I think I had a lot of worries and anxieties about what it would be like to be the child of someone like me. “I love being a mum, it’s really absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me. Her decision to take time out to be with her son was, she says with a heartfelt smile, the best thing she has done and her return to work - next month sees the release of her first post-Milo film Reign Over Me(in which she stars with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle) has been like a ‘rebirth’. Milo’s arrival was a welcome interruption to a working life that had started when she became a model at fourteen and had progressed through to an illustrious acting career that has involved major roles in a trench of films including Bertolucci’s Stealing Beauty and, most famously, the Lord of the Rings trilogy (Liv played Arwen Undomiel). Indeed Liv is so terribly polite that even though she is keen to talk about cosmetics (she is passionate about make-up and adores her role with Givenchy) she dutifully answers questions on a number of other topics most of which seem to lead back to Milo William Langdon her, two and a half year old son by her British musician husband Royston Langdon (formerly with Spacehog and now fronting, with his brother, a new band called Arkid).
It’s so rare and so nice when people do just follow the basic rules of etiquette, however clichéd, like acknowledging someone you meet for the first time, asking them how they are - it makes life so much easier,” she says as she sits down to talk about the launch of the new couture range of Givenchy Rouge Interdit lipsticks. “My grandmother raised me to have good manners and it’s something I find really attractive in people.
Indeed there is something unexpectedly formal - and not a little old fashioned - about the way the 29-year-old actress shakes your hand, inquires after your health and proceeds to worry about whether you would like tea, coffee or iced water.Įverything about her - from the way she walks (as if she had spent years with books on her head) to the way she talks (the closest she gets to an expletive is the occasional outburst of ‘oh gosh!’) - is exactly what you would not expect from a girl whose heritage is pure rock and roll (father is Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and mother is rock muse and Playboy’s Miss November 1974 Bebe Buell).īut then, as she points out with a ravishing smile, she is also the granddaughter of Dorothea Johnson, author of The Little Book of Etiquette and founder of The Protocol School of Washington. The first thing you notice about Liv Tyler isn’t her beauty (she is, after all, the stunning face of Givenchy Cosmetics) or her stature (she’s well over six feet in her heels) but her perfect, perfect manners.
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