Kiefer Sutherland Reveals to Rapt ‘Rabbit Hole’ SXSW Audience the Unlikely Movie He Always Watches After a Bad Day
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Charles Dance was never a big Twitter or Facebook user. But now that he stars in Paramount+’s new Kiefer Sutherland thriller “Rabbit Hole”? “It’s made me more determined to have absolutely nothing to do with social media at all,” he said. “I mean, I never did anyway, but I’m certainly not going to do so now!” Paramount+’s “Rabbit Hole” stars Sutherland as John Weir, described as “a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces who have the ability to influence and control populations.” A packed Stateside Theatre audiences watched the first two episodes of “Rabbit Hole” at the South by Southwest festival on Sunday, and left with as many questions as they had answers.
Who’s on what side? What’s going on? That’s by design, and creators/showrunners John Requa and Glenn Ficarra told the audience that even after two episodes, they shouldn’t be comfortable with thinking they know what’s happening. “One thing that’s a constant of the show is who’s telling the truth,” Sutherland said. “There’s an assumption at the end of Episode 2 that you’re having an understanding of who you’re following, and what story is being told.
And I can assure you that that dynamic is going to shift throughout the entire season, until we rest somewhere, and what I find exciting about that is that it requires a level of audience participation.
We’re asking for your involvement in trying to figure out what the truth is and what is the play here and which characters are in fact being straight… And I think that’s, that’s exciting television.” Requa said the idea for “Rabbit Hole” was born after their agent, whom they share with Sutherland, said the “24” star was
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