Comments on: Liev Schreiber

By: Joe Valdez

Joe Valdez — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:38:29 +0000

Pat: I'll have to remember the peanut butter if I ever seek a career as a voice artist. This is a bi-monthly feature I started to document how much work goes into a successful acting career. It's a fun job, but it's still a job. As for Schreiber, I really dig his ability to go from sophisticate to thug, something his childhood seems to have enabled him to do convincingly. I thought he would have made a terrific John Clark if the script for The Sum of All Fears hadn't been so fucked up. Thanks for stopping by! Moviezzz: Schreiber did his undergrad study at the Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, graduating in 1988. We obviously agree that he's had a unique career. I didn't mention that he also played the Laurence Harvey part in the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, the Gregory Peck role in the remake of The Omen and early in his career, was Ben Affleck's deputy in one of Joe Bob Briggs' favorite movies: Phantoms. Mrs. Thuro's Mom: Thanks for mentioning Twilight and The Painted Veil. A description of every movie Schreiber has appeared in over the last 12 years would have mandated a 2,000 word career retrospective. His most recent stage work was playing Ricky Roma in a 2005 revival of Glengarry Glen Ross, for which Schreiber won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play.

By: Mrs. Thuro's Mom

Mrs. Thuro's Mom — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:48:46 +0000

I didn’t know who he was until Scream, but after seeing him in both Twilight and The Painted Veil, I am even more impressed with his range and abilities. Nothing is better than an actor who can do it all and enjoys doing it all instead of trying to simply become famous. He rocks! I hope I am lucky enough to see him on stage one day….

By: Moviezzz

Moviezzz — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:01:37 +0000

He went to Hampshire? I did not know that (Hampshire is up in my area).

Liev has always been an interesting actor.

By: Piper

Piper — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:36:13 +0000

Wowy, wow, wow, wow. Joe’s got a new and different set of posts.

Glad I could be the first.

I like Liev. He’s had kind of an interesting/strange career thus far.

He’s got a voice like the kind of voice you get when you’ve eaten too much peanut butter.

I probably liked him best in Daytrippers.