The following article is a set visit/interview from last year (July 2007) when they were filming TV mini-series Guns and it offers an insight as to why it was made. An extract is posted below; click on the source link to read the article in full.
Sitting by herself, waiting for her scene is Elisha Cuthbert, who is working around Guns. “I had to fly to L.A. for two days of press for the film Captivity. Then it’s back here for more scenes, then I’ll be away again. I was only too happy this all worked out for me, the script just hit me, I had to do it.”
Later on at lunch, she showed off the whole Cuthbert family – dad, mom and siblings had driven in from Montreal to be with her. I reminded Cuthbert of the first time we’d met: her TV film Lucky Girl was coming on CTV and I predicted she’d win awards for it – and she did indeed cop a Gemini. At 18, she moved to L.A., hit it big in the first season of 24 as the daughter of Keifer Sutherland and Leslie Hope (”two more Canadians!”), then went the theatrical route with The Girl Next Door and House of Wax. Now a surprisingly mature 25-year-old, she says making independent films back in Canada is certainly part of her game plan.
“I play a seemingly nice girl, a philosophy major, who hooks up with a bad boy (Smith) and really loses her way … The way it was written grabbed me, there was a lot of insight there.”
Later at lunch, mama Cuthbert gave Sutherland permission to slap her back if she wasn’t co-operating – does this family know how popular their film star daughter is?
Source: TheStar.com