Donald Sutherland Once Wore a Gas Mask to a Party to Avoid Cigarette Smoke

Co-star Kiera Knightley called the late actor ’terrifying and impish and generous.'

Donald Sutherland arrives for the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018, in Hollywood, California. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images

In a tribute to Donald Sutherland, who died at 88 years of age last week after a long illness, actress Kiera Knightley shared how co-stars of the acting “giant” would “nervously” spray perfume and wash their hands to disguise the smell of cigarette smoke, a scent the M*A*S*H factory famously detested.

Ms. Knightley, 39, acted opposite Mr. Sutherland in the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Mr. Sutherland played the character of Mr. Bennet, while Ms. Knightley played his daughter Elizabeth Bennet.