Donald Sutherland's Near-Death Experience
Actor pens a special essay for Smithsonian Journeys "Venice" issue.
For the latest issue of quarterly Smithsonian Journeys, focused on Venice, Italy, an essay was penned by a foreigner who loves that magical city more than most. Actor Donald Sutherland.
What makes his devotion to “Venezia” all the more remarkable is that it all started very inauspiciously. Sutherland, arriving there in 1968 at a time when he was shooting Kelly’s Heroes, fully contracted pneumonia. He writes that it led to a frightening out-of-body experience:
Standing behind my right shoulder, I’d watched my comatose body slide peacefully down a blue tunnel.
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