Liev Schreiber, the Worst Husband: “How Many Secrets Are There in a Marriage? It Depends on Whether You Like Them or Not”

Lieutenant Schreiber he is the husband that no one would want. We are talking about The Perfect Couplethe most watched series on Netflix at the moment. He is the toxic man to the nth degree: rich for generations, serial cheater, with children just to bring into the world and then not take care of them. Almost at the end of the last episode, after having done all sorts of things, he says to his wife (an as always extraordinary Nicole Kidman): “It never occurred to me that you would actually leave me.” In the background, villas, gin and tonics and the sea of ​​the island of Nantucket.

A scene from The Perfect Couple

When asked about it, the actor smiles, clears his throat and explains: «I am the worst and the best husband. I am hopelessly in love and at the same time incredibly incapable of being in a couple”. And when it comes to talking about feelings, Liev, 56 years old and a life in Hollywood, doesn’t hold back. “How many secrets are there in a marriage? It depends on whether you like them or not, it depends on you”. Behind him there is a very long relationship that ended with Naomi Wattsmother of his two teenage children. They remained on excellent terms, so much so that to shoot this mini-series Kidman first asked her lifelong friend Watts for advice. “We talk all the time, we’re best friends. It was very kind of her to do this,” the Australian actress explained at the Toronto Film Festival.

Schreiber’s current wife is named Taylor Neisen, took her to the red carpet of The Perfect Couple, perhaps also to distance himself from the hideous Tag Winbury. Together they had a daughter, Hazel Bee, born in August 2023, shortly before the actor began filming the Netflix series. What did he learn about love from Tag? Schreiber has no doubts: «I came home with a very dark but also comical perspective on couple life but I had just had a baby, so I also saw a light on the horizon,” she continued. “What makes a perfect couple is continuity, the desire to nurture the feeling. If you agree that love is the goal, the ultimate goal of life, then all that remains is to nurture it. And never take it for granted.” We only take it as good if it’s Liev’s advice and not Tag’s.

Liev Schreiber with wife Taylor Neisen

Liev Schreiber with wife Taylor Neisen

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Lieutenant Schreiber

Lieutenant Schreiber

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Liev Schreiber and Nicole Kidman

Liev Schreiber and Nicole Kidman

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Source: Vanity Fair

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