Who makes a better Jack Bauer? Kiefer or the Rickster?

Imagine, if you will, a world where Jack Bauer was not Kiefer Sutherland but rather, say, Ricky Schroeder.

24_614-sc1422_2201_f.jpgThat’d never happen, you scoff. Don’t deny it, I hear you scoffing!

Aha, but that’s the thing. It could have happened (Source.)

Joel Surnow said he “was keen to cast a more youthful actor as lead in the action series.”

But then he met Kiefer, who was a whopping 34 at the time (the Rickster was only 31), and it was all over.

We’d conceived Jack as a guy who had a 16-year-old daughter but was still youthful enough to appeal to the Fox audience, which is skewed towards ‘young.’

Phew! Dodged that bullet. So to speak.

Thanks to Fox for the photo.

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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 by AmyV • Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland, Ricky Schroeder, Season 6 Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Who makes a better Jack Bauer? Kiefer or the Rickster?”

  1. steveegg says:
    October 30, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Ricky Stratton just doesn’t have the balls to…

    - survive a heart stoppage in the middle of torture
    - kill Nina Myers when her usefulness ends and not a moment after
    - work through the mother of all joneses to get a virus
    - get his kill groove on not once, but twice after 18 months on the shelf, the second spent eating bad moo goo gai pan

    I could go on.

  2. Jack Bauer says:
    October 31, 2007 at 10:01 am

    Didn’t little Ricky take some explosives to the face last season.

  3. AmyV says:
    October 31, 2007 at 11:12 am

    He most certainly did. And that would never happen to Jack Bauer. Of course, Jack could still take on the entire Chinese army blinded anyhow.

  4. SimplyKimberly says:
    October 31, 2007 at 6:48 pm

    Silver Spoons never would have been able to pull it off. He couldn’t even make Doyle a compelling character.