Kiefer Sutherland got emotional at `24` end

Actor Kiefer Sutherland fought back emotions as he finished shooting `24`.

London: Actor Kiefer Sutherland fought back emotions as he finished shooting the hit TV show `24`. Sutherland, who played Jack Bauer for nine years, found saying goodbye to the show "much more difficult" than he had anticipated.

Fox announced in March that the action show`s current eighth season will be its last. "It`s been the gift of a lifetime. It`s a bittersweet situation. We believe it was right to end the series but we were not prepared for the emotional reaction. We worked with the same people for 14 hours a day, five days a week for nine years and they become like your family. I spent more time with them than my family," Sutherland told TV host Jonathan Ross. "The very last day, it was hard shooting it and the second they called the last wrap I watched really tough guys fall apart. It was really moving. I thought I had prepared for it, I went to say a few words to the crew about how much this time had meant to me and my bottom lip went - as much as you think you can prepare for a moment like that it was much more difficult than I thought," he said. But the star is delighted with the ending. He adds, "There`s a very touching moment. I don`t think me or the other actor thought it would be. That last moment actually worked well, we`re proud of it and it worked really well." `24` became a hit in India on the web after Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor made an appearance on the show as the leader of a middle-eastern country in the depicting a 24-hour period in the life of a government agent fighting fictitious terrorist threats to the US. PTI