the relationship in “The Bourne Identity,” where it is a semi-attraction and Stockholm Syndrome kind of wedged into one. And [in “Rabbit Hole”], they kind of hit it off out of the gate and yet they both know they shouldn’t because this is a really screwed-up situation. And she’s got one of the greatest senses of timing, and one of the greatest deadpan looks I’ve ever seen. We certainly use it as a tool in the context of our show. (Laughs) In “24,” I got to do all the beating, and in “Rabbit Hole” I get beat up all the time. She confidently walks out the door with half a leaf blower sticking out of her pants and I’m like, “Well, I guess confidence does make up for a lot.” I was watching the other day where a woman was stealing a leaf blower and she put it in the back of her pants. And two feet of the leaf blower is still popping the back of her pants, she can’t quite get her jacket over it and she gets away. When they pitched him on a series that’s a throwback to ’70s conspiracy thrillers “Three Days of the Condor” and “Marathon Man” and “The Parallax View,” he was fully on board. And the first big fight sequence I had in “Rabbit Hole,” I get hit from behind. He’s kind of like, “Oh, do we really have to do this?” For one thing, it’s been 22 years since “24” first premiered and Weir is not the action dynamo that Bauer was.