Hour 19 of 24
First, let’s get to what will surely be Eli Cash’s “You Must Suspend Disbelief�? moment: James Heller sending his car hurtling headlong into the black, Pacificy goodness. There are so many things that could have gone wrong with a stunt like that, it’s not even funny. Yes, Sydney Bristow survived a similar stunt on “Alias years ago, but she was driving her car off a pier six feet off the ground and landed on her wheels, as opposed to flying off a gigantic mountainside and landing on her roof. And yet, despite the laundry list of things that could have gone wrong, I’m convinced that Heller is alive, for more reasons than you think… @
Hey, Kiefer… congrats, by the way on having one of the more successful “My father is…” careers in Hollywood. By that I mean I think you’ve done a terrific job carving out both an identity for yourself as an artist and a body of work that’s completely clear of the fact that Donald Sutherland is your dad. Tell us, why do you think it is that the public has embraced your bad boy roles as much as your traditional protagonists?”
“Hey man, thanks for saying that… Well, the trick, I think, to keeping the public in love with you… or at least to preventing them from disliking you… as a celebrity… And I think this holds true for all kinds of celebs, not just actors… is going places they would like to, but can’t. Everybody has a desire to be a hero, to feel themselves at the summit of popularity, to be loved by all, to be the guy who came through in a crisis. But we all fantasize, also, about indulging darker impulses. When I do that for the public in some of my darker performances, I always make sure we can all respect each other in the morning… if ya catch my drift.”
