The word presence might have been invented for him. Not just for his height — 1.93 m — nor his King Lear-like white hair. Donald Sutherland, who died at the age of 88, crossed the screen like fifty years of cinema and television: like a lord, at a gallop, with irresistible grace, brilliance and insolence. Breathtakingly handsome, with a sardonic, amused, tender or mutt smile depending on the role.
For millennials, he will forever be, in their childhood memories, the evil President Corionalus Snow from “Hunger Games.” The sacred Canadian monster inhabited this role with his joyful ferocity. Was there a more playful actor than him? For the “24 Hours Chrono” generation, perhaps he was also the father of Kiefer, one of his five children, born from two unions.