Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber
Isaac Liev Schreiberis an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the Scream trilogy of horror films, Phantoms, The Sum of All Fears, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Salt, Taking Woodstock, Goon, and Oscar Best Picture winner Spotlight...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 October 1967
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising.
The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.
You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
I loved the writing part of it, but the learning curve on the actual filmmaking was steeper than I thought,
It's strange - well for me anyway - to be inundated with all this attention, and as a couple we have to struggle to keep our personal life personal.
That is the major coup of the film.
I flew in from Prague and in the end it wasn't so bad. Now that I'm here I love it, I absolutely love it.
We talked about our grandfathers and their senses of humor and our sense of culture and history, and we had a lot in common,
When I read Jonathan's story, I said, 'This is just too weird and too serendipitous,'
Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very, very good-natured person. He is a truly kind person. I put him in some of the worst circumstances that you could put a human being in and there were homeless guys who I'd hired to be in the movie because I liked the way they looked, and they complained sooner than Elijah did.
I spoke to (director/historian Peter) Bogdanovich, who knew him personally,
I always wondered about my grandfather's story. What was his life really like as a young man?
I have a pathological memory problem and when he died I was very angry and worried that somehow I wouldn't remember him,