Kiefer Sutherland's gun love

Kiefer Sutherland says it's "amazing" to point a gun at another person.

The actor loves playing counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer in '24' because of the amount of gun fights he gets to act out.

But Kiefer denies his character and the series endorse torture and violence.

Kiefer said: "I love this drama! As an actor I have had an absolute blast doing it. You sit in a room and put a gun to a guy's knee and say, 'Tell me!' Oh, you feel so amazing after that.

"But I know it's not real. The other actor certainly knows it's not real. And up until a year ago, everybody else knew it wasn't real."

In 2007, a delegation from US Military Academy West Point visited the set of the popular show to tell producers their depiction of negotiation and torture was influencing cadets.

Soldiers in Iraq were said to be using brutal interrogation techniques used by Jack Bauer in several episodes, it's a claim Kiefer, 42, insists is "ridiculous".

He said: "If that's actually happening, then the problem you have in the US military is massive.

"If your ethics in the military and your training is going to be affected by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

"If you can't tell the difference between reality and what's happening on a made-up TV show, and you're correlating that back to how you do your job in the real world, that's a big, big problem."

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