Here is one very
interesting and informative interview with Liv Tyler.
When you look in
the mirror, what do you see?
A little zit that's growing on my forehead. [Laughs.] I have a nice
little red shiner above my eyebrow. I don't even get that many. I do
take care of my skin - lots of creams.
You see the negative things when you look in the mirror?
One is so used to what they look like that when you look at yourself,
you only see the little red thing because it's foreign. It's like,
"There's a bug in the machine!" You know? It's the only
thing you really look at, I suppose.
What are your views on marriage?
I'm definitely not thinking about it now. But it's funny, when I was
younger, I used to believe in marriage - I mean, I believed in love
very much, but I just thought that everybody, that if you're really in
love with someone, it's not about signing papers or making it a legal
thing. I always thought you could have your own wedding together in
your backyard if you wanted to. Just because it's not worth the
divorce. Things happen, you know? But, definitely I've always had a
fantasy about it, about how nice it would be to have a big family and
a husband.
You mean with signed papers?
I don't know.
It's very early.
Yes.
But you're in a serious relationship now?
Stop it! I'm hopelessly in love, but - hold on! [Takes another phone
call.] Oh, it's so cute. My grandmother called! She's an etiquette
consultant. She's, like, the most successful in Washington. . . .
there's some hot line you can call and if you say, "I'm going to
Timbuktu and I need to know how they eat and all of their cultural
schmutzenhoffers [laughs], they have you call her. She writes books
and puts on these big seminars at the Ritz-Carlton and teaches
etiquette. It's outrageous. She's my mom's mom.
Would you finish the thought you began before when you said, "I'm
hopelessly in love, but . . . "
Oh, no, no, no! I had to get the other line.
Okay, moving on. What kind of music do you like?
I listen to so much. It's hard to say. I'm just obsessed with music. I
love it so much. I just got a record player recently, so I've been
listening to lots of records. I have lots of Patsy Cline and Hank
Williams and Marvin Gaye. I love old women singers, like Edith Piaf
and Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington and Etta James. I love Etta
James. And I love rock 'n' roll too. I don't like new stuff very much.
I don't really like the way it all sounds the same. I haven't really
listened to any of it.
What about college? Is that going to happen?
I've thought about it. I've always just wanted to go to N.Y.U. or the
New School and take some classes. I don't want to get a degree, but I
would love to learn more all the time. I'd love to take different
classes. It's just about finding the right time for it. I've been so
busy getting a home together and getting all that stuff situated. I
don't think that I would want to take off a couple of years to do it
now, but I might change my mind later.
Do you use computers and the Internet?
No, no, not at all. I was at a friend's house once, and he has a
computer and goes on-line all the time and talks to all sorts of
people. So I was like, "If you were to type my name in, would it
have pictures of me or anything?" And he started laughing at me.
He typed in my name, and there was, like, more than three thousand
different Web sites that mentioned me. He typed in [a fan's Web site],
and they had all these pictures, which are little on the screen and
kind of blurred. So you have to kind of click the little mousy thing
and it then becomes bigger. And I was so appalled: they had a shot
from Stealing Beauty, the love-making scene - where I'd actually had
underwear on - and there was a close-up of my crotch! It was like,
"Does Liv shave her m***, or is that a stunt double?" It was
so disgusting, I couldn't even believe that was there. It was so sad.
But you did, in fact, have pants on for that scene. I noticed.
I had, like, three underwears on: I had two white ones and one nude
one. But I don't know much about computers. I think it's pretty
incredible that there are so many programs that you could pretty much
learn anything and it would give you the information. But there are
other parts that I don't totally agree with just because it's kind of
addictive. It's like video games, you know? You can't stop.
Are there types of roles or specific parts you want to play?
There are two parts that I'm dying to do right now that I hope work
out. I'm just waiting. But I don't have, like, a specific character
that I'm dying to play. Maybe in a few years I will, after reading
more and being exposed to more things. But right now I'm pleased with
the roles I have. I've had to read so many scripts in the last couple
of weeks. Like fifteen or something. It's really hard. I mean, you
can't read a book when you've got a stack of scripts to read because
you just have to kind of do one script a day. I haven't read a book
for months, probably. I pick them up and start them and have to put
them down.
It's all happened so fast for you. When you went into acting did
you expect, or hope, that you'd be a star so quickly?
I don't even feel like it really went that fast, but I just remember
one day waking up and going, "Oh, my God, my life is so busy!
It's disgusting. I never knew it would be this way!" [Laughs.]
And that's when I knew I had to be incredibly responsible and take it
all on.
