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Liv Tyler was on The Tonight Show last night to promote her upcoming films The Strangers and The Incredible Hulk. The soft-spoken 30 year-old actress first talked about her name, Liv. She said it’s Norwegian and that her mother got the idea for the name by seeing actor Liv Ullmann on a TV Guide cover. She counts “liver lips” among her nicknames as a child.
She also discussed her mom and dad and her nontraditional childhood. Leno asked how her dad, Aeorosmith frontman Steven Tyler, was doing and she said he’s fine, and joked that her dad says that fine means “f’ed up, insecure, neurotic and emotional.” They spoke briefly about her father’s foot surgery but the fact that he was in rehab to supposedly recover from surgery was not mentioned. Liv called her mother’s 70s spread in Playboy artistic, and told a story about how she was embarrassed as a child by being dropped off at school by her mother, who wore flashy 70s club clothing.
On her sexy appearance in her dad’s video at age 16
Leno then broached the subject of Liv’s controversial appearance at the age of 16 in her father’s video “Crazy,” in which she played a teen who ran off with a friend, played by Alicia Silverstone, and ends up dancing in a strip club and scamming a guy out of his car. It includes many suggestive scenes and hints that Alicia and Liv’s characters have a sexual relationship. Liv said her dad was shocked at first when he saw the video:
“It’s funny because I was with him for the first time when he saw the video… he was a little bit shocked because there was sort of lesbian ideas going on… he wanted some things taken out. I remember that.”
Liv didn’t specify if her dad got her way and if anything was removed, but the resulting video was certainly controversial enough for 1994.
Leno asked if her dad ever gave her advice or sat her down for the “the talk,” and she said they talk about health and diet, and that he taught her how to make breakfast smoothies. She also told a funny story about how her dad made her floss her teeth as a child and then smell the food that was stuck in her mouth. She says she flosses daily now.
On splitting her pants while filming
After the break she told a funny story about splitting her pants while filming The Incredible Hulk:
“I wear the same outfit for the whole movie, a pair of really tight jeans. There was a scene where a helicopter crashes, and I have to pull William Hurt’s character out of the wreckage. So, I’m crouched down as low as I can get and I’m pulling this huge man out. Then, the director says cut, and I go outside for a quick break, and I can feel this cold draft. I reach around, and I find a foot-long rip, little g-string poking out, a white butt-cheek, everything. It was a very humbling experience.” [Transcript thanks to Splash News]
Here are the videos.
Liv Tyler on Leno - Part 1
Liv Tyler on Leno - Part 2
Liv Tyler is shown at the MTV Movie Awards on 6/1/08, thanks to WENN.
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19 Responses to “Liv Tyler talks about controversial appearance in dad’s video at age 16”
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She is so cute and she seems remarkable well-adjusted and down to earth for someone with her personal history.
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Jay as usual sucks at his job. He is terrible. I can’t wait till his lame ass is kicked to the curb. Liv on the other hand is adorable, amazing and seems like such a normal person for someone so young and accomplished. Megan Fox couldn’t hold her jock strap,,,er thong,,yeah thats the ticket.
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I saw her in person, once, and she is BEYOND gorgeous in person! And her sweet demeanor and kind face was SO different from so many of the LA ’stars’ that strut aroubd like they own the town and that everyone is below them. I love her!
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It will always be amazing to me that one so pretty can be the child of the utterly grotesque Steven Tyler. She may have been switched at birth. One never knows.
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Horse-faced Liv Tyler rode to fame on her father’s coattails.
If her dad weren’t a rock star, she would be a big fat nobody.
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Wow Cindy. Jealous?
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Yeah, Cindy likes to trash gorgeous women. Jealous, insecure, immature, sad - they all apply as far as I’m concerned.
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I remember that video and it raised a few eyebrows at the time (as well as a few other things). Liv is gorgeous, talented and wonderful. She’s the sweet kind of person you could sit down and have a drink with. Even her bad movies are enjoyable because of her (Armageddon anyone?)
/Cindy, issues much ?
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I think she ended up being a great woman & a wonderful mom, despite her strange childhood.
I always liked that video…
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that is such a gorgeous colour on her. She seems so likeable.
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Leave Cindy alone she is “fine” as Steven Tyler told Liv.
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Vile- Cindy even if you did not like her seeing this video you can see she is sweet and mellow. Doesn’t deserve that level of viciousness does it?
And she is not horse faced. Hardly. Her mom was kind of wild and she did not know her dad really growing up and she turned out beautifully. And it is not an act; it is impossible to fake nice for too long. She comes across as genuine and we don;t hear about her going off at the rails like a lot of her peers. Lay off Liv, B*itch!
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Liv Tyler is lovely.
and is Cindy your real name or is it drusilla?
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she’s beautiful, and always has been…
wonder what’s up cindy’s butt…
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I think she’s a breath of fresh air, not full of herself, and kind. Seems like a good mom too. I had my baby at the same time as hers and it was so nice to see pictures of her at a normal post pregnancy body form. Made us “common folk” feel better!
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LMAO - In what universe is Liv Tyler even remotely “horse faced” or unattractive? She is possibly one of the most beautiful women in existence. Yeesh…
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Some of you are surprised that she is a great person ‘despite her strange childhood’. More often than not it’s the unconventional childhoods that yield interesting and well rounded adults.
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Liv easily puts the majority of her Hollywood counterparts to shame. She’s the best.
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I love how quiet and sweet her voice is. She’s beautiful, inside and out!
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