Kiefer Sutherland, Shane MacGowan once got into a bar fight: ‘We were rolling on the floor’
nypost.comKiefer Sutherland learned after meeting the late Shane MacGowan for the first time at a bar in the ’90s. A 2019 anecdote shared by the “24” star is making its resurgence Thursday amid news that the Pogues frontman has died at age 65.
During an appearance on Ireland’s “The Late Late Show,” Sutherland, 56, told host Ryan Tubridy about the time he ran into Sinead O’Connor, Van Morrison, Ronnie Wood and MacGowan at a Dublin club. “That’s something you’re never going to see,” he said of the star-studded table.“I knew Ronnie so he invited me up to say hello and I introduced myself, and I couldn’t help but noticing that Sinead O’Connor was drinking milk and everybody else was not.”Sutherland continued that he quickly made the “cardinal mistake” of bringing up politics only to find that he and MacGowan had conflicting opinions about the history of Scotland. “And before you know it, the two of us were fighting,” he claimed. “We were rolling around on the floor and I remember Van Morrison laughing.”“I won’t get into the fight, but it ended.
And I got up and I said, ‘I’m embarrassed, I’m very sorry’ and I walked away,” he remembered. The “Designated Survivor” star remembered MacGowan to be in a raggedy arm cast and not having a lot of teeth at the time, “so fighting just seemed unfair,” he admitted.
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