Liv Tyler’s return: The actress who prefers ironing sheets in the countryside to being crushed by Hollywood

Liv Tyler’s return: The actress who prefers ironing sheets in the countryside to being crushed by Hollywood The ‘Lord of the Rings’ star has returned to photocalls for her role in the latest Marvel film, but for the past five years she has prioritized living quietly with her daughters: ‘Covid changed things and put them into perspective’ Liv Tyler first became known as an actress at 17, as part of the cast of Silent Fall , released in late October 1994. The film didn’t garner much attention, but her beauty did, and she made her big splash just two weeks later when Aerosmith, the band led by her father, Steven Tyler , released the music video for Crazy . The six-minute video, in which Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone play innocent yet mischievous and sensual young women who skip school, ditch their uniforms, and embark on a crazy journey that includes petty theft, dancing in a bar, and abandoning a handsome farmer naked in a lake, became a viral hit on music shows before virality even existed.

From there, Tyler added film and television premieres to her resume year after year, with big roles such as that of the young Lucy in Stealing Beauty (1996) or Arwen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003). The flow of films and television series was constant, until it suddenly stopped. In 2020, she appeared in 10 episodes of the series 9-1-1: Lone Star and then there was nothing.



Until now, five years later. Tyler has returned to the big screen in a big way, as part of Marvel’s new blockbuster, Captain America: Brave New World . “I got a phone call saying, ‘Kevin Feige [president of Marvel Studios] wants to speak to you,’” the actress recalled in a recent interview with Extra .

“I said, ‘Well, doesn’t he want to see me? It’s been a long time!’” she joked. “So they asked me to come back.” And she did so by embodying Betty Ross, a role she previously played alongside Edward Norton in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk .

“I’m very, very excited to be part of the cast and very humbled that they asked me,” she said during the film’s premiere on February 14. But for now, this has been a one-off, and she has no new acting projects on the horizon. “I took a break from acting for the past few years and was home with my daughters.

This film was a lovely way, after Covid and everything else, to come back to something so special,” Tyler admitted. “The family and the character were a perfect way to remind me how much I love acting,” she added, referring to the family formed during filming, with a cast that includes Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford , Shira Haas, and Giancarlo Esposito, among others. A post shared by Marvel Studios (@marvelstudios) Her other family, the one that has been at home with her these past five years, is made up of her daughters Sailor, 10, and Lula, 8, born during her relationship with sports manager David Gardner, from whom she separated in 2021.

Tyler also has another son, Milo, 20, from her marriage to British musician Royston Langdon, to whom she was married between 2003 and 2009. “We [Sailor, Lula and she] went to see Dog Man last week and in the cinema there was a poster [for Captain America: Brave New World] and I thought: ‘Wow, my daughters have never seen me in a movie!’ So I get to take them to the movies and see mommy, which I’m really looking forward to,” she said in the interview. She was around her daughters’ age when she discovered Steven Tyler was her biological father, after her mother, the singer and former model Bebe Buell, confessed to her at an Aerosmith concert.

It was confirmed years later with a paternity test. She grew up convinced she was the daughter of musician Todd Rundgren, who was in a relationship with Buell from 1972 to 1978 (Liv was born in 1977). In interviews, she still refers to them both as her fathers.

“Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through.

The way they think is just different. Their eccentricities have made me more practical and more normal, in a way,” she told The Guardian in 2017. This week, taking advantage of her return to the spotlight thanks to her new film, Tyler participated in her friend Kate Hudson’s podcast, where she spoke about how not being her biological father had affected Rundgren: “I think it’s probably still very hard and painful for him, and we don’t talk about it enough, but I love him.

I have siblings from him and I had a whole family with them.” Being Steven Tyler’s daughter and being given the opportunity to appear in the legendary Crazy music video opened many doors for her, but Liv Tyler has never been one for fame, neither has she inherited the star eccentricity that comes with her surname. She has worked quietly and steadily for years, and now that she has the privilege of being able to spend time with her family, she takes advantage of it.

On her Instagram profile, where she has 2.5 million followers, she doesn’t share pictures of glamorous parties or premieres, and she barely shows any photos of herself. She prefers to post the face of a cat, the backs of her children, or the growth of the flowers in her garden.

Her public appearances since 2020 have also been few and far between, beyond her attendance at New York Fashion Week and an Inter Miami match, which she enjoyed alongside Edward Norton, David Beckham , and their respective children, both in 2024. She has traded the Hollywood spotlight for a life spent among olive trees, chickens, and the tranquility of her home in the Ohai Valley, California, where she says she names the trees and sings to them. “My whole life, I have always wanted to live in the countryside,” she told The Rake in March, in what she said was her first in-depth interview in four years.

“Giving myself a break and a chance to grow and be the mother I always wanted to be has been the best thing I have done for myself.” A post shared by Liv Tyler (@misslivalittle) When, in 2015, two years before the Weinstein scandal , Tyler dared to publicly criticize Hollywood’s ageist tyranny and the abuses women experience in the acting industry, she earned a reputation as a difficult actress. “It’s not fun when you see things start to change.

When you’re in your teens or 20s, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend — a sort of second-class citizen,” she criticized at the time — at age 38 — in The Guardian . Still, what lit the spark for her to retreat to the countryside wasn’t a lack of work, she told The Rake .

“Covid changed things and put them into perspective. It was the first time ever, I thought, that I had no homework to do; before, I always felt like there was something I hadn’t done and I was going to get into trouble. I had just done a T.

V. show in L.A.

where I was away from the kids for six months, and it didn’t feel right. I love acting so much in the moment, when you’re connecting with the crew and the people you work with, but when I got home and we were in that life-or-death situation, there was no question where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be doing. I was getting so much more pleasure out of ironing the sheets or changing the bed.

So having wondered where my passions lay, I started having these ideas,” she explained. Now she’s finally enjoying the peace of the countryside, a peace that has only been interrupted by a lucrative call from the president of Marvel Studios. Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition Tu suscripción se está usando en otro dispositivo ¿Quieres añadir otro usuario a tu suscripción? Si continúas leyendo en este dispositivo, no se podrá leer en el otro.

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