Actor
Kiefer
Sutherland
is
back
as
Counter
Terrorist
Unit
agent
Jack
Bauer
in
the
popular
US
TV
series
"24".
He
says
despite
playing
the
role
for
eight
seasons,
he
was
nervous
about
stepping
back
into
the
character's
shoes.
The
eighth
season
was
aired
in
2010.
The
new
season
titled
"24:
Live
Another
Day" is
currently
being
aired
on
AXN
India
every
Friday
at
10
p.m.
He
said:
"I
was
nervous...
Yeah,
I
mean
there
was
something
about
accomplishing
the
eight
seasons
and...
it's
a
complicated
answer,
there
is
never
a
single
season
that
Howard
Gordon
(who
has
conceptualised
and
co-produced
'24')
and
I
ever
felt
was
perfect,
which
was
what
made
us
really
interested
in
coming
back
with
something
we
felt
we
got
better
and
better
at.
"But
there
was
a
sense
of
accomplishment
when
we
completed
the
eight
episodes.
And
we
felt
that
they
were
all
very
solid."
Sutherland
said
the
character
changed
his
life
in
many
ways,
but
as
an
actor,
it's
something
that
he
grabbed
in
a
very
serious
way.
"So
there's
always
the
hope
of,
well
yeah,
okay,
let's
do
it.
But
no,
having
said
yes
and
I
said
yes
almost
immediately.
I
said
do
you
really
feel
strongly
about
this
idea?
And
he
said,
'I
do,
I
think
it
can
be
unbelievably
exciting
and
doing
the
12
episodes
will
give
me
latitude
as
a
storyteller
that
I've
never
had
before
with
the
24
episodes'.
So
I
said
yes
quite
quickly,"
he
said
in
a
statement.
Sutherland
says
the
show
will
remain
topical.
"I
don't
know
if
it's
going
to
be
as
uniquely
or
even
freakishly
current
as
it
would
be
given
the
nine
months' span
of
when
someone
writes
something
to
that.
And
that's
not
something
we're
really
trying
to
chase
I
just
can't
help
but
notice
that
for
four
or
five
years
it
was
doing
that.
"But
it
absolutely
will
be
topical,
we're
dealing
with
issues;
everything
from
US
drones
to
torture
procedures,
to
people's
culpability
within
the
context
of
working
for
the
government
and
how
they
behave
and
what
they
do,"
he
said.