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Liev appeared as a guest on Live with Regis and Kathy Lee on Monday, January 31, 2000. Following are the transcript and some vidcaps. Photos provided by Marie. The following photos are the property of Marie and we ask that you do not use them without her permission.

Note the spelling of his name in the CG

Transcript provided by Balla:

He's been in "Ransom", "Sphere", "A Walk On the Moon", and "Scream" 1 and 2. He's really a terrific actor. And now taking a stab at "Scream 3", yeah, here's Liev Schreiber.

[Thunderous applause]

RP: Liev, how you doing? Nice to see ya.

LS: How are you? Nice to see ya.

[Liev and Regis say the same phrase simultaneously]

LS: Hi.

KL: Nice to see you.

LS: Nice to meet you.

RP: Have a seat.

LS: Thank you.

RP: Liev just came in from Sundance, you know, the big film festival out there in Utah.

LS: Yeah.

RP: What is that really like? Did you see Robert Redford hanging around having a cup of coffee, or...?

LS: He doesn't go anymore I don't think.

RP: Oh really?

LS: I was looking all over for him and I couldn't find him.

RP: Uh huh.

LS: It's...it's very busy now.

RP: But there's a lot of young filmmakers up there, huh?

LS: A lot of young filmmakers, but I think that the, uh, the independent film world is uh, booming right now.

KL: And a lot of women emerging. Uh, didn't the *top* prize go to a...a young woman?

LS: *Yeah,* "Girl Fight"...it was split, the grand jury was split between a film called, "Girl Fight" and a film called, "You Can Count On Me" which is uh, Kenny Lonergan, a NY guy who started Naked Angels that theatre company.

RP: Well, you know, it's a wonderful break for young filmmakers (KL interjects and says, "Oh Yeah!") who can't get his wares seen anywhere else so he goes there and he strikes gold. You know, I always thought your name was "Leave" because I've heard it over and over again, but it's pronounced "Lee-ev".

LS: Yeah, yeah (he nods).

KL: He knows, Reg.

LS: I know. At least it's not Doody.

[Laughter from everyone]

RP: But your...but your mother had a cute nickname for you. What'd she call you?

LS: Oh no, you didn't...

[Turns his head in direction of assistants off camera]

LS: Oh no (wincing).

KL: Huggy. Huggy baby.

LS: Yeah, yeah. I was Huggy. Actually I still am to my family.

RP: I bet you are, sure.

LS: It's not easy being 6'3 and being called Huggy.

KL: Huggy, yeah.

LS: It doesn't go over real well.

RP: Did you wanna be an actor when you were a kid?

LS: No, no. I wanted to be an elevator operator.

[Laughter from audience]

RP: Did you really?

LS: Yeah.

KL: Every kid goes through that...

LS: After...elevator operator?

KL:...toll taker, elevator operator...

LS: Is Cody doing that with the elevators?

KL: No, fireman.

LS: Fireman.

KL: Big thing was fireman at first, yeah.

LS: He's just an ambitious kid. I wasn't that ambitious.

KL: Then it was right to James Bond, you know. Yeah, yeah.

LS: Bond I wanted. I wanted to be the first Bond, I wanted to be...I wanted to be the first Jewish Bond (laughter from audience) and then I wanted to be the first Jewish Superman. I figured Zorro, but I...I never get those parts.

KL: There's still time, there's still time.

RP: So when did you become interested in acting?

LS: Uh...I think, you know, once the elevator...

RP: Stopped?

LS:...operator thing...figured that wasn't going to work out...uh, they put the buttons in and I wanted the...

[Makes back and forth motion with his right hand]

KL: You wanted the crank.

LS:...the thing that goes like this and you stop.

[Continues to make the motion]

KL: Anybody can press a button, but it takes a real man to crank it, baby.

LS: Yeah. And after I saw that they weren't going to do this anymore (makes motion again), I thought, "Oh, what the hell, I'll...I'll be a movie star. Why not?"

[Laughter from everyone]

RP: Just like that (snaps his finger). The elevator and then...

KL: And he is.

LS: Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna...can't do the elevators, can't do the...I wanted...*dentist* I wanted to do too because *the buttons* on the chair (starts pointing in the air like he's pushing buttons). I liked pushing buttons.

RP: See...

LS:...buttons on the chair.

RP: All it takes. A few buttons and this guy's happy.

KL: Freud would love to get a hold of you in his chair.

LS: Yeah.

RP: We'll be right back with Lee-ev in a moment.

[Applause and break for a commercial]

RP: We have Liev Schreiber with us, we're talking about "Scream 3". Of course, he was in Scream 1 and Scream 2, we just found out his character is probably one of the few characters still alive.

[Laughter from audience]

LS: Yeah. I had...I made a deal about that 'cause I...the first time that I...the first time...the first one that I did...uh, a friend of mine who worked at Dimension asked me to do Scream 1 and I...I said, "You know, I...I don't really like horror movies, you know? They...they scare the piss out of me (laughter from audience) and I'm not really...it's not really the kind of work that I...that I wanna do." And he said, "No it's no problem. All you gotta do is walk down some stairs and you're fine and it seemed like the easiest ten grand you ever made." *And it was*, you know. I went there twenty minutes, I'm in beautiful Northern California, I walk down the stairs. And they say at the end, the guy says, "Well, we want you to be in the sequel." And I said, "Oh, wait a minute now. That means I'm probably gonna have a bigger part and all this stuff." And they said, "Sure," and they said, "What's the problem with that?" And I said, "Well, I don't like horror movies. I don't like killin' people and I don't like gettin' killed."

[Laughter from everyone]

KL: It's a personal thing (Regis laughs).

LS: Yeah, for me. At that point I'd been killed in a lot of movies; in "Sphere" in all these movies I'm dying.

KL: It gets...it gets old.

LS: And my mom was like...

RP: She'd rather see you alive.

KL: Huggy, don't die, Huggy darling.

LS: Enough with the dying already. So I said, "OK, I'll do the second one as long as we can make a deal: I don't die, and I don't kill anybody." So they had to work around that which is kinda weird. In a horror movie, how do you do a horror movie you don't die, you don't kill anybody?

[Laughter from everyone]

LS: You just sort of stand there and you walk through everyone's (waves like he's saying hello to someone)..."There he is again. That's the guy from the first movie."

[Waves again and there's more laughter]

RP: But now you're still alive for the third movie?

LS: Yeah.

KL: And as you say this is the last one.

LS: This is it. It was always a trilogy. It was only al..al..always only gonna be three.

RP: Oh really?

KL: OK.

LS: Yeah.

RP: And the...the script was top secret, as a matter of fact, all the actors and actresses just got their lines.

KL: Only their parts. Yeah.

LS: I didn't know. They would just tell me, I'd get in front of the camera, they'd say, "Say Hi". "Hi".

[Liev waves again]

KL: Well, now you're gonna get to see it.

LS: Oh yeah?

RP: Yeah, in this particular scene here you are trying to calm your...your terrified girlfriend down.

LS: Oh yeah, oh yeah.

RP: OK, let's take a look. A scene from "Scream 3"

[Show clip. When they come back, Liev's wincing in his chair]

RP: Well, there he is again with that face. Just trying to stay alive, that's all.

LS: That's, that's pretty much...

KL: Oscar! Oscar written all over it.

RP: Alright. It opens up this Friday Liev, right?

LS: It does.

RP: Alright, thanks for coming by. Nice to have you here.

LS: Thank you very much.

KL: Really nice to see you.

LS: Alright, thank you.

RP: Right back with Claudia Cohen in a moment.

[music plays]

There's no sound, but Liev appears to be saying at the end, "Thank you, Kathy."

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