Liev Schreiber was on Ellen last week to promote Ray Donovan, the sixth season of which just wrapped. It’s been renewed for a seventh season next year. (I watched the first three seasons but haven’t kept up with it as it got too depressing.) Ellen kept dinging a bell to make Liev take a shot on the table behind her. It seemed cruel but I think only one or two of the shots were tequila and the rest were water. Liev had to have signed off on it first. He told Ellen that his New Year’s resolution was to give up sugar for a week but that he blew it by taking a shot on her show.
What was your New Year’s resolution?
I said I would give up sugar for a week because that was all I was willing to commit.
Did you do it for a week?
I guess alcohol is sugar so maybe I did make it for a week. I didn’t have ice cream for a week.
You mean processed sugar
That was my resolution. I wasn’t doing processed sugar.
Did you notice a difference? Did you get a headache?
No I just really wanted ice cream.
But you’re going to continue with it?
I think so. *Takes shot* that’s the end of that resolution.
How old are your kids?
Kai is 10 and Sasha is 11. They’re heading into that no go zone for me. I don’t want teenagers.
Do they think you’re cool?
No, you’re never cool to your own kids.
After that he said that his kids don’t think he’s cool no matter what, but that everyone’s kids are like that. Even when he got voice roles on Isle of Dogs and Into The Spiderverse they were unimpressed. They were happy to meet Lil Wayne when he hosted Saturday Night Live though. He was pretty good on SNL! I liked the skits I saw on YouTube, particularly a Househunters one he did with Leslie Jones. I’m putting that below.
We’ve been talking so much about keto, but I don’t even want to give up regular sugar and ice cream. Keto and Atkins are way too hardcore for me. I try not to eat jellybeans every day. Even that’s a struggle for me. I’ll buy smaller amounts in bulk and try to trick myself by putting them in weird places in little tupperware containers around the house, like an alcoholic hides booze. I also eat ice cream almost every day. I’m ok with eating less of it though.
Oh and in case you’re wondering if Liev, 51, is still with his 26 year-old girlfriend, he definitely is. They were photographed out together earlier this week. He’s still friendly with his ex, Naomi Watts, and they seem to coparent well though.
Here’s the interview!
Here’s his bit with Leslie Jones doing ridiculous House Hunters. I laughed a few times.
You know he posted this to show off his abs. Nice
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