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
When you have this structure of a stranger in a strange land, it is essential that the place and characters be really authentic.
I really liked the idea of delivering an American character who defied some of the cultural cliches we have been exporting to the rest of the world. A character who was awkward, vulnerable, young, innocent, neurotic, somewhat alien,
I want to forget what I've learned about the character, but the reality is that you can't, because you've absorbed it. It's there in that moment when you need it. The hard part is to trust it.
If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
You always have to create the character from the ground up.
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.
Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
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,'
I spoke to (director/historian Peter) Bogdanovich, who knew him personally,
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.
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
I was out of my head. I was really frantic, ... I guess I was always under the misconception that a director makes the film, and it's not true. A director directs the people who make the film.