What role did Freddie Prinze, Jr. play? I don’t remember him in 24 and after looking quickly on IMDB, his character’s name still doesn’t ring a bell.
What did ring a bell though was noticing in IMDB, and recalling that Prinze, Jr had played “Donny Crane” in Boston Legal. Prinze, Jr playing Denny Crane’s alleged son was unforgettable for me because Prinze, Jr had seemed uncomfortable, very stiff, and had appeared to be reciting lines and posing for the camera rather than in the role.
What I’d read long ago about Sutherland was that he is very professional, but who knows what’s a press release and what’s the truth.
This might be also be a case where Sutherland granted permission or, in a run it up the flagpole mode, perhaps Sutherland suggested that Freddie Prinze, Jr. make a silly disparaging remark. They both would get their names in the news, Sutherland loses nothing and Freddie Prinze, Jr. gets a bit of a boost in publicity.
He was the director of field ops who was dating the character played by Katee Sackhoff. She was a spy for the Russians, and was also being threatened by an ex-boyfriend who got out of jail and came after her because she changed her name after getting off lightly on the murder rap that her boyfriend did serious time for.
-PJ
Prinze is such a terrible actor. Issues with Sutherland’s politics aside, he’s good at what he does.
For proof, just watch Prinze in that cinematic abomination “Wing Commander,” particularly an unintentionally hilarious scene towards the end where there’s a close-up of him kind of trying to fake cry. Man, that’s good stuff.