Video Interview: Donald Sutherland

NEW YORK: The award-winning actor Donald Sutherland tells TV Drama the incredible story of how the Pirate’s Passage project, based on the award-winning children’s book by fellow Nova Scotian William Gilkerson, reached his hands.

Sutherland grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and has worked on both sides of the Atlantic, in some of the most iconic films and for some of the best directors. His filmography includes M*A*S*H, Klute, The Dirty Dozen, Federico Fellini’s Casanova, Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900, Oliver Stone’s JFK and, more recently, the Hunger Games movies. On the small screen he has starred in Commander in Chief, Dirty Sexy Money and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Tandem. He also stars in Tandem’s TV series Crossing Lines. When Sutherland co-wrote and produced the animated movie Pirate’s Passage, Tandem stepped in as international distributor