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Liam on Leno, Dec 3, 2004
On Dec 3, 2004, Liam appeared on the Leno Show.
Clips are here: Clip one and two .
Thanks to
Kathy!
They talked about Liam's recent trip to China with his two sons, crickets fight, shoes, boxing .. and of course Kinsey the movie. Transcript follows below. Thanks, Sally!
They talked about Liam's recent trip to China with his two sons, crickets fight, shoes, boxing .. and of course Kinsey the movie. Transcript follows below. Thanks, Sally!
Transcript:
Jay Leno: Welcome back, everybody! We have a terrific show tonight: uh … one of my favorite actors, Liam Neeson, is on his way out; and from the new movie Beyond the sea, the Bobby Darrin Story, we got … Kate Bosworth is here; and music from Damien Rice. He does that great song In the Closer …
Eubank: Uh, cool. (voice only)
Leno: And on Monday, Kevin Spacey, Clay Aiken, and next week, Oceans 12. We got Clooney, we got Matt Damon, we got Catherine Zeta-Jones … that’s Oceans 12, everybody. Here we go. My first guest, Oscar nominated actor, his films include of course Schindler’s List and Stars Wars Episode 1, now starring in Kinsey which is in theatres right now. Please welcome Liam Neeson! Good to see you.
Liam: Good to see you too, Jay.
Leno: Now, where are you back from? Some place exotic? Was it China? Shanghai?
Liam: I just got back from Shanghai in China, yeah!
Leno: Okay, well, that’s very cool.
Liam: Interesting, interesting place.
Leno: Now, what brought you to Shanghai?
Liam: Well, my wife’s making a merchant ivory film there at the minute …
Leno: Okay.
Liam: … with our friend Ralph Fiennes. Her mom, Vanessa Redgrave, is in it, her aunt, Lynn Redgrave, is in it, so, big family affair.
Leno: Big family reunion?
Liam: So I went over with our two boys, and, uh ... have you ever been there, Jay?
Leno: I haven’t been to Shanghai. I’ve been to China … I’ve been to Chinatown here, but I’m told it’s quite different.
Liam: Well, I have to tell you the Chinese takeaway is very very good.
Leno: Really, really! You get good Chinese food from everywhere these days.
Liam: Really, really good, but the interesting thing I brought my two kids out to … uh … just life in the street there is fantastic! And everybody, every shop trader, they all barter! So you kinda go up and you see some piece of junk that you wouldn’t buy anywhere, you know, and say, "how much?" And they give you a calculator and then they put like a hundred which is 8 dollars in our currency, you know. And you go, "Pooh, you must be joking!" And you put in twenty, and they go, "Ha, ha, ha, very funny!" But my kids get so into this, and you end up buying these things for fifty cents each.
Leno: Did you buy any?
Liam: I came back with these Chairman Mau watches. On the face of the watch, there is Chairman Mau doing this here.
Leno: I guess they have a lot of leftover. We’ve got some Eisenhower watches we could sell too. So how many did you buy?
Liam: I think I have about 12.
Leno: You bought them because they were cheap?
Liam: Well, because they are good stocking fillers, you know … with Christmas coming up and stuff. And they’re kinda fun, you know.
Leno: So, how much did you pay the equivalent of each one?
Liam: Uh … I think about … well, actually, 12 watches is about 15 bucks and I still wanted to bargain him down.
Leno: And you give them as gifts?
Liam: Yeah!
Leno You cheap bastard! Oh, you know my uncle, he’s in movies, he’s got an Oscar nomination, he gave me this 50 cent watch ….
Liam: Everybody is …
Leno: That’s lovely, lovely gift …
Liam: No, it’s true, oh dear, dear, that’s awful.
Leno: Now, I heard something … cricket fighting. Do you know what that is?
Liam: We went to this little pet market, right? And, uh, they have these fighting crickets. So, they put two crickets into like a kinda of a gold fish bowl and they touch them with a little stick. And these crickets have like little fangs.
Leno: Yeah.
Liam: And they start doing this and start attacking each other. So they lay bets on them, you know. And, uh, I know its sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But they really look vicious, you know.
Leno: So, let me see … you have your family, you take your family to probably the oldest culture … there’s Chinese art … where do you take them? To see a fifty cent watch and a cricket fight!!!
Liam: And a couple of good meals. And we did do all the tourist attractions.
Leno: I know. And how many people gather? Is it legal, cricket fighting?
Liam: Well, you know, I wanted to think that it wasn’t, but then I thought, “Come on, crickets?” But they were guys laying bets and they all circled round and money was thrown down. And they start the contest and they touch these guys, and they go at each other.
Leno: Well, how do you know when the fight is over? Is it a fight to the death?
Liam: Well, here’s what happens to them …
Leno: And that’s it?
Liam: Literally they turn over and they are dead. And the winner is whipped out and put in a box. I bought these little boxes too. Very expensive.
Leno: Do you barter those down, too?
Liam: Yeah, I did, but they keep these crickets in them.
Leno: Now, your sons … were they … they must have been amazed at this.
Liam: They did, yeah, they did!
Leno: Are they sports fans, your kids? Do they like sports?
Liam: They do. They like hockey.
Leno: Hockey? Non-traditional, not cricket fighting.
Liam: Not cricket and hurling which is Irelands national sport.
Leno: Hurling, isn’t that a drinking game in Ireland? You hurl?
Liam: It’s played with a curly stick.
Leno: What is hurling? You throw something? How does that work?
Liam: It’s like two teams of fifteen men, you have goal posts like rugby or American football, and it’s actually the fastest field game in the world.
Leno: You kick it? You throw it?
Liam: No, it’s played with these sticks.
Leno: Oh, you just chase each other with sticks. They’re not into baseball or …
Liam: No, they’re not, thanks be to God, nor am I, either.
Leno: Just the Irish games. You were once a fighter … this always amazed me. My dad was a boxer.
Liam: Right.
Leno: And you were a Boxer?
Liam: Right.
Leno: Do your kids fight? Do you teach them how?
Liam: I’m beginning to, yeah!
Leno: You want them to fight?
Liam: No, no, I don’t really, but I want them to throw a good left jab. And maybe a good right cross.
Leno: In case a cricket jumps them on the street.
Liam: Or somebody comes at them with a hurl.
Leno: Do they have a natural tendency to do it?
Liam: Not really.
Leno: Now, see, my dad was a fighter, but I was never a good fighter.
Liam: But he trained you, right?
Leno: Yeah, but not real good. I would like buy my way out of a fight.
Liam: Well, I’ve got the pads.
Leno: You got the pads, so the kids are okay. Do they fight each other? Well, one is 11 and one is 8?
Liam: 9 and an 8. They’re 14 months apart.
Leno: Now, something I heard about you that you are obsessed with shoes is ... is all tabloid stuff. When you were off in Shanghai watching cricket fighting, this is what I read in the papers that you have lots of shoes.
Liam: Look, I’m not Imelda Marcos, that’s for sure! I have maybe 14 pair of shoes, but they’re very important to me.
Leno: Well, I tell you what, we’ll find out why … why the shoes are so important right after this. You don’t want to miss this, ladies and gentlemen. This is unbelievable.
(Break)
Leno: Welcome back. Talking with Liam Neeson, "Kinsey" is the movie. I was giving you a hard time about your shoes, you see, I thought you were going to say you had hundreds of pairs, Liam.
Liam: No, just 14, yeah, but they’re very special.
Leno: Very special? Are they all left foot or what?
Liam: Well, they’ve just been with me a long time ... you know he says looking at these. These are kinda new.
Leno: Are you one of those guys that go to Italy, you get the hand-made …
Liam: Oh! Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leno: But they do make a difference.
Liam: They do because over time they mold to your feet, you know.
Leno: You know ‘cause I used … to go around and just buy cheap shoes and do stand up. And you are on feet for an hour and my feet would kill me. This guy says, “Oh, you gotta go to this Italian guy, he’ll make you a pair of shoes.” And I go, “I’m not a …” “Oh, no, this guy will make you …” And like I’ve had them for 15 years, so I know what you mean. So, that’s pretty good same pair.
Liam: Same pair? Cheap bastard!
Leno: Yeah, I am a cheap bastard. Now do you ever pick up the wrong pair? “Oh, these are wrong, I have to go back!”
Liam: I do, yeah, yeah. Sometimes, yeah, I’m about to leave the door, “Nah, it’s Tuesday, they don’t feel right!”
Leno: You got to the door and then some signal that these shoes are wrong …
Liam: Yes, that’s kinda of it.
Leno: … and later you found a safe had fallen right where you were going to go out. Hey, let me ask you about Kinsey.
Liam: Thanks.
Leno: It’s a story of Dr. Kinsey, the big sex researcher.
Liam: Right.
Leno: The thing that amazed me about this film was it takes place … in the, uh …
Liam: … in the 30’s and 40’s.
Leno: Yeah, early 40’s, early 50’s primarily … but how naive people were about … and even married couples that come to you in the film don’t have a clue.
Liam: Yes, there were surveys done in the 30’s, and it was not uncommon for ladies not to know how a kid was born. And I think I’ve got it right … about 92% of school boys did not know that they were necessary to have a baby as well. I mean, it’s just stunning facts of ignorance.
Leno: Really?
Liam: Absolutely!
Leno: I didn’t know they were that dumb.
Liam: I think it was about 92%.
Leno: How could they be … ? Well, when you think about it, you know, I was probably in my teens before I saw like anything pornographic because you didn’t have cable, you didn’t have this. You know someone would have a magazine buried in a log down by the steam, and you’d ride your bike 2 miles and they go, “Hey, look at this magazine!” And it would be all wet and you couldn’t figure out what it was. And that was sort of the extent of your sexual knowledge. Now, it’s on the internet, “Hey, look at here!” Did your parents tell you …
Liam: I was about 17, 18 before I saw that magazine.
Leno: The same one? It has been passed around quite a bit … it’s been passed around quite a bit. Now, did your parents tell you? Did they sit you down and go …
Liam: No! I was … I was … I’m Irish Catholic obviously from a very small …
Leno: Oh, so you still don’t know (clapping from audience interrupts), they still haven’t told you. I think 55 is when they sit the Catholic boys down and go …
Liam: We’d better talk to our Liam, you know. He’s in America now, we’d better tell him something.
Leno: Did your dad even discuss …
Liam: No, no, never, never! And there’s a story about my father when he was married to my mum. My mum was married at 19. Very early on in their marriage … he was a very quiet man, man of very, very few words … and my mother just started a conversation, they were having dinner one night and she said, “Och, Barney”… his name was Barney … “Barney, guess who’s pregnant?” And my father put down the knife and fork and he said, “What sort of language is that to use at the dinner table?” So, was I taught the facts of life? No!
Leno: You know, I remember being in college and my mother would still spell things. She said to my father the words to the song, “D.i.v.o.r.c.e.” I go, “Mom, I’m in college, I can spell, you know, divorce is not a dirty word.” My mother would get all … because of my father. I distinctly remember it I was like14, my father … my mother was out of the house. It was on of those things where my mother slams, runs out, car takes off. “Where my mom go?” My father called me in, he goes, “Son, birds and the bees, you know about that?” I said, “Well, I know a little bit about it.” “Good, hey, how do the Red Sox look? We’re going to do it?” That was that, that was my complete education.
Liam: I can believe that!
Leno: Now, tell us about this clip we’re going to see. Do we need to know anymore about him? He obviously ...
Liam: He was a starred scientist. He studied bugs for twenty years and then he segued into studying human male and female sexuality. And there were just these two …
Leno: And he was a dull guy by nature …
Liam: Yeah, he was quite a dull guy.
Leno: Who would be the equivalent? Would it be Doctor Ruth today?
Liam: Oh, she’s very zappy and a huge personality.
Leno: But he wasn’t a personality …
Liam: Plus the fact that she’s half the height.
Leno: She’s zappy … I never heard that word.
Liam: She’s cute, yeah, I really like her.
Leno: She is cute. Oh, right, here’s the scene.
Liam: Yeah, it’s self-explanatory.
Leno: And these are what? Seniors in college?
Liam: Yeah, 17, 18 years olds.
Leno: Okay, let’s take a look.
(Clip)
Leno: Terrific job! Great performance! Teriific! You’ve always give great performance. Wonderful job. Thank you very much. Kinsey, playing in theaters now. Will be right back with Kate Bosworth right after this.
Jay Leno: Welcome back, everybody! We have a terrific show tonight: uh … one of my favorite actors, Liam Neeson, is on his way out; and from the new movie Beyond the sea, the Bobby Darrin Story, we got … Kate Bosworth is here; and music from Damien Rice. He does that great song In the Closer …
Eubank: Uh, cool. (voice only)
Leno: And on Monday, Kevin Spacey, Clay Aiken, and next week, Oceans 12. We got Clooney, we got Matt Damon, we got Catherine Zeta-Jones … that’s Oceans 12, everybody. Here we go. My first guest, Oscar nominated actor, his films include of course Schindler’s List and Stars Wars Episode 1, now starring in Kinsey which is in theatres right now. Please welcome Liam Neeson! Good to see you.
Liam: Good to see you too, Jay.
Leno: Now, where are you back from? Some place exotic? Was it China? Shanghai?
Liam: I just got back from Shanghai in China, yeah!
Leno: Okay, well, that’s very cool.
Liam: Interesting, interesting place.
Leno: Now, what brought you to Shanghai?
Liam: Well, my wife’s making a merchant ivory film there at the minute …
Leno: Okay.
Liam: … with our friend Ralph Fiennes. Her mom, Vanessa Redgrave, is in it, her aunt, Lynn Redgrave, is in it, so, big family affair.
Leno: Big family reunion?
Liam: So I went over with our two boys, and, uh ... have you ever been there, Jay?
Leno: I haven’t been to Shanghai. I’ve been to China … I’ve been to Chinatown here, but I’m told it’s quite different.
Liam: Well, I have to tell you the Chinese takeaway is very very good.
Leno: Really, really! You get good Chinese food from everywhere these days.
Liam: Really, really good, but the interesting thing I brought my two kids out to … uh … just life in the street there is fantastic! And everybody, every shop trader, they all barter! So you kinda go up and you see some piece of junk that you wouldn’t buy anywhere, you know, and say, "how much?" And they give you a calculator and then they put like a hundred which is 8 dollars in our currency, you know. And you go, "Pooh, you must be joking!" And you put in twenty, and they go, "Ha, ha, ha, very funny!" But my kids get so into this, and you end up buying these things for fifty cents each.
Leno: Did you buy any?
Liam: I came back with these Chairman Mau watches. On the face of the watch, there is Chairman Mau doing this here.
Leno: I guess they have a lot of leftover. We’ve got some Eisenhower watches we could sell too. So how many did you buy?
Liam: I think I have about 12.
Leno: You bought them because they were cheap?
Liam: Well, because they are good stocking fillers, you know … with Christmas coming up and stuff. And they’re kinda fun, you know.
Leno: So, how much did you pay the equivalent of each one?
Liam: Uh … I think about … well, actually, 12 watches is about 15 bucks and I still wanted to bargain him down.
Leno: And you give them as gifts?
Liam: Yeah!
Leno You cheap bastard! Oh, you know my uncle, he’s in movies, he’s got an Oscar nomination, he gave me this 50 cent watch ….
Liam: Everybody is …
Leno: That’s lovely, lovely gift …
Liam: No, it’s true, oh dear, dear, that’s awful.
Leno: Now, I heard something … cricket fighting. Do you know what that is?
Liam: We went to this little pet market, right? And, uh, they have these fighting crickets. So, they put two crickets into like a kinda of a gold fish bowl and they touch them with a little stick. And these crickets have like little fangs.
Leno: Yeah.
Liam: And they start doing this and start attacking each other. So they lay bets on them, you know. And, uh, I know its sounds crazy, doesn’t it? But they really look vicious, you know.
Leno: So, let me see … you have your family, you take your family to probably the oldest culture … there’s Chinese art … where do you take them? To see a fifty cent watch and a cricket fight!!!
Liam: And a couple of good meals. And we did do all the tourist attractions.
Leno: I know. And how many people gather? Is it legal, cricket fighting?
Liam: Well, you know, I wanted to think that it wasn’t, but then I thought, “Come on, crickets?” But they were guys laying bets and they all circled round and money was thrown down. And they start the contest and they touch these guys, and they go at each other.
Leno: Well, how do you know when the fight is over? Is it a fight to the death?
Liam: Well, here’s what happens to them …
Leno: And that’s it?
Liam: Literally they turn over and they are dead. And the winner is whipped out and put in a box. I bought these little boxes too. Very expensive.
Leno: Do you barter those down, too?
Liam: Yeah, I did, but they keep these crickets in them.
Leno: Now, your sons … were they … they must have been amazed at this.
Liam: They did, yeah, they did!
Leno: Are they sports fans, your kids? Do they like sports?
Liam: They do. They like hockey.
Leno: Hockey? Non-traditional, not cricket fighting.
Liam: Not cricket and hurling which is Irelands national sport.
Leno: Hurling, isn’t that a drinking game in Ireland? You hurl?
Liam: It’s played with a curly stick.
Leno: What is hurling? You throw something? How does that work?
Liam: It’s like two teams of fifteen men, you have goal posts like rugby or American football, and it’s actually the fastest field game in the world.
Leno: You kick it? You throw it?
Liam: No, it’s played with these sticks.
Leno: Oh, you just chase each other with sticks. They’re not into baseball or …
Liam: No, they’re not, thanks be to God, nor am I, either.
Leno: Just the Irish games. You were once a fighter … this always amazed me. My dad was a boxer.
Liam: Right.
Leno: And you were a Boxer?
Liam: Right.
Leno: Do your kids fight? Do you teach them how?
Liam: I’m beginning to, yeah!
Leno: You want them to fight?
Liam: No, no, I don’t really, but I want them to throw a good left jab. And maybe a good right cross.
Leno: In case a cricket jumps them on the street.
Liam: Or somebody comes at them with a hurl.
Leno: Do they have a natural tendency to do it?
Liam: Not really.
Leno: Now, see, my dad was a fighter, but I was never a good fighter.
Liam: But he trained you, right?
Leno: Yeah, but not real good. I would like buy my way out of a fight.
Liam: Well, I’ve got the pads.
Leno: You got the pads, so the kids are okay. Do they fight each other? Well, one is 11 and one is 8?
Liam: 9 and an 8. They’re 14 months apart.
Leno: Now, something I heard about you that you are obsessed with shoes is ... is all tabloid stuff. When you were off in Shanghai watching cricket fighting, this is what I read in the papers that you have lots of shoes.
Liam: Look, I’m not Imelda Marcos, that’s for sure! I have maybe 14 pair of shoes, but they’re very important to me.
Leno: Well, I tell you what, we’ll find out why … why the shoes are so important right after this. You don’t want to miss this, ladies and gentlemen. This is unbelievable.
(Break)
Leno: Welcome back. Talking with Liam Neeson, "Kinsey" is the movie. I was giving you a hard time about your shoes, you see, I thought you were going to say you had hundreds of pairs, Liam.
Liam: No, just 14, yeah, but they’re very special.
Leno: Very special? Are they all left foot or what?
Liam: Well, they’ve just been with me a long time ... you know he says looking at these. These are kinda new.
Leno: Are you one of those guys that go to Italy, you get the hand-made …
Liam: Oh! Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leno: But they do make a difference.
Liam: They do because over time they mold to your feet, you know.
Leno: You know ‘cause I used … to go around and just buy cheap shoes and do stand up. And you are on feet for an hour and my feet would kill me. This guy says, “Oh, you gotta go to this Italian guy, he’ll make you a pair of shoes.” And I go, “I’m not a …” “Oh, no, this guy will make you …” And like I’ve had them for 15 years, so I know what you mean. So, that’s pretty good same pair.
Liam: Same pair? Cheap bastard!
Leno: Yeah, I am a cheap bastard. Now do you ever pick up the wrong pair? “Oh, these are wrong, I have to go back!”
Liam: I do, yeah, yeah. Sometimes, yeah, I’m about to leave the door, “Nah, it’s Tuesday, they don’t feel right!”
Leno: You got to the door and then some signal that these shoes are wrong …
Liam: Yes, that’s kinda of it.
Leno: … and later you found a safe had fallen right where you were going to go out. Hey, let me ask you about Kinsey.
Liam: Thanks.
Leno: It’s a story of Dr. Kinsey, the big sex researcher.
Liam: Right.
Leno: The thing that amazed me about this film was it takes place … in the, uh …
Liam: … in the 30’s and 40’s.
Leno: Yeah, early 40’s, early 50’s primarily … but how naive people were about … and even married couples that come to you in the film don’t have a clue.
Liam: Yes, there were surveys done in the 30’s, and it was not uncommon for ladies not to know how a kid was born. And I think I’ve got it right … about 92% of school boys did not know that they were necessary to have a baby as well. I mean, it’s just stunning facts of ignorance.
Leno: Really?
Liam: Absolutely!
Leno: I didn’t know they were that dumb.
Liam: I think it was about 92%.
Leno: How could they be … ? Well, when you think about it, you know, I was probably in my teens before I saw like anything pornographic because you didn’t have cable, you didn’t have this. You know someone would have a magazine buried in a log down by the steam, and you’d ride your bike 2 miles and they go, “Hey, look at this magazine!” And it would be all wet and you couldn’t figure out what it was. And that was sort of the extent of your sexual knowledge. Now, it’s on the internet, “Hey, look at here!” Did your parents tell you …
Liam: I was about 17, 18 before I saw that magazine.
Leno: The same one? It has been passed around quite a bit … it’s been passed around quite a bit. Now, did your parents tell you? Did they sit you down and go …
Liam: No! I was … I was … I’m Irish Catholic obviously from a very small …
Leno: Oh, so you still don’t know (clapping from audience interrupts), they still haven’t told you. I think 55 is when they sit the Catholic boys down and go …
Liam: We’d better talk to our Liam, you know. He’s in America now, we’d better tell him something.
Leno: Did your dad even discuss …
Liam: No, no, never, never! And there’s a story about my father when he was married to my mum. My mum was married at 19. Very early on in their marriage … he was a very quiet man, man of very, very few words … and my mother just started a conversation, they were having dinner one night and she said, “Och, Barney”… his name was Barney … “Barney, guess who’s pregnant?” And my father put down the knife and fork and he said, “What sort of language is that to use at the dinner table?” So, was I taught the facts of life? No!
Leno: You know, I remember being in college and my mother would still spell things. She said to my father the words to the song, “D.i.v.o.r.c.e.” I go, “Mom, I’m in college, I can spell, you know, divorce is not a dirty word.” My mother would get all … because of my father. I distinctly remember it I was like14, my father … my mother was out of the house. It was on of those things where my mother slams, runs out, car takes off. “Where my mom go?” My father called me in, he goes, “Son, birds and the bees, you know about that?” I said, “Well, I know a little bit about it.” “Good, hey, how do the Red Sox look? We’re going to do it?” That was that, that was my complete education.
Liam: I can believe that!
Leno: Now, tell us about this clip we’re going to see. Do we need to know anymore about him? He obviously ...
Liam: He was a starred scientist. He studied bugs for twenty years and then he segued into studying human male and female sexuality. And there were just these two …
Leno: And he was a dull guy by nature …
Liam: Yeah, he was quite a dull guy.
Leno: Who would be the equivalent? Would it be Doctor Ruth today?
Liam: Oh, she’s very zappy and a huge personality.
Leno: But he wasn’t a personality …
Liam: Plus the fact that she’s half the height.
Leno: She’s zappy … I never heard that word.
Liam: She’s cute, yeah, I really like her.
Leno: She is cute. Oh, right, here’s the scene.
Liam: Yeah, it’s self-explanatory.
Leno: And these are what? Seniors in college?
Liam: Yeah, 17, 18 years olds.
Leno: Okay, let’s take a look.
(Clip)
Leno: Terrific job! Great performance! Teriific! You’ve always give great performance. Wonderful job. Thank you very much. Kinsey, playing in theaters now. Will be right back with Kate Bosworth right after this.
Posted: Sa - Dezember 4, 2004 at 03:41 nachm.