LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Kiefer Sutherland's Christmas movie Tinsel Town, in theaters and video-on-demand Friday, pays homage to the viral video that shows the actor jumping into a Christmas tree. The clip from the 2006 documentary I Trust You to Kill Me was shared on YouTube.
In Tinsel Town, Sutherland plays action star Brad Mac. In response to her client's unreasonable demands, Brad's agent books him in a Christmas pantomime of Cinderella in a small English village.
In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Sutherland, 58, said both times he jumped into a Christmas tree were painful. Brad takes the leap after a public spectacle in the town square.
"It hurt the first time I did it and it hurt this time too," Sutherland said. "That's just me jumping into a Christmas tree and that's what it is."
To clarify the context of the viral video, Sutherland said he and the band Rocco De Luca and the Burden were at a hotel that was taking its tree down in January.
