The actor Donald Sutherland receives this Thursday, September 26, the Donostia Prize in recognition of his film career and, although he is unable to choose a film, he said at a press conference that he loved "working with Fellini", while he has referred to "climate change" as one of the issues that concern him and the only one who wants to give his opinion.

"I have children and grandchildren, and the world I have left them is not a world in which they will be able to live. I'm serious, the attitude of the UN is crap, " said the Canadian actor in response to a question about refugees in Europe, about what has been limited to saying that their "great-grandfathers" were refugees and that it is a "desperate" issue.

"Do you know that the Chinese now use individuals to pollinate their flowers and apple trees, that they do it individually because there are no bees anymore? If you drive, the mosquitoes no longer stick in the windshield and there are no more birds in my lawn. That is what we should do. talk, "he said.

Sutherland (New Brunswick, Canada, 1935) recalled that when his father asked him what he wanted to be, he replied that he wanted to be an actor, and "not because of an external influence, but because of a very intrinsic need ." He went to college, studied engineering and failed. "I was not very good," admitted the actor.

As the actor has indicated, when he started his intention it was only to be "a theater actor", where he worked for eight years. Afterwards, he had the opportunity to work in the cinema and he had a wonderful time, as he recalled. Then it was filmed in "celluloid" and now, with the digital system, it does not feel "totally adjusted to the situation" and believes it never will be.

As he had already said on previous occasions, Sutherland has commented with the press the moment in which he was about to die, during the filming of Kelly's Violence , directed by Brian G. Hutton. As he has said, he was in a coma because of bacterial meningitis and had the experience of "leaving the body."

"But I grabbed the bed and forced myself to continue living," said the actor, who encourages talking to people who are in a coma because they "can hear" , as he himself experienced when the director and producer They talked about the telegram they were going to send to his wife to tell him that they would send his body.

"I don't have much money to retire, I have many mouths to feed," the filmmaker joked, father of five children - including actors Kiefer and Rossif Sutherland. As he has confessed, his life is "work" and that is his "passion" , because the characters he has given life have given "much enjoyment, information and freedom" for life that "would never" have Daring to live.

The Canadian actor will collect this Friday the Donostia Prize, which the San Sebastian Festival gives him for his "interpretative excellence" , during the gala to be held at the Kursaal, before the screening of the film 'The burnt orange heresy', directed by Giuseppe Capotondi.

The film addresses the possibilities of inventing the truth when one has the power, something that, in the words of the filmmaker, "occurs every day and everywhere, both in politics and in the world of finance." "You can create an alternate truth and that is the little message of this movie," he said.

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