22.02.2004: Herzlichen
Glückwunsch an Kiefer. Er konnte bei den SAG-Awards den Preis für den besten
Darsteller in einem "Drama" entgegennehmen.
Hier nun seine Dankesrede:
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama
Series
Kiefer Sutherland
/ 24 - Jack Bauer - FOX
KIEFER SUTHERLAND: I am
stunned. I got to walk by one of the guys who got me started, Mr. Sean Penn.
Thank you. [applause] I want to make this about actors because that’s what this
evening is about, but I have to thank our writers, because without them we
couldn’t do this.
To Joel, Bob, Michael,
Howard, all of the writers on “24,” you have given us so much pleasure to
deliver the scenes, and your work. Very quickly, I realized I wanted to be an
actor, I was about 14, I was watching a performance of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf,” and somewhere between the first and second act, I forgot my mother was
playing Martha and… [laughter] I realized how powerful that was. As my interest
grew, I started to spend time with her friends, other actors, and I realized
that as different as they all were, they were connected by a bond.
And there was a freedom in
that bond and they became my family and as my career has developed, actors have
been my family, and to get this from you, I cannot thank you enough.
Thank you very much. It’s a
true honor. Cheers.