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 have a pathological memory problem and when he died I was very angry and worried that somehow I wouldn't remember him,
When you have this structure of a stranger in a strange land, it is essential that the place and characters be really authentic.
There has been some updating. It's really quite smart.
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.
I always wondered about my grandfather's story. What was his life really like as a young man?
My grandfather was an athlete who worked as a butcher by day, but at night he taught himself to paint and play the cello. He was a very cultured man,
I think that for me, I'm in a great place. I work all the time, I hang out in fancy hotels, and I do interviews all day, and I get free coffee.
My model of casting comes from Eastern Europe and part of the ideology there is that culture and place are essential,
I had wanted so much to make this a European film. Jonathan and I compared stories of our grandfathers. I wanted to show their survivors' sense of humor: If you believe your life is excrement then you either drown in it or transcend it with irony. That's a distinct Eastern European trait.
I did everything that my father did in trying to find him because I didn't live with him,
If this wasn't as important to me and my family, I wouldn't have done it, ... I'm done, but today I went to check the mix. You're never really done.
He was very supportive of me, ... He saw every single play I did in New York. I'll never forget looking out into the audience and watching my brother, who was 40 years younger than my grandfather, sleeping in his chair during some of my early plays. My grandfather Alex never fell asleep.