Believe it or not, the initial rumors of an alleged affair between Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber went nowhere. I don’t know why - I think they’re both pretty sexy (to me), and imagining the two of them getting hot and heavy works for me. Maybe Liev isn’t tabloid-friendly enough. Or maybe there was nothing there and the tabloids just left it alone? Nah, it’s probably the tabloid friendly thing.

Anyway, there’s not a major story to go with what I’m seeing, I just thought I’d mention it - I think Liev has a little crush on Angelina. Not a “Oh my God, he’s going to leave Naomi Watts so that he and Angelina can raise a pack of gerbils together” kind of crush, just a little professional respect and sweetness and maybe some inappropriate staring. I noticed it when I was looking at photos of Angelina interacting with Liev and Naomi at the premiere, and there are some interesting quotes from Schreiber too:

What was it like working with Angelina Jolie?
Liev Schreiber: I hadn’t known her very well, at all. In the beginning, I think I was very intimidated and kind of nervous. I get uncomfortable around famous people and beautiful women, and she was kind of a double threat. This was a big double whammy for me and initially really uncomfortable, which was worrying me. I felt like the important part of the job for me was to develop familiarity with her because that was the humanizing factor. But then we bonded over kids very quickly. I have 2 small kids and she has 2 small kids and it quickly became, “Oh you’re doing time-outs now? That’s just teething.” And all the sexual tension went out of the room. All the anxiety about her being very famous and a super-human celebrity kind of went away and I found this very nice easy person that I could relate to.

Angelina’s co-star Liev has revealed the pleasure he got out of watching her:
“She fights very dirty… I love spy stories, especially when they’re done as intelligently as this one is, and the action stuff is… well I think that’s one of the guilty pleasures of being a guy – watching beautiful women pull off these action things. The stuff that Angie can do, physically, is remarkable.”

On her “flaw”:
“She’s a lot shorter than I thought she would be, but I was pleased by that,” says her “Salt” co-star Liev Schreiber, who, at 6-foot-3, is one of the few who would find 5-foot-8 Jolie tiny. “I’m happy there was a flaw. Having said that, I think Angelina is pretty talented. And a remarkable human being, and a great mom. She’s definitely not like any other lady I know.”

[Various Quotes, from sources: NYDN, Music Rooms/Total Film, WaPo]

Totally crushing, right? I’m not sure a dude would talk that way about another dude, even if there was a lot of professional respect. Once again, I’m not saying Naomi (or Brad, for that matter) has anything to be worried about. It’s just interesting. ZOMG SCANDAL.

Back in April, there were some rumors flying around that Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber were on the verge of splitting up. The reports at the time seemed to indicate that Liev was kind of douche, and that Naomi was tired of dealing with him. They have two young sons, and the whole thing was kind of sad, although both seemed to make an effort to deny that they were having problems, and they stayed together for the time being. I theorized at the time that if someone wanted to start a rumor about Schreiber and his Broadway costar Scarlett Johansson, I would be up for it. Anyway, long story short, the “impending breakup” rumors have started anew. The NYDN claims that Liev has flown to Tahiti to get some space while he considers their relationship.

When there is trouble in paradise, head to another one. That seems to be Liev Schreiber’s plan.

A source close to the actor says Schreiber took an early-morning flight yesterday out of Newark to Palm Beach, where he boarded a private plane to Tahiti for “about a week.”

Schreiber is traveling with friends, but the source says one purpose of the trip is to contemplate the state of his five-year relationship with Australian actress Naomi Watts, who will soon portray CIA spy Valerie Plame on the big screen in “Fair Game.”

According to the source, Schreiber, who has two sons with Watts, is technically “together” with the blond beauty, and the couple have appeared in public frequently, most recently at the Tony Awards and a Shakespeare in the Park gala.

But, the source adds, the two have not been getting along lately and Schreiber has decided he needs some space from tensions at home.

Schreiber, who stars alongside Angelina Jolie in the spy flick “Salt” next month, was scheduled to be in Cancun for the big-budget blockbuster’s press junket.

But our insider says the actor is skipping the publicity-go-round for some free time away from work and family, to “sort things out mentally.”

A rep for Schreiber calls our story “ridiculous,” saying: “Liev went on a diving trip with a group of friends, and his boys are too young to go.”

But isn’t that what nannies are for?

[From The New York Daily News]

Hm… I don’t know. I would like to think that they’re very solid, but I’m honestly surprised that they’ve made it work thus far. They’re two working actors, and they both work constantly. Back in April, there was a theory that Schreiber didn’t like being with someone more famous than him, but I don’t know. People know who he is, don’t they? I’ve always liked him as an actor too - and I find him sexy. But will I still like him if he dumps Naomi? Eh. His image might take a hit. But he’s never billed himself as Mr. Family-Friendly, so I think he’ll be okay.

Header: Liev and Naomi at the Tonys on June 13, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Yikes! One of my favorite undercover couples may be on the verge of splitting up! A very, very gossipy “source” close to Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts went to Radar and basically wouldn’t shut up about all of the problems they’re having. Naomi and Liev have two sons together - Alexander (or Sasha) who will be three years old in July, and Samuel (Sammy), who is about 16 months old. Liev and Naomi have been together since the spring of 2005, and although I really thought they were married, it looks like they never did make it official. Naomi admited last year that Liev had given her a ring, but that they weren’t too concerned with getting hitched.

As far as Radar’s source, and whether or not this source is just talking out of his or her ass (I think it’s a her, because the source seems to be identifying with Naomi and bashing Liev), I’ll let you be the judge. I think there might be something here, though:

Rumors have been swirling for years about whether Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts are married or not. But it seems that any speculation surrounding their relationship could soon be moot, as a source tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that the New York based couple, who have two sons together, are going through a rough patch.

“Liev is kind of arrogant and snobby,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com. “And it grates on him that Naomi has the higher profile, bigger, better career and higher earnings.

“Despite the rumors that are out there, they are not married, and they haven’t talked marriage plans in a good two years.”

“They’ve already been through two real relationship crisis’s, in January 2008 when Heath Ledger died and then last Spring/Summer time, and they came extremely close to splitting but they decided to go to couples’ counseling and work it out for the sake of the kids. When Heath died it really rocked Naomi’s world and she totally withdrew. Liev just isn’t the kind of guy who will hold Naomi’s hand to get her through a tough period. Instead he acts like he doesn’t need the relationship and can walk out at anytime. But he better be careful because if he keeps it up he could lose Naomi and I do think that would devastate him.”

“But, it looks like they’re slowly deteriorating, and finding themselves back in a bad place once again. Basically, it’s a total clash of the egos between the two of them. It’s always tough to make a relationship work when it’s between an actor and actress. Both tend to be self-obsessed to a degree, and Naomi and Liev fit that description to a T.”

“Liev would like Naomi to take more of a back seat when it comes to her career, he wants to be the major star and breadwinner and he would like her to be more of a stay at home mom. But Naomi knows that her movie making days are running out fast and she wants to capitalize on her looks and fame while she still can - while she’s still young enough.”

“Plus she loves being an actress, and loves the validation she gets from the fans and the critics. They’re kind of in a no win situation and basically at a stalemate, neither side wants to budge or compromise. I really don’t see how they are going to work this one out and reach a resolution that keeps both sides happy.”

“I know for a fact that if they didn’t have the kids they would of split a long time ago. It seems that now, the only thing holding them together is their two sons, who they both love very dearly. Unfortunately, it seems that they no longer love each other very dearly though.”

[From Radar]

I always wondered how Liev felt about his girlfriend/partner being so devastated at the loss of her former boyfriend. I have no doubt that Naomi was distraught when Heath died, and I also would think that Liev’s ego would take a hit. Still, I like them so much as a couple, and I really want to believe that Liev can handle his girlfriend’s fame and career, and that he’s wants a partnership of equals. Maybe not though.

Quite honestly, my first thoughts when I skimmed the article for the first time was that Liev was screwing around. My first guess was Angelina Jolie - Jolie and Schreiber worked together last year on Salt, but the tabloid gossip about any hookup between them ended pretty quickly. Now, Liev has been on Broadway with Scarlett Johansson the past few months… what do you think? I little ScarJo-Liev action? That would be juicy. And tragic. But juicy!

Here’s Liev and ScarJo. It could be happening:

And here are some cute photos of Liev with his sons, out and about in New York on Friday. Those boys really take after their mom, don’t they?

Angelina Jolie filmed Salt, a Phillip Noyce-directed spy thriller, this past spring. It’s not coming out in America until next summer (July 23, apparently) but we can enjoy this just-released Russian trailer for the film. I swear, at first I thought it was really Angelina and Liev Schrieber speaking in Russian together about their spy junk. But the trailer is actually dubbed. Nuts! The trailer also includes some pretty cool-looking stunt work, and there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-him shot of one of my favorites, Chiwetel Ejiofor. I love Liev too. Good stuff! EW has more:

The first peek at Angelina Jolie’s Salt has a serious Russian accent. That’s not just because Jolie plays a CIA officer who may or may not be a a Russian sleeper agent (shades of No Way Out). The first online trailer is actually for the film’s Russian release, so have fun with the dialogue, apparently dubbed by Nikolai Volkoff.

The film’s action transcends any language barrier, nyet? Director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) seems to be borrowing heavily from the Bourne films, and Jolie has a solid track record as an action star (though her Matrix-climb-the-wall-drop-kick at 1:41 was rather low on the vertical).

Are you smitten with Jolie in any language? Does Salt, out in the U.S. next July, solidify her as the only bankable female action hero?

[From Entertainment Weekly]

Salt is the first time Angelina and director Noyce have worked together since The Bone Collector. While I didn’t love that film, I’ve read that Angelina and Noyce enjoyed working together on that film, and they were very happy to connect for Salt.

My least favorite part about this trailer? Angelina’s sketchy wig work. These wigs are f-cking awful. Well… the black one with the bangs isn’t terrible, but that blonde one has to go. Whose f-cking idea was that?

UPDATE: Here’s the English-language Salt trailer:

Here’s Angelina in “Salt.” Images thanks to All Movie Photo.

The next stopover on the Brangelina Express will be to Long Island, where Angelina Jolie will be filming Salt. The family will be moving there shortly, most likely to the enormous Sassafras estate, where Maddox Jolie-Pitt will assign his siblings their rooms.

Even though Salt is very close to its start date, the casting is still being finalized. As it turns out, one of my favorite actors is in negotiations to co-star with Angie in a “major role” in the film - Liev Schreiber! Liev may be familiar because he’s Naomi Watts’ baby-daddy and arm-candy at all of her recent public appearances. I love him for such films as A Walk on the Moon, Sphere and Spring Forward and his numerous stage appearances. He’s also going to be in X-Men: Origins with Hugh Jackman, coming out later this year. AHN has more:

Liev Schreiber is in talks to join Angelina Jolie in the upcoming action-thriller flick “Salt.” The 41-year-old actor is said to be up for a “major role” in the film.

According to moviehole.net, he is in negotiation to appear in the film, which starts filming next month in New York.

Jolie, who reunites with “Bone Collector” director Phillip Noyce in the film, will be playing the title character, a CIA officer who is falsely accused of being a Russian sleeper spy and must escape capture to prove her innocence.

Tom Cruise was originally tapped to play Salt, though the character was changed to a female to suit Jolie.

Schreiber will next be seen in “X-Men: Origins” alongside Hugh Jackman and in “Taking Woodstock” later this year.

From All Headline News (AHN)

Thus far, there have been several smallish controversies involving Salt. The simple fact that Tom Cruise was ousted by a girl being one, plus the rumor that Angelina “demanded” script changes like… a character name change. I hope the Liev rumor is for real (I think it is), because Liev and Angelina would be really good together. He’s a really big guy, so Angelina wouldn’t be able to kick his ass with the ease she usually shows. Although watching her try to kick his ass would be pretty awesome.

Note by Celebitchy: There’s also a story from Life & Style that Angelina’s character in Salt will be going undercover as a man.

Angelina, 33, films a scene as a CIA agent forced to go undercover as a man — call her Mangelina! Her undercover alter ego is Major Vicek, whose mission is to infiltrate The White House. “I’m sure she’ll give Brad, who aged in reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a run for his money in the makeup department,” an insider tells Life & Style. As Life & Style previously reported, Angelina will temporarily move her brood to New York’s Long Island to film Edwin A. Salt.

[From Life & Style received via e-mail]

Naomi Watts, who has just had a second son in December, wants another one, but her partner, Liev Schreiber, isn’t quite on board yet:

She says, “I love babies. I look at this little baby and, even after quite an intense birth - they say you have amnesia, as women - I would go a third. It would be nice to have a girl.”

But the star may have to persuade her partner if she wants another child, adding, “You should see our house. It’s pretty chaotic right now and I keep making fun of Liev because he keeps walking around going, ‘No more babies, no more babies’, like Rain Man or something.”

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Naomi, there’s only one small problem - you don’t get to pick the gender. Even though there are people who absolutely claim that you can choose the gender of your child through diet, your choice of underpants, and the phase of the moon you conceive, I hear they’re only right about 50% of the time.

Naomi also says that she’s succeeded where many women fail - expressing breast milk at work.

She explains, “It was a struggle and you don’t have the foresight particularly the first time around as to how difficult it would be until you’re there.

“I was still nursing my baby at that point and we were shooting at night in the freezing cold and I wasn’t going to have him in the trailer and on the set, so I would be expressing milk and sending it back to the hotel and then having to feed him all day the next day, when I should have been sleeping, so it was definitely a challenge.”

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One of the biggest myths of motherhood would have to be that breastfeeding is natural (that part is true enough) and therefore easy. I used to volunteer for a group that helped new mothers, who would often come in for help, absolutely devastated at the fact they had failed to breastfeed, or keep it up on returning to work. Kudos to Naomi for managing it.

Naomi and partner Liev Schreiber have sons Alexander, 19 months, and Samuel, 2 months.

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are shown out on their bikes in Brentwood, CA, on 1/31/09. Some shots show their son with them and others, taken at another point in the day, show them bringing home groceries home using their bike trailer. Credit: WENN

Naomi Watts has given an interview to Parade magazine, and rather than refuse to talk about her relationship with Liev Schreiber and the death of her former flame Heath Ledger, she didn’t shy away from the subject at all.

On Heath Ledger:

“I hadn’t really been that familiar with his work,” Watts recalls. “Then, when I got to the set and did that first scene with him, I was like, ‘Wow! This guy is alive.’ It was just something deep in his eyes. You could look into them, and they would tell a thousand stories in one glance. There was a wonderful mixture of power and fragility at work in everything he did, which just pulls you in. His strength didn’t scare you. It intrigued you. And his fragility touched you.”

The couple parted amicably in 2004, separated by the distance of two growing careers, but stayed friends until Ledger’s tragic death from an accidental overdose in early 2008 at age 28. “It’s still incredibly difficult,” Watts says, her voice trailing off.

On her relationship with Liev Schreiber:

In 2005, she connected with Liev Schreiber, a powerful actor in his own right. “I started out living in L.A., and then I met this guy who hates L.A.!” Watts says, laughing. Her partner’s dark intensity compelled that side of her own personality. “He’s a complicated man, which I’ve always been drawn toward in men,” she says. “He’s fiercely intelligent.”

Watts refuses to say when or even if she and Schreiber will conventionalize their relationship. “It’s not like I’ve grown up having this dream of a fairy-tale wedding,” she says. “My mother married twice and had two divorces. And Liev comes from the same kind of background. Maybe one day we’ll just wake up and go, ‘Hey, let’s do this.’ And maybe not. He and I have a family. We’re very much together. We just don’t have that certificate, and that’s okay with both of us. He gave me a beautiful ring, although I’m not wearing it right now.”

Parade

To say that Liev Schreiber comes from a similar background of divorced parents is underplaying the truth a little. Liev’s parent’s were involved in a custody dispute, which resulted in his father kidnapping him briefly, before a court battle which saw him returned to his mother. He spent a brief stint of his childhood in a commune, then an ashram, and going by a Hindu name. I don’t think these are the typical experiences of a divorced child.

However, I see Naomi’s point, which is that for some children of divorced parents who couldn’t maintain a friendship, the family unit is more important than the piece of paper.

Naomi talks about her start in Hollywood:

“It was awful,” she says. Her defense was to try to become someone else: “Be the pretty girl, the funny girl, the sexy girl, be whatever it was they wanted,” Watts recalls. It didn’t take her far. “You get to a point where you’ve become that person for that day, and you dilute your personality to the point where it’s actually nonexistent. You walk into a room, and you don’t know who you are or who you should be, and they can’t connect with you because it’s not a truth.”

But Kidman, who was starting to get important movie roles, encouraged her. “I remember many times saying, ‘Oh, I just can’t do it. I’m going to wrap it up and call it a day.’ And Nicole would say, ‘Hang in there.’ She told me that it just takes one thing—and she was right in the end.”

In 2000, director David Lynch (Twin Peaks) was searching for the lead actress for his next movie, Mulholland Drive. Lynch was looking through a pile of publicity photos when something about Watts’ face stopped him. He called her in.

“I felt he was genuinely interested,” Watts remembers. “He wanted to know about my family. It was just conversation, and I wasn’t used to having that, and I felt myself relax. I let him get rid of all those façades that I had built up over the years.”

Parade

I love that Naomi and Nicole have maintained a relationship right through their teens to middle age, despite the fact that Nicole married a superstar and went to Hollywood while Naomi stayed home in Australia and did small roles. Parade implies that she was a small fish in a big pond here, but I honestly can’t think of anything I’ve seen her in prior to ‘Mulholland Drive’, even though looking at her IMBD page I have definitely seen some of those Australian films.

Liev Schreiber and his older son, Alexander Pete, 18 months, are shown out in Brentwood and Santa Monica on 1/29/09. Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are shown out together in Brentwood with their baby, Samuel Kai, six weeks, in a carrier on 1/28/09. Credit: Fame

Liev Schreiber is one of those really talented actors who finds a balance between a steady, interesting career and a quiet yet star-powered coupling with a fellow working actor. Liev’s partner is Naomi Watts, who just gave birth to their second son, and they seem really happy together. Liev’s career is filled with character roles in big movies and steady work on Broadway and off-Broadway theatre roles. Liev used to be one of my favorite actors (I’ve since moved on to actors like Clive Owen and Daniel Craig.) Most people will recognize him from the Scream franchise (he played Cotton Weary), but I can make a few recommendations for some of Liev’s best work: A Walk on the Moon (with Diane Lane) and Spring Forward (with Ned Beatty).

Liev’s two latest roles couldn’t be more different. First up, he co-stars in Defiance, that film about Jews who hide out in the woods during the Holocaust, also starring Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell. After that, Liev plays second fiddle (Sabretooth) to Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins, the untold story of the X-Men’s Wolverine. Liev’s been doing some press for Defiance, and most of it is as depressing as you’d think promoting a Holocaust movie could be, but I found this one interview in Britain’s Times that was a little shocking. Liev had a *really* screwed up childhood.

His acting, he says, has complicated roots and comes from a childhood that is infamously dysfunctional. A simple précis couldn’t possibly capture the texture of it (the essayist and writer John Lahr tried to do just this in a lengthy New Yorker magazine profile of Schreiber in 1999). The key points include an early divorce between Schreiber’s blueblood father Tell and his Jewish former communist mother Heather; some time in an upstate New York commune with Heather; Tell kidnapping Schreiber back from Heather; a custody battle won by Heather, followed by a childhood for Schreiber dominated by his mother’s penury (they frequently had no electricity, hot water, or even beds).

He endured her mood swings and bohemian proclivities (she made him take Hindu names, wear yoga shirts, and he was forced, briefly, to go to an Ashram school in Connecticut when he was 12). It culminated in a fractured ankle during football practice at Brooklyn Tech in 1984, when the 17-year-old Schreiber was forced to turn away from sports and eventually towards the stage.

Acting, says Schreiber, is therapy. “I may have been working out my relationship with my mother and my father all along, and I probably will be for the rest of my life. But then that’s one of the luxuries of being an actor — it’s about self-exploration.”

He is now based in Manhattan and in a long-term relationship with fellow actor Naomi Watts, and his life at the moment is defined by the couple’s two infant children, Sasha, 17 months, and four-week-old Samuel Kai. “Remember that voyage of self-exploration I was talking so fondly about just then?” he says, chuckling to himself. “Well it just ends. You go, ‘Awhh sh-t! No more me time!’” He then sighs and quietly confesses: “I am struggling, though. It’s f***ing hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. But then they do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.”

[From The Times]

Yeesh. A communist mother, a kidnapping, a commune *and* an ashram? You couldn’t write this stuff. I always wonder about people who had extremely messed-up childhoods. Do they work extra hard to give their own kids the “normal” childhood they never had? Or do they screw up their own kids in the same old ways? In the interview, Liev also takes more about X-Men Origins, and his future theatre and film roles.

Schreiber’s next role is even more action-packed — he stars as the mutant supervillain Sabretooth opposite Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the comic blockbuster X-Men Origins this summer. The role, which required four months of bulking up and working out (transforming his already imposing 6ft 3in frame into a thing of hulking beauty), is the final step in Schreiber’s transformation from a man who’s all brains into one with muscles too.

“I like to think I’m part of the new Obama transition,” he says, tongue deeply in cheek. “Obama is hermetically intelligent, he knows what he wants and he never screws up. So maybe now there’s room for intelligent action heroes too.”

The real kick here is the sheer breadth of Schreiber’s professional evolution. A Tony award-winning stage dynamo, he has repeatedly wowed New York critics and crowds alike with his headlining Shakespearean roles (from Cymbeline to Hamlet to Henry V and beyond) since graduating from Yale School of Drama in 1992. “I do think there is some truth to the notion that you have little to fear from any role if you can comfortably break down a Shakespearean soliloquy,” he says, without false modesty.

Furthermore, he adds, children give you some much needed perspective on your work. Because despite the fact that he has a summer blockbuster on the way, and a romantic comedy with Helen Hunt called Every Day, plus a Jude Law sci-fi film, Repossession Mambo, he is still wildly unsure of his career prospects. “You can never be comfortable as an actor,” he says. “It’s like Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. The minute you name an event it ceases to exist. It’s like that with acting. The minute you say you’re happy with your career, it’s gone. Over.”

[From The Times]

Definition alert! The Heisenberg Principle is that the act of observing an event, changes the event. Not exactly Liev’s definition, but I understand where he’s coming from. I understand how Liev can be nervous about the stability of his career, especially with two young children at home. Hopefully, Liev’s star continues to rise, and his happy remains as happy and healthy as it is now.

Liev Schreiber is shown on 1/7/09 at a Defiance photocall in France. Credit: WENN

As Helen reported earlier, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber had their second child, a baby boy, yesterday. They have not released details of the baby’s name, height or weight. The newborn joins brother Alexander Pete Schrieber, 17 months.

Naomi, 40, has a new interview in In Touch published this week in which she talked about her struggle to find the right man before having children. She said that she “found myself at a place in my life where I’d given up on the idea of finding my soulmate and becoming a mother” before she met Liev, 41. It was a happy ending for Watts, but she is candid about the fact that she was so focused on a career she was afraid of losing that she didn’t think her dream of motherhood would come true:

Watts: “I went through hell for many years struggling to get work. Then when I had a career I threw so much of myself into my work that I didn’t leave much time for me. Now my life is in this very beautiful place and it’s all good.”

When did you know you wanted to start a family?
“It wasn’t until my thirties. Of course, that was when I was totally driven by my career because I’d waited so long for the chance to work that I couldn’t bear the thought of stopping for any length.”

What were you afraid of?
“There was this fear that I’d better take advantage of every opportunity because maybe it would all go away.”

In what ways has motherhood changed you?
“I feel so rich inside. I’m so blessed. Ever since my son was born I have felt this tremendous sense of reward and pure joy from being a part of his little world and watching him grow.”

You sound so fulfilled
“It’s almost frightening for me to think now that if I hadn’t met Liev, I might never have a child of my own.”

[From In Touch, print edition, December 22, 2008]

You don’t often hear actresses speaking so frankly about the stresses of finding and keeping work. Some actresses talk about the difficulty getting work after 40, but it sounds like even when Watts was at the top of her game she was worried about her future. It’s got to be a tough career to say the least, especially for the majority of actors and actresses that don’t make it.

As for her future plans, Watts says “I’ll work whenever something really sensational comes along and spend the rest of the time being very nurturing.”

Watts will next star in The International with Clive Owen. It’s out in the US on February 13. She also has three films in pre-production, Need with Nicole Kidman, King Lear with Keira Knightley and Gwyneth Paltrow, and the aptly named Mother and Child, with Annette Bening and Kerry Washington. It’s due to being filming early next year.

Congratulations to Watts and Schreiber on their new arrival. It sounds like Watts was waiting for a long time to be a mother and now she’s been doubly blessed.

Naomi Watts And Liev Schreiber are shown out on 11/26/08. Credit: Fame

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have welcomed their second child, a baby boy, on Saturday in New York.

“I can confirm Naomi and Liev had a baby boy yesterday,” said the actress’s rep.

A couple since 2005, Watts, 40, and Schreiber, 41, already have a baby boy, Alexander Pete Schreiber, born July 26, 2007.

[From People]

There is no word on the baby’s weight or name, their previous son was named Pete after Naomi’s father. Wiki reports that the boy is named Nicholas Isaac, but the source listed doesn’t actually reveal the baby’s name. If that’s their new son’s name, they’ve chosen something sensible and classic that defies the unusual baby name trend.

Naomi and Liev declined to sell their first son’s baby pictures, although they happily allowed him to be photographed at two weeks of age when shopping at Brentwood Country Mart. Naomi has also never confirmed either pregnancy, allowing her blossoming belly to do the talking for her.

Congratulations to Naomi and Liev on their new arrival!

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are shown on 10/12, 10/13, and 10/23. Naomi is shown alone at the NY premiere of Australia on 11/24/08. Credit: WENN. Header image credit: PRPhotos