International Courant
Elliott Gould has stated Donald Sutherland was “like my brother” as he paid tribute to his M*A*S*H co-star, who died Thursday aged 88.
In an Instagram message posted hours in the past, Gould wrote an emotional observe wishing the actor goodbye. The pair co-starred in Robert Altman’s 1970 darkish warfare comedy M*A*S*H, alongside the likes of Tom Skerritt and Sally Kellerman. They reteamed 4 years later for Ivan Kershner’s comedy S*P*Y*S.
“Donald was an enormous, not solely bodily but in addition a expertise,” wrote Gould. “He was additionally enormously form and beneficiant.”
He recalled that the pair had develop into fathers to sons born only a week aside in December 1966. — actors Jason Gould and Kiefer Sutherland, the latter of whom was a twin alongside Rachel.
“It is not straightforward, shedding the caliber of a human being and actor like Donald Sutherland, however this one actually profoundly hurts as a result of Donald was like my brother, and a giant a part of my very own profession.”
Sutherland died yesterday in Miami after a protracted sickness. Alongside M*A*S*H, he starred in scores of movies, together with The Soiled Dozen, Klute, Animal Home, Satisfaction & Prejudice and The Starvation Video games franchise and gained an Emmy and a Golden Globe for enjoying Russian Col. Mikhail Fetisov in HBO’s 1995 serial-killer telepic thriller Citizen X.
The 2017 Honorary Oscar recipient is also the daddy of veteran CAA Media Finance exec Roeg Sutherland.
