"I heard a voice saying hello and I looked down. Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush. … She wanted to explain what her video was about. I let her in. She sat down, said some stuff. All I heard was "Wilhelm Reich". I’d taken an underground copy of his The Mass Psychology of Fascism with me when I went to film Bertolucci’s Novecento in Parma. Reich’s work informed the psychological foundations of Attila Mellanchini, the character Bernardo had cast me to play. Everything about Reich echoed through me. He was there then and now he was here. Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush. Synchronicity. Perfect. She talked some more. I said OK and we made Cloudbusting. She’s wonderful, Kate Bush. Wonderful. I love that I did it."
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On meeting Kate Bush, as she pitched her concept of the music video for "Cloudbusting" to him, as quoted in "The story behind Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting video", DAZED (30 October 2015); also quoted in "The Funny Story of How Donald Sutherland Ended Up in Kate Bush’s Cinematic Cloudbusting Video", by John Russell, People (20 June 2024)
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNichol Sutherland CC (17 July 1935 – 20 June 2024) was a Canadian actor and anti-war activist whose film career spanned over seven decades. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018. Sutherland's films include M*A*S*H (1970), Klute (1971), and Don't Look Now (1973). Much later, he portrayed President Snow in The Hunger Games franchise. The honours Sutherland received included the Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) in 2019. He was the father of actors Ki
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