Donald Sutherland slumps forward in his chair and sighs sadly, “F*** me!” The 75-year-old screen legend, star of M.A.S.H, Don’t Look Now and Ordinary People, is recalling the summer of 1983 and how the last words spoken by his Parkinson’safflicted father were, “Life was better when the children were young”. This was, apparently, a cruel climactic put-down from a stern and distant figure. “What he meant was that nothing I had done from the point of 10 years onwards had satisfied him,” explains Sutherland, excitable now, finger prodding the glass tabletop in front of him.
“I supported my dad, I bought his house, I did everything for him. But that was exactly what he meant!” He catches himself, gives a shrug and, with a