The sooner America puts a woman president in the White House the better, according to veteran actor Donald Sutherland, who plays the Machiavellian Nathan Templeton struggling against Geena Davis' President Mackenzie Allen in Commander in Chief.
Sutherland (below) has never been afraid to speak his mind, and says that most of the world's ills today can be attributed to the fact that the leadership of the US is male. 'It's just so much better with a woman, don't you think?' he says. 'It's essential.
'I believe this country is going to be saved from the debauch, the problems that we're encountering with respect to everything about the future of our children. We have to have a woman president. We cannot do it with a man. They are not capable of understanding the welfare and future of our children.
'You have to birth them, to love them sufficiently to sacrifice political gain for the future to recognise that capitalism is not all that it's cracked up to be ... if we're going to save ourselves, we have to have a woman.'
Sutherland says he believes, from personal experience, that women were better decision-makers than men. 'It's not as simplistic as war or not war, but just the reaction process. If I look at my relationship, if I were to trust either my wife or myself as a reaction to whatever happens in reality, I'd go 100 per cent with my wife because her natural instinctive reactions would just embarrass me,' says Sutherland, who's been married three times. 'Men haven't done well - it's time to give somebody else a chance.'
The 70-year-old Canadian refuses to be drawn on which female politician he might support, however.
