00:00I'm Liev Schreiber, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:05[♪ dramatic music playing ♪
00:08AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!
00:09Was that the point of that one?
00:11Or did you want to know if I was in-screen?
00:12[♪ dramatic music playing ♪
00:16Oh, here. Here's what you asked.
00:19How...
00:21Oh.
00:23How to pronounce...
00:24Liev Schreiber.
00:26That's how you pronounce it.
00:28Liev Schreiber.
00:29I don't remember the last time I've heard my name said correctly.
00:32That might have been at my mom's house.
00:34Liev Schreiber is a Jets fan.
00:37Liev Schreiber is a Jets fan.
00:38Sadly, Liev Schreiber is also a Giants fan.
00:41Liev Schreiber is a fan of pretty much every team
00:44that has ever done a Hard Knocks show,
00:46because you get to know these guys
00:48who are at this inflection point in their careers,
00:51and it's moving, and you start to follow them,
00:52and you start to care about them.
00:53I think that's why the show's good,
00:55and I think that's why I'm a fan of so many NFL teams.
00:59Liev Schreiber awards.
01:01Just too many to list here.
01:04Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan.
01:06I really liked that show, so I enjoyed being a part of it.
01:10Those were all friends of mine who were in it,
01:13and they remain friends of mine,
01:15and, you know, when you do something like that
01:18for seven or eight years, those people become your family.
01:20I mean, I'm used to it, because I was a theater actor,
01:22so you had this thing where you work for three months,
01:25get very close with people, and then you leave,
01:27and I didn't realize that was one of the things
01:29about television is that you work with people
01:30for a really long time if the show's successful.
01:33I miss all of those people very much.
01:35There's another Ray Donovan good show.
01:40Okay, let's see what else you want to know.
01:42You want to know.
01:44Liev Schreiber, Scream.
01:46Ah!
01:47Was that the point of that one?
01:49Or did you want to know if I was in Scream?
01:50Ah, it's probably more like it.
01:52Yeah, I was in Scream.
01:53I was in Scream 1, Scream 2, and Scream 3.
01:56I had met the producer, and as a favor
02:00to whoever my agent was at that time,
02:02he gave me this part in it.
02:04All I had to do was walk up and down some stairs,
02:06and they would give me $20,000,
02:08and at that point, I was like, oh, yeah, and so I did,
02:11and then next thing I know, it's like this zeitgeist hit,
02:14and I'm in the second one, and I'm in the third one,
02:16so I actually owe Scream a lot for my career.
02:19Does Liev Schreiber play hockey?
02:22Very badly.
02:24I learned to play hockey for Goon
02:25because I had to play an enforcer,
02:28and there aren't many enforcers
02:31who are great hockey players,
02:33so it kind of made sense
02:34that I wasn't a great hockey player,
02:36but I had to look like I knew how to skate,
02:37so they sent me to hockey camp for five weeks,
02:40which is one of the amazing things
02:41about being in the movies is you get to learn things.
02:46Liev Schreiber, Asteroid City.
02:47Yes, I was in Asteroid City.
02:50Being on a Wes Anderson set is like,
02:53I don't know if you ever saw the show Captain Kangaroo.
02:56It's like that.
02:57YouTube it.
02:58Liev Schreiber as a kid.
03:00I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
03:03I was a little blonde kid with hair down to my butt,
03:08and I wore, for some reason,
03:10all the kids in my neighborhood called me boots
03:13because I wore cowboy boots
03:14that were like three sizes too big,
03:17so hopefully that encapsulates my childhood.
03:20What else do you guys wanna know?
03:23Liev Schreiber, Broadway.
03:25Yes, I've been on Broadway a number of times.
03:28I've even got a Tony, actually.
03:30I mean, I don't have it here with me,
03:31but I have one in my possession.
03:34There's no comparison.
03:35It's just a completely different animal, and I love it.
03:39It's hard.
03:40The schedules are hard.
03:40You get paid a lot less,
03:42although Broadway can sometimes be a little more lucrative.
03:45There's something about the theater,
03:47and this sounds really corny,
03:49but it's my equivalent of church.
03:51It's about the audience.
03:53It's about the community.
03:54It's about 500, 800 people in the dark communing,
03:59and it has much less to do with the actors than you think.
04:04There are laughs in the theater
04:06that don't exist in real life.
04:08There are laughs of acknowledgement
04:09where an audience sees something, and they go,
04:11and that laugh is meant to communicate
04:15to the other people in the room
04:17that they share something with this story
04:19or this idea and this theme,
04:21because what you're doing on stage
04:22is really putting something up
04:26for them to become closer to each other,
04:28for them to become closer to themselves,
04:30which I suppose cinema does the same thing,
04:32but what I love about the theater
04:34is it does it in this very visceral, real way,
04:37that they're sitting next to each other doing it,
04:39and it's happening,
04:40and they walk out feeling,
04:42if it's good, profoundly different.
04:44Liev Schreiber talked too much about the theater.
04:47Liev Schreiber, everything is illuminated.
04:48Yes, so I wasn't in that.
04:49I directed that,
04:50and I adapted it from Jonathan Safran Foer's book.
04:54It was the beginning, for me,
04:56of my fascination with America
05:00as a nation of grandchildren.
05:03It's part of why I'm so interested in the war in Ukraine
05:07and part of why I started Blue Check.
05:11And part of why I think we have to be so vigilant
05:13about our democracy,
05:16that it's something that we do owe a debt
05:18to our grandparents for,
05:20and it's something that we do have to,
05:22unfortunately, every once in a while
05:24perform some maintenance on.
05:26No, Liev Schreiber is not Wolverine,
05:29but I was in a movie with Wolverine,
05:32and I played his brother who was Sabretooth,
05:35Victor Creed.
05:37And no, I'm also not Nicole Kidman,
05:41if that isn't blatantly obvious to all of you,
05:44but I was finally in a show with Nicole Kidman
05:48called The Perfect Couple,
05:50which was really, really fun,
05:51and she is a remarkable actress,
05:55and surprisingly naughty,
05:57and I really enjoyed acting with her.
06:00What else?
06:01Okay.
06:02Mm-mm.
06:03Will Liev Schreiber return as Sabretooth?
06:07It's possible.
06:08I mean, that was a lot of weightlifting and eating chicken,
06:13and I'm not sure I'm up to that,
06:16but if someone had a great idea, I'd be in there.
06:20Why was Liev Schreiber with Usyk?
06:23Because he's probably the person I admire most
06:25in the world right now.
06:26I'm a huge boxing fan,
06:29but it's not what I love about Alexander Usyk.
06:32What I love about Alexander Usyk
06:34is his principles and his values,
06:37and who he is as a person.
06:39And, you know, fighters always talk shit
06:41about each other before fights,
06:43and Usyk just smiles,
06:45and is always kind, and is always respectful.
06:48There's something about his work ethic.
06:49The average boxer has, you know,
06:5230, 40 amateur fights.
06:54Usyk has 330-something.
06:57He practices that idea that Kobe used to say,
06:59I can't take a shot unless I've taken it
07:00a thousand times in practice.
07:03Usyk does that with boxing,
07:04and it's a work ethic.
07:07It's a respect.
07:08It's an integrity.
07:09The fact that he's also Ukrainian,
07:11and he's representing the strength and resilience
07:14of his people, and not just his people,
07:16but all of us, what we're capable of,
07:18if we put our minds to it.
07:20He's extremely special to me.
07:22So when he invited me to do the ring walk with him,
07:26I was very flattered, and extremely nervous.
07:30I was so freaked out that I was gonna jinx him.
07:33But thankfully, he is who he is, and he won.
07:36He's the heavyweight champion of the world, by the way.
07:39Leo Schreiber voice acting.
07:41Yeah, I've done that a couple times.
07:42I did Spider-Man movies.
07:44I did My Little Pony, Isle of Dogs.
07:48So yeah, I've done a little bit of voice acting.
07:50Leo Schreiber beard.
07:51Yeah, I have a beard.
07:53I mean, I wouldn't call it a beard.
07:54I'd call it stubble.
07:55It started with Ray Donovan, and then as I got older,
07:58I was like, you know, my face is pretty fat.
08:00So we call it Slavic fat pads in my family.
08:03And I thought, with the stubble,
08:05my face looks a little less fat.
08:06Stubble helps, guys out there.
08:09What are they called when guys do that?
08:10They give grooming tips?
08:12Stubble helps with Slavic fat pads.
08:15Oh, really?
08:16There weren't any like, that's, come on.
08:17People wanna know other, more awful things.
08:21I think the number one thing is probably like,
08:24does he have kids?
08:25Is he married?
08:26They wanna know all that stuff.
08:27I'm kind of disappointed.
08:28I have three.
08:29I'm not convinced that those are the top questions
08:32the internet has about me.
08:33I think that the internet has a lot more awful questions
08:36about me that you're protecting me from.
08:38Somebody's protecting me from the awful questions
08:41that the internet has about me.
08:43But you know what?
08:43You can always just Google me.
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