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Scarlett Johansson And Liev Schreiber Starring In Broadway’s, ‘A View From The Bridge’
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut opposite Liev Schreiber in a revival of playwright Arthur Miller’s stage drama “A View from the Bridge,” show producers announced on Monday.
ScarJo, 24, will appear on the Great White Way in the drama set in 1950’s America about a Brooklyn dockyard worker obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, played by Johansson.
Preview December 28 and the show is expected to run for 14 weeks.
Other high-profile film actor’s appearing on Broadway this year include Jude law, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Liev Schreiber Had A Really Disfunctional Childhood!
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by CSS.
His acting, he says, has complicated roots and comes from a childhood that is infamously dysfunctional. A simple précis couldn’t possibly capture the texture of it (the essayist and writer John Lahr tried to do just this in a lengthy New Yorker magazine profile of Schreiber in 1999). The key points include an early divorce between Schreiber’s blueblood father Tell and his Jewish former communist mother Heather; some time in an upstate New York commune with Heather; Tell kidnapping Schreiber back from Heather; a custody battle won by Heather, followed by a childhood for Schreiber dominated by his mother’s penury (they frequently had no electricity, hot water, or even beds).
He endured her mood swings and bohemian proclivities (she made him take Hindu names, wear yoga shirts, and he was forced, briefly, to go to an Ashram school in Connecticut when he was 12). It culminated in a fractured ankle during football practice at Brooklyn Tech in 1984, when the 17-year-old Schreiber was forced to turn away from sports and eventually towards the stage.
Acting, says Schreiber, is therapy. “I may have been working out my relationship with my mother and my father all along, and I probably will be for the rest of my life. But then that’s one of the luxuries of being an actor — it’s about self-exploration.”
He is now based in Manhattan and in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Naomi Watts, and his life at the moment is defined by the couple’s two infant children, Sasha, 17 months, and four-week-old Samuel Kai. “Remember that voyage of self-exploration I was talking so fondly about just then?” he says, chuckling to himself. “Well it just ends. You go, ‘Awhh sh-t! No more me time!’” He then sighs and quietly confesses: “I am struggling, though. It’s f***ing hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. But then they do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.”
-From TimesOnline
Yeesh. A communist mother, a kidnapping, a commune *and* an ashram? You couldn’t write this stuff. I always wonder about people who had extremely messed-up childhoods. Do they work extra hard to give their own kids the “normal” childhood they never had? Or do they screw up their own kids in the same old ways? In the interview, Liev also takes more about X-Men Origins, and his future theatre and film roles.
Schreiber’s next role is even more action-packed — he stars as the mutant supervillain Sabretooth opposite Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the comic blockbuster X-Men Origins this summer. The role, which required four months of bulking up and working out (transforming his already imposing 6ft 3in frame into a thing of hulking beauty), is the final step in Schreiber’s transformation from a man who’s all brains into one with muscles too.
“I like to think I’m part of the new Obama transition,” he says, tongue deeply in cheek. “Obama is hermetically intelligent, he knows what he wants and he never screws up. So maybe now there’s room for intelligent action heroes too.”
The real kick here is the sheer breadth of Schreiber’s professional evolution. A Tony award-winning stage dynamo, he has repeatedly wowed New York critics and crowds alike with his headlining Shakespearean roles (from Cymbeline to Hamlet to Henry V and beyond) since graduating from Yale School of Drama in 1992. “I do think there is some truth to the notion that you have little to fear from any role if you can comfortably break down a Shakespearean soliloquy,” he says, without false modesty.
Furthermore, he adds, children give you some much needed perspective on your work. Because despite the fact that he has a summer blockbuster on the way, and a romantic comedy with Helen Hunt called Every Day, plus a Jude Law sci-fi film, Repossession Mambo, he is still wildly unsure of his career prospects. “You can never be comfortable as an actor,” he says. “It’s like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. The minute you name an event it ceases to exist. It’s like that with acting. The minute you say you’re happy with your career, it’s gone. Over.”
-From TimesOnline
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Naomi Watts Scores A Sweet Mercedes BlueTEC For Her 40th Birthday!
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by CSS.
Last month, pregnant Naomi Watts sparked controversy by scootering around the mean streets of New York City on the back of a Vespa driven by baby-daddy Liev Schreiber.
But in Los Angeles, she has a shiny new car to drive around in, one that is both safer than a Vespa and has room for two car seats. The National Enquirer reports Liev bought Naomi a $50,000-plus Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC for her 40th birthday, and she’s thrilled.
The environmentally-friendly luxury SUV doesn’t hit the market until later this month, but Liev managed to score one weeks early — and had it delivered with a big red bow on the hood at a surprise bash he threw for his sweetie in L.A. Naomi, who is due to give birth to the couple’s second child in December, couldn’t contain her excitement and immediately took her new set of wheels for a spin around the block.
-From National Enquirer
According to the Mercedes Benz website, BlueTEC gets “the maximum power out of every single drop of diesel and so consumes significantly less fuel while conserving natural resources and actively preventing air pollution.”
Naomi came late to both fame and family, but now is doing great on both fronts. Her son Alexander turned one in July, her second child is due in December, and she’s said she still wants more kids.
