Kiefer Sutherland Talks About His Role on Touch as Martin Bohm

Kiefer Sutherland Talks About His Role on Touch as Martin Bohm


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Kiefer Sutherland Back on FOX in 'Touch'

Updated: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 9:25 AM MST
Published : Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 9:25 AM MST

Kiefer Sutherland has a new series coming to FOX, 

and we received a preview of it Wednesday night. It’s called "Touch."

Fox 10’s Alexis Vance sat down with him in a one-on-one recently.

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Kiefer Sutherland Talks Touch and the "Very Difficult Task" of a 24 Movie

Today 10:01 AM PST by JENNA MULLINS

Nobody panic: Jack Bauer is back! Well, Kiefer Sutherland is back...on TV. We'll have to wait a little bit longer for Bauer to save the world again, in the form of a 24 movie.

We talked with Sutherland at Fox's TCA Winners Walk, where he told us why Touch was the show to bring him back to the tube, and when fans can expect that big ol' 24 clock on the big screen…

"We're planning on starting the very end of April, the beginning of May," he reveals to us about the movie adaptation of 24. Hopefully it'll be all systems go by then, because even Sutherland has some qualms about transferring Jack Bauer to the big screen. "I believe very strongly—and I apologize, it's a very difficult task to take what we would do in a season, which would be 24 episodes, and try and condense it into two hours. And so it took us a little while to put that together, but I feel very strongly that we have ...I don't like to say anything is done until it's finished, but we should be starting in May."

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If Kiefer feels confident about it, that's good enough for us. Until May, we get to watch him save the world again in his new drama on Fox, Touch, a role so exciting, Kiefer couldn't say no to it.

"[The show] is based on a Chinese fable called The Red Thread, and in essence it means that all the people that were supposed to come in contact with each other over the course of a lifetime are connected loosely by a red thread around the ankle, and that thread can stretch and it can bend but it can't break," he tells us while we hang on every word. "And somehow in the last hundred years between the Industrial Revolution and the Technological Revolution, we've broken it. And my son is much more highly evolved than I am and can see where it is broken through math and through patterns, and he uses me as his father to try and put all of the pieces back together."

Très intriguing, no? Check out our full interview with Kiefer above, and you can catch a special preview event of Touch on Wednesday, Jan. 25 on Fox.

Are you excited for Kiefer's new show? And do you think 24 could or should be made into a movie?

—Reporting by Kristin Dos Santos

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Kiefer Sutherland Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live Jan 23, 2012

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Touch Review from The Wall Street Journal with Kiefer Sutherland

TOUCH Review from The Wall Street Journal
By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ

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"Touch" is the kind of series better seen than described. Particularly when one of the chief describers, show creator Tim Kring ("Heroes"), puts out descriptions like the one that came with the review DVD, announcing that this work represents his fascination with "the theme of interconnectivity and global consciousness" and the attempt to put a positive message out into the world that we are more connected to each other than we ever knew.

Touch

Preview episode Wednesday,
Jan. 25 at 9 p.m. on Fox

Blood-freezing stuff. It's a relief to report that the aforementioned claptrap bears no resemblance to the high quality and tone of "Touch," whose preview episode shows every sign of a series likely to hold audiences in thrall. That's in part because of its complex story, and in part despite it.

But above all because of Kiefer Sutherland. He's the clarifying force that brings all the disparate aspects of this complicated storytelling together—that informs the whole mess with his wonderfully earthbound presence. No small feat. Mr. Sutherland plays Martin Bohm, widower and father of 10-year-old Jake (David Mazouz), an autistic child incapable of speech. Not, however, an ordinary autistic child, but one with the special power to perceive, through numbers, patterns in the world whose analysis will allow people on the far corners of the earth to make vital connections. In the preview episode (the series begins in March) the connections include a boy in Baghdad desperate to get money for a new family stove, a British man in search of vital personal material on his cellphone, the winner of a lottery in New York, and more. Still, it's Mr. Sutherland's portrayal of the father—unyielding in his effort to break through to his mute child and grasp what he's trying to say with his numbers—that is the heart of this story, the power likely to sustain this promising enterprise. 

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Kiefer Sutherland TOUCH: A Lot Going On Behind The Eyes

A Lot Going On Behind the Eyes

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Kiefer Sutherland, left, and David Mazouz in "Touch," 

having its premiere on Fox on Jan. 25.

By NEIL GENZLINGER

Published: January 11, 2012

WHEN, exactly, did Kiefer Sutherland gain access to my head?


Mr. Sutherland is returning to television this month in a Fox drama called “Touch” in which he plays the father of a 10-year-old boy who has never spoken and doesn’t communicate in any traditional way. That’s a world I know something about, since I too have such a child.

It’s a frustrating, anguishing place to live, full of challenges and conflicting emotions that are difficult to convey to an outsider. Yet in the “Touch” pilot, which will be broadcast Jan. 25, Mr. Sutherland and his young co-star, David Mazouz, did a pretty good job of convincing me that they know something about it too.

“Touch” was created by Tim Kring, whose previous shows include the much-loved “Heroes,” about ordinary people who discover they have superpowers. That lineage is clear in “Touch” because the mute boy, Jake, has a superpower of sorts: He has a relentless fascination with numbers and finds patterns that, if deciphered properly by his father, lead to connections among disparate people all over the globe. The pilot involves a British man’s lost cellphone, a broken oven in Baghdad, a lottery jackpot in New York, a sex worker in Tokyo and more.

Mr. Kring said that finding the right actor to play Jake wasn’t easy; the role requires an ability to affect the blank, isolated look often seen in autistic children, yet also to suggest there is a lot going on behind the eyes.

“David is an extraordinary child,” Mr. Kring said. “He is extremely focused, and you can see the internal life in him. He’s also very still. Most kids we auditioned, you’d catch moments here and there between their general fidgetiness.”

The casting was made all the more difficult by the fact that Jake is silent to the other characters but not to viewers: his thoughts are heard in voice-over, and are fairly complex for a 10-year-old.

“Because we hear his internal voice, we have an understanding of just how intelligent he is, so we had to cast someone who fit that,” Mr. Kring said. “Some of the kids, they had wonderful-looking faces, but you just could not imagine the very bright kid inside.”

Mr. Sutherland said David was the first of about two dozen children he read with during auditions. “There was just something really natural between the two of us,” he said, something that wasn’t there with those who came after. “Around the 25th kid I was like, ‘Would you guys just hire the first kid, please?’ ”

What makes his co-star right for the part? “David does an amazing thing where he is completely physically disconnected from you, but I always felt I could feel him listening,” Mr. Sutherland said.

The role of Jake presented one sort of acting challenge, but Mr. Sutherland, of course, has a lot to convey as well. Raising a child like Jake — or like my own, who has a disability called  Rett syndrome — requires letting go of a lot of traditional parental goals and peak experiences.

“There was a book that I got for Kiefer about parenting children with these kinds of disabilities,” Mr. Kring said. “I remember there was one chapter on something called chronic sorrow. Both Kiefer and I kind of focused on that.”

It’s a term coined in the 1960s by the sociologist Simon Olshansky to refer to the day-to-day grief parents of severely disabled children experience over the challenges they and their children face, the lost opportunities, the unforgiving future. Mr. Sutherland seems to find the essence of it in his character, Martin Bohm. This struggling father is a long way from Jack Bauer, the tough terrorism fighter of Mr. Sutherland’s best-known series, “24.” As Mr. Kring put it, when Martin is punched in the stomach in the pilot, “he reacts very much the way you or I would: he doubles over in pain.”

Being the parent of an uncommunicative child may entail sorrow, but it also requires not giving up on him, even if others do. The pilot introduces what Mr. Kring said would be a season-long struggle for Martin, a widower, to retain custody of the boy — institutionalization, for Martin, being something like throwing in the towel and acknowledging that there is no potential behind Jake’s intense gaze.

“Have you ever truly communicated with him?” a child services worker barks at Martin. “Does he even know who you are?” Maybe not, but a parent in Martin’s position constantly has to tell himself that those questions are irrelevant.

The problem with making a series about a family dealing with disability is not unlike the problem with making a medical drama or a police procedural: What actually goes on in these worlds doesn’t make very good television. Just as most real police work is drudgery, raising a child with a profound disability is mostly a daily slog in which simple things like feeding or bathing can take hours.

That’s why Mr. Kring and his team try to establish early on that, though Jake may look autistic, “Touch” is not about autism, and Jake’s condition is something else entirely.

“In the pilot we were pretty set on trying to state that as early as possible,” Mr. Kring said. “Clearly the autism community deserves to have champions out there, but by the same token we wanted to have the ability as storytellers to float above reality a little bit. There’s something special going on with this child, something metaphysical, almost supernatural.”

Carol Barbee, an executive producer of the show, added, “We also wanted to be sure not to be coming from a place of saying your autistic child is also a magical child.” To real-life parents that approach would be dismissive, like the old “special gift from God” line that well-meaning strangers often use because they don’t know what else to say.

In the premiere Martin finds his way to a cryptic fellow played by Danny Glover who tells him that Jake and others like him have psychic powers of sorts.

“Your son sees everything,” Mr. Glover’s character says. “The past, the present, the future. He sees how it’s all connected.” Then he adds, “It’s a road map, and your job now, your purpose, is to follow it for him.”

That paranormal-sounding assignment actually mimics the role that a parent of such a child assumes in real life. Though you try to provide tools that might let the child use language the way other people do — my daughter is currently working with a MyTobii, a keyboardless, mouseless computer that reads the gaze of her eyes in order to speak for her — you come to realize that the real task is to meet the child where she lives and decode what you can. For Martin, Mr. Sutherland said, that realization brings a breakthrough.

“That’s the first kind of real empowering moment that Martin has as a father,” he said. “One of the things that’s so fantastic in the first five episodes is you really see their ability to communicate take leaps and bounds.”

For Mr. Kring, Jake and his father are a means into a subject that has long interested him. “I’ve been really exploring this theme of interconnectivity between people,” he said. “With ‘Heroes’ I sort of buried the interconnectivity under the theme of superheroes. Here I wanted to put it front and center.”

Why make the linchpin a child without words? “How I arrived at him being mute was really just by trying to create a character who had this extraordinary gift but was possibly the most disenfranchised person on the planet.” Mr. Kring said. “If the theme was about interconnectivity, the microcosm of it was about a father who couldn’t really connect with his own son.”

The “haiku storytelling,” as Mr. Kring called it, will stretch all over the globe. Future episodes will include plotlines set in Russia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Australia. “Anything that we can make Southern California look like,” Ms. Barbee said, “that’s where we’re going.”

Wherever it goes “Touch” seems as if it has a chance to do what many shows that use characters with disabilities don’t: go beyond the superficial and avoid easy, feel-good solutions. Jake’s disability may be a fantastical construct, but the communication challenges are real.

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Kiefer Sutherland Says 24 Movie Will Be Like Going Home

Hollywood Exclusive: Kiefer Sutherland Says '24' Movie Will Be 'Like Going Home'

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith

Jan 12, 2012

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Kiefer Sutherland smiles when he talks about anticipating the late-April/early-May start of production on the big-screen "24" movie. "That's like going home," he says of getting back into Jack Bauer's skin.

It's been more than five years since the "24" team first set its sights on making a feature. Sutherland acknowledges, "That process has taken us so long; it's such a complicated script to write. Normally, we have 24 hours to tell a story. Trying to condense it into two hours involves a lot of hard choices: What kind of story do you want to tell? How political do you want to make it? How character-driven do you want to make it?"

Sutherland was in fine form at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour this week, talking about his Jan. 25-debuting Fox "Touch" series that has him as the father of a mute, possibly autistic boy who has an astonishing understanding of numbers and their correlation to the universe.

The star was also was among the notables on hand at Fox's party at the historic Castle Green Hotel in Pasadena, Calif., where he chatted away gamely and amiably even though a small group of reporters pretty much backed him into a small space behind a grand piano. He elaborated on some of what he talked about at the earlier press conference -- including the "24" film.

As far as the answers to all those questions about how political and/or character-driven the big screen "24" will be, he laughed and said, "You'll have to wait and see it." He said that several "great actors have expressed interest in (acting in) it, either as an ally or villain."

Sutherland also anticipates more big names will turn up on "Touch" -- which already boasts Danny Glover as a professor who has a handle on matters where quantum physics meets metaphysics. "Because it's a procedural drama as opposed to a serialized show, we could get someone in and out as quickly as an episode," noted Sutherland, who is also a producer on the series. "Or if someone was interested in being involved in a longer arc, I'm sure we could accommodate them."

Sutherland definitely made the most of his two years away from the TV cameras. Asked what the time meant to him, he said, "I got some rest. I got to think about other things I wanted to do. I got to do two films I was very excited about, with very different characters." Those are Mira Nair's upcoming "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," with Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson, and Lars von Trier's "Melancholia," with Kirsten Dunst.

"And doing 'That Championship Season' on Broadway. I did those things and also had some time off and got some rest -- and realized that I missed working."

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Kiefer Sutherland Branches Out from Jack Bauer with Emotional Role in TOUCH

Sutherland Banches Out From Jack Bauer With 'Emotional' Role in Touch

 

 

BY ALEX STRACHAN, POSTMEDIA NEWS JANUARY 9, 2012

 

Actors David Mazouz (L) and Kiefer Sutherland speak onstage during the ' Touch' panel during the FOX Broadcasting Company portion of the 2012 Winter TCA Tour at The Langham Huntington Hotel and Spa on January 8, 2012 in Pasadena, California.

Photograph by: Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images

PASADENA, California — Kiefer Sutherland is no longer running around on TV with a gun and cellphone, saving the world from swarthy Middle Easterners, tin-pot dictators and right-wing conspirators. In the quiet, change-of-life drama Touch, Sutherland plays a single father trying to reconnect with his mute 11-year-old son.

The story is a concentric tale of hurt souls — a firefighter tormented by his inability to save a dying woman, a teenager desperate to help his ailing family, a talented singer whose songs have a mysterious healing ability — none of whom know each other, but are connected in some mysterious way.

Sutherland appeared visibly relaxed as he appeared before reporters Sunday, in a dark grey pullover, well-worn jeans and his trademark cowboy boots.

Sutherland quietly explained how he got a call out of the blue while performing That Championship Season on Broadway.

“The character was so vastly different, and the tone was so vastly different, that was part of its appeal. I just emotionally responded to what was on the page. The past thing I wanted, after doing 200 episodes of 24, was another TV series. But the moment I started reading this, I just went, ‘Shit.’ My character in 24 was always repressing himself; this character is all about having an emotional reaction in the moment. This character will grow, and that’s another thing that appealed to me.”

A sneak preview of Touch’s opening hour will air Jan. 25, on Fox and Global TV. The series’ official premiere is slated for March.

“I had to read it a second time to make sure that all the things that affected me affected me on a personal level, and it wasn’t just out of a need to manage my career and get away from Jack Bauer. Is it a nice diversion from 24? Yes. But I honestly feel it was something deeper in the material, in the story, that affected me.

“The one parallel I can see between the two characters is that they’re never going to have a perfect relationship with their children. That’s appealing to me, exploring the idea that something as intimate as a personal relationship can be preordained.”

Also, Sutherland added, with a wan smile, “In this show, I get to sit down.”

“I haven’t been very articulate about this,” Sutherland said, moments later, startling his audience. “It’s not about 24, or wanting to distance myself from 24. I see this show as a way of showing how we all get old, and how things change as we get older.

“In 24, Jack Bauer was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this show, there’s no such thing as the wrong time — it’s about how everything is interconnected. There’s something wonderfully comforting about thinking that everything has a purpose.”

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