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Liam Interview on Prime Time Live TV: Clip, Caps and Transcript!
Liam discusses Kinsey and Sex in America in an
Interview conducted by Prime Time Live. The clip is
here (zipped wmv file, 9MB). Please rightclick and
save!
Caps and transcript are below.
Credits go to Kathy (clip and caps) and Sally (transcript). Thank you both!!
Caps and transcript are below.
Credits go to Kathy (clip and caps) and Sally (transcript). Thank you both!!
Captures:
Transcript
Interviewer (Introduction):
Next week a special event, when Prime Time Live presents our own land mark study on sex in America. Who's doing what? how often? and where? Even in the work place. We'll reveal that and more in one of the most comprehensive scientific surveys since Alfred Kinsey, who, fifty years ago, let us know that most men masturbate and that women reach their sexual peak in their 30's.
Suddenly everybody's talking about Kinsey including Liam Neeson, who portrays him in a new movie out November 12th called Kinsey.
Film clip:
"who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge a hundred times ?..............Miss?"
"I'm sure I don't know, and you've no right to ask me in a mixed class"
"I was referring to the pupil of your eye, young lady"
(lots of amused chuckling from the rest of the students)
Liam: Kinsey is responsible for letting the genie out of the bottle and you can't put it back in again.
Interviewer: Academy award winner (?!) Liam Neeson sat down for the first time to talk about what he learned from portraying the sexual pioneer, who was Alfred Kinsey.
Liam : We're all groping our way through life and hoping we will be accepted and tolerated and God bless people at Kinsey that kinda shined a light in a murky area of our humanity.
Interviewer: A Zoologist, Kinsey didn't start out studying sex but rather a tiny insect, the gall wasp. Over 20 years he collected 4 million specimens
Film clip:
"I've yet to find a single Gall wasp that's the same as another"
Interviewer: At 28 he married a student played by Laura Linney. On their wedding night, both were virgins.
I have to say one of the finest pieces of acting in the film, I think, was when you were having very bad sex with Laura Linney.
Film clip:
Kinsey: "I'm sorry".
His wife: " no, no, no ".(Meaning don't apology, it's all right)
Interviewer: That must have been hard to do.
Liam: "Oh that was a tough day, yeah".
Film Clip:
Kinsey: "Forgive me mac" (I think, very hard to pick up)
His wife: "I'm sorry, it hurts too much".
Liam: This is their first attempt at making love, having sex and it's, it's.... it's crude, um... painful and embarrassing for both of them and I think audiences, in many incidences will identify with that. He didn't want people to suffer, especially young people.
Interviewer: Did he realize that not talking about it, not understanding it, led to suffering?
Liam: He saw a gap in scientific knowledge that when filled through his research, would benefit mankind. Ultimately, I think he was right.
Interviewer: And so he moved from the science of bugs to the science of the bedroom. Before they were done Professor Kinsey and his team of researchers at Indiana university interviewed 18 thousand Americans about their sex lives.
Film Clip:
"How did you first find out about masturbation?" "I invented it, son"
"How often do you have intercourse ?" "2 or 3 times" "A month?" "No. A day"
"How often do you reach Orgasm?" "Once" "A day?" "NO, only once"
Interviewer: He became as hot as his research, one of the controversial part of Kinsey's actual life is his open marriage, that he encouraged with his research associates.
Liam: I understood it from a scientific point of view that rather than go out and get strangers and say, "excuse me, uh.. would you mind coming in to a laboratory situation so that we could watch you having sex. They said, well no, we can't do that. We have to do it among ourselves and they took films of each other, members of this team having sex.
Interviewer: Not just with their own partners but with others...
Liam: Heterosexual sex, homosexual sex and someone going in and, and uh, holding a finger at their temple with a stop watch taking pulse rates and palpitations of the heart. I mean just very crude, basic science and then some were half way through, the cameras would be switched off and Kinseys wife would come in with tea and sandwiches for everybody.
Film Clip:
"I understand"
Interviewer: Laura Linney says playing Kinsey's wife reinforced for her Kinseys historic importance
Laura Linney: His impact is enormous, and in ways that probably is impossible for us to completely grasp but, he changed this culture.
Interviewer: So there's a moment in the movie where you and another man kiss
Liam: Oh yeah, passionately (chuckles)
Interviewer: Hard to do?
Liam: um.......It was.... I don't want to say it's hard to do, it was.... I, I'm heterosexual. I wanted to do it right and uh,...and not for an audience to see me, Liam Neeson, flinching from kissing another guy.
Film clip:
"The world has wanted this done"
Interviewer: Kinsey became obsessed with understanding first hand the sexual puzzle; he was studying
Film clip:
Reporter: "Mrs Kinsey has your life changed much?"
Mrs Kinsey: "My husbands busier then ever, I hardly see him since he's taken up sex"
Liam: He was a workaholic and sex killed him his, his....
Interviewer (interrupting): "Sex killed him?"
Liam: Basically it did yeah. In the pursuit of trying to bring tolerance and expectance into the world, uh, it killed him
Interviewer: Kinsey in fact died in 1956 at age 62 of over work, a week heart and pneumonia, leaving the Kinsey institute to continue his research. So in part what Kinsey did, was allow us to have a conversation about sexuality in a way that really hadn't happened.
Liam: We can talk about sex, we can use words like masturbation, we can say penis and vagina and people aren't going to jump out of their chairs in embarrassment.
Interviewer: What do you think people get from knowing about others.... because really that's what Kinsey gave us a window into, isn't it.
Liam: People like to feel that they are normal, their like the guy next door, the women next door, that their not some pervert because they , for example masturbate twice a week or three times a week , that their absolutely normal and they can go *phew* I'm okay. I'm a member of the human race. I'm just like everybody else.
Interviewer: And what are the things you've learned by looking at Kinsey, or in fact our study, there is a wide range of normal as well.
Liam: We're all unique , and we're all totally different.
Interviewer: Just like the gall wasp?
Liam: Just like the gall wasp, that's exactly right.
Voiceover:
When we return, Liam Neeson will answer the questions that we ask.
...
What percentage of Americans have sex on the first date? Liam: 60 percent
What percentage of Americans have sex every day ? Liam: I'm stuck on 60 percent
Interviewer: Natasha Richardson has a good life.
What percentage cheated on ther spouse? Liam: 40 percent
What percentage sleeps naked? Liam: 19 percent
What percentage has sex outdoors? Liam: Okay I have to be Kinsey now. Are we talking about Fall? Winter? Spring? Summer? Are we talking Countryside? City?
Voice fades away and a voiceover announces: "He got it all wrong, but he was a real sport".
Transcript
Interviewer (Introduction):
Next week a special event, when Prime Time Live presents our own land mark study on sex in America. Who's doing what? how often? and where? Even in the work place. We'll reveal that and more in one of the most comprehensive scientific surveys since Alfred Kinsey, who, fifty years ago, let us know that most men masturbate and that women reach their sexual peak in their 30's.
Suddenly everybody's talking about Kinsey including Liam Neeson, who portrays him in a new movie out November 12th called Kinsey.
Film clip:
"who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge a hundred times ?..............Miss?"
"I'm sure I don't know, and you've no right to ask me in a mixed class"
"I was referring to the pupil of your eye, young lady"
(lots of amused chuckling from the rest of the students)
Liam: Kinsey is responsible for letting the genie out of the bottle and you can't put it back in again.
Interviewer: Academy award winner (?!) Liam Neeson sat down for the first time to talk about what he learned from portraying the sexual pioneer, who was Alfred Kinsey.
Liam : We're all groping our way through life and hoping we will be accepted and tolerated and God bless people at Kinsey that kinda shined a light in a murky area of our humanity.
Interviewer: A Zoologist, Kinsey didn't start out studying sex but rather a tiny insect, the gall wasp. Over 20 years he collected 4 million specimens
Film clip:
"I've yet to find a single Gall wasp that's the same as another"
Interviewer: At 28 he married a student played by Laura Linney. On their wedding night, both were virgins.
I have to say one of the finest pieces of acting in the film, I think, was when you were having very bad sex with Laura Linney.
Film clip:
Kinsey: "I'm sorry".
His wife: " no, no, no ".(Meaning don't apology, it's all right)
Interviewer: That must have been hard to do.
Liam: "Oh that was a tough day, yeah".
Film Clip:
Kinsey: "Forgive me mac" (I think, very hard to pick up)
His wife: "I'm sorry, it hurts too much".
Liam: This is their first attempt at making love, having sex and it's, it's.... it's crude, um... painful and embarrassing for both of them and I think audiences, in many incidences will identify with that. He didn't want people to suffer, especially young people.
Interviewer: Did he realize that not talking about it, not understanding it, led to suffering?
Liam: He saw a gap in scientific knowledge that when filled through his research, would benefit mankind. Ultimately, I think he was right.
Interviewer: And so he moved from the science of bugs to the science of the bedroom. Before they were done Professor Kinsey and his team of researchers at Indiana university interviewed 18 thousand Americans about their sex lives.
Film Clip:
"How did you first find out about masturbation?" "I invented it, son"
"How often do you have intercourse ?" "2 or 3 times" "A month?" "No. A day"
"How often do you reach Orgasm?" "Once" "A day?" "NO, only once"
Interviewer: He became as hot as his research, one of the controversial part of Kinsey's actual life is his open marriage, that he encouraged with his research associates.
Liam: I understood it from a scientific point of view that rather than go out and get strangers and say, "excuse me, uh.. would you mind coming in to a laboratory situation so that we could watch you having sex. They said, well no, we can't do that. We have to do it among ourselves and they took films of each other, members of this team having sex.
Interviewer: Not just with their own partners but with others...
Liam: Heterosexual sex, homosexual sex and someone going in and, and uh, holding a finger at their temple with a stop watch taking pulse rates and palpitations of the heart. I mean just very crude, basic science and then some were half way through, the cameras would be switched off and Kinseys wife would come in with tea and sandwiches for everybody.
Film Clip:
"I understand"
Interviewer: Laura Linney says playing Kinsey's wife reinforced for her Kinseys historic importance
Laura Linney: His impact is enormous, and in ways that probably is impossible for us to completely grasp but, he changed this culture.
Interviewer: So there's a moment in the movie where you and another man kiss
Liam: Oh yeah, passionately (chuckles)
Interviewer: Hard to do?
Liam: um.......It was.... I don't want to say it's hard to do, it was.... I, I'm heterosexual. I wanted to do it right and uh,...and not for an audience to see me, Liam Neeson, flinching from kissing another guy.
Film clip:
"The world has wanted this done"
Interviewer: Kinsey became obsessed with understanding first hand the sexual puzzle; he was studying
Film clip:
Reporter: "Mrs Kinsey has your life changed much?"
Mrs Kinsey: "My husbands busier then ever, I hardly see him since he's taken up sex"
Liam: He was a workaholic and sex killed him his, his....
Interviewer (interrupting): "Sex killed him?"
Liam: Basically it did yeah. In the pursuit of trying to bring tolerance and expectance into the world, uh, it killed him
Interviewer: Kinsey in fact died in 1956 at age 62 of over work, a week heart and pneumonia, leaving the Kinsey institute to continue his research. So in part what Kinsey did, was allow us to have a conversation about sexuality in a way that really hadn't happened.
Liam: We can talk about sex, we can use words like masturbation, we can say penis and vagina and people aren't going to jump out of their chairs in embarrassment.
Interviewer: What do you think people get from knowing about others.... because really that's what Kinsey gave us a window into, isn't it.
Liam: People like to feel that they are normal, their like the guy next door, the women next door, that their not some pervert because they , for example masturbate twice a week or three times a week , that their absolutely normal and they can go *phew* I'm okay. I'm a member of the human race. I'm just like everybody else.
Interviewer: And what are the things you've learned by looking at Kinsey, or in fact our study, there is a wide range of normal as well.
Liam: We're all unique , and we're all totally different.
Interviewer: Just like the gall wasp?
Liam: Just like the gall wasp, that's exactly right.
Voiceover:
When we return, Liam Neeson will answer the questions that we ask.
...
What percentage of Americans have sex on the first date? Liam: 60 percent
What percentage of Americans have sex every day ? Liam: I'm stuck on 60 percent
Interviewer: Natasha Richardson has a good life.
What percentage cheated on ther spouse? Liam: 40 percent
What percentage sleeps naked? Liam: 19 percent
What percentage has sex outdoors? Liam: Okay I have to be Kinsey now. Are we talking about Fall? Winter? Spring? Summer? Are we talking Countryside? City?
Voice fades away and a voiceover announces: "He got it all wrong, but he was a real sport".
Posted: So - Oktober 17, 2004 at 11:47 nachm.