You don’t expect sweetness and humour from Sutherland. From Stand by Me to The Lost Boys, from Flatliners to his mid-career resurgence as Jack Bauer, his best known roles have been either action-packed, tragic or thrilling, always playing serious men in high-stakes crises. But Sutherland himself is different. For a start he is a British comedy obsessive – he was spotted in the summer going to recordings of missing episodes of Hancock’s Half Hour at the BBC – and it is that interest in British humour (he is a long-time fan of Monty Python, Alan Partridge and the original Office) that led to him working with Stephen Fry in Marked.