The unfortunate news of Donald Sutherland's passing yesterday hit Hollywood hard, with actors coming out to share their tributes to the Emmy-winning actor known for Klute, Pride & Prejudice and The Hunger Games franchise.
Sutherland was 88 years old and had close to 200 credits under his belt over a career that spanned five decades.
His key roles will be different for each generation, but he was beloved by millennials and Gen Z for his turn in the film adaptations of Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games series.
Sutherland dazzled as the devilish dictator, President Coriolanus Snow, whose origin story was told in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2023, with Tom Blyth starring as a young Snow.
Blyth took to Instagram to share a heartfelt tribute, praising Sutherland's "many genius performances" and said "it was the honor of a lifetime to follow in his footsteps" as Coriolanus Snow.
Donald Sutherland came about as close to mastering the craft of acting as anyone gets. So many genius performances. I never had the honor of knowing him personally, but it was the honor of a lifetime to follow in his footsteps. Thank you sir for birthing one of the great movie characters of all time
The two have more than The Hunger Games in common, as it was recently revealed that Tom Blyth will play Frederic Henry in a new adaptation of A Farewell to Arms.
Sutherland starred in the 1966 TV Mini-Series adaptation of the same popular Ernest Hemingway novel, starring in two episodes as Sim, where George Hamilton played Lt. Frederic Henry.
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