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Liam on Good Morning America: Clip, Caps and Transcript!
Liam was interviewd on Good Morning America on Nov
2, 2004.
Thanks to Kathy for the Clip (please rightclick and save) and Caps, and Sally for the Transcript!! See them below.
Thanks to Kathy for the Clip (please rightclick and save) and Caps, and Sally for the Transcript!! See them below.
Transcript:
(I= Interviewer Charlie Gibson)
I: Well, among the most impassioned performances in Liam Neeson’s career are his portrayals of real life legends: his Academy Award nominated turn as humanitarian Oskar Schindler, and then he played Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins, and now he's bringing to life a man who sparked the social revolution in this country in the 1940's and 50’s, the controversial sex research pioneer Alfred Kinsey. The film is called kinsey and it opens next Friday. And Liam Neeson is joining us now. It's a pleasure to have you here!
Liam: Thanks, Charlie!
I: I actually asked somebody when I knew you were going to be on, “When was the last time he was here?” And it was actually for the movie The Good Mother which was a breakthrough movie for you. 1988.
Liam: Oh lord, you’re giving my age away now!
I: And I talked to you! As a matter of fact, I want to show you a little bit of the interview. Take a look!
(Interview from 1988)
Younger I: “There is a new name in Hollywood that you may not yet know, but you will! Liam Neeson, is it that easy? You just come into Hollywood, you say, "Hey, I'm ready!" And they shower you with parts.
Younger Liam: I don't know. I guess I was paying people the right amounts of money! I came out, you know, I auditioned for some parts, and I got some parts. And things just started to happen!
I: You've aged, I haven't!
Liam: You look exactly the same!
I: But I said a name that people hadn't heard, and they would and they did. What did that Liam Neeson not know this one does?
Liam: Um … oh, ask me another question this time of the morning, Charlie! Uh, a lot… a lot! It's a strange business, you know, the movie business.
I: Well, you said when you sat down and I asked you, ”How are you doing?” You said, “Very well, I am still working. They are offering me parts.”
Liam: Yeah!
I: And that's the important thing!
Liam: I haven't been found out yet.
I: You haven't been found out yet. Alfred Kinsey, for my generation, a well-known name; but for young people today, though they know a lot about what he learned, they've never heard of him.
Liam: Yeah, he was … he was an extraordinary star scientist: he was a biologist, a zoologist in the 30's Indiana, Bloomington Indiana university. And from spending 20 years studying a parasitic insect called the gall wasp, he somehow (sail away?) into analyzing and researching human sexuality, male and female.
I: And studying one of the most basic drives in human beings. And yet there was really no way to study it, he had to make it up as he went along.
Liam: There were … there were no… certainly there was no previous studies that he was able to pull off the shelf and looked at. It was literally unchartered territory. And considering that, you know, sexuality is so central to us as a species, it defines us as a society and as a culture, and yet there was so little known about it.
I: Well, we have a little clip from the movie when he's talking to a young women about a...well, this is self-explanatory. Take a look ...
(Film Clip)
Kinsey: “Stim-u-lation. Who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge a hundred times? Um … Miss!”
Student: “I'm sure I don't know, and you've no right to ask me such a questioin in a mixed class.”
Kinsey: “I was referring to the pupil of your eye, young lady!” (chuckles from the students )
Kinsey: “And I think, I should tell you, you are in for a terrible disappointment!” (louder chuckles from the students)
I: We know so well the results of this research and what he learned about sex, which is that there is such a wide variety of behavior. And yet his findings (were) still controversial.
Liam: Sex is controversial, Charlie. He has his detractors, you know, saying his sampling techniques were, you know, a bit askew; but he was essentially attacked by moralists that felt this is, you know, sexual behavior, (it) is subjective, and it should be left to the moralists. He said, “No, it has to be studied scientifically! There is absolutely no systematic data available as to what people actually did.” And Kinsey didn't say, "Look, this is how you should be;” he said, "this is the way you are!”
I: You are, Indeed! All right, Liam Neeson, it's a fascinating story, Alfred Kinsey. And I think people, even though they’ve known an awful lot about his research, will learn a lot from this. Good to have you here.
Liam: Thanks.
I: All the best. Come back in 16 years, we'll have learned a lot by then.
Captures:
(I= Interviewer Charlie Gibson)
I: Well, among the most impassioned performances in Liam Neeson’s career are his portrayals of real life legends: his Academy Award nominated turn as humanitarian Oskar Schindler, and then he played Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins, and now he's bringing to life a man who sparked the social revolution in this country in the 1940's and 50’s, the controversial sex research pioneer Alfred Kinsey. The film is called kinsey and it opens next Friday. And Liam Neeson is joining us now. It's a pleasure to have you here!
Liam: Thanks, Charlie!
I: I actually asked somebody when I knew you were going to be on, “When was the last time he was here?” And it was actually for the movie The Good Mother which was a breakthrough movie for you. 1988.
Liam: Oh lord, you’re giving my age away now!
I: And I talked to you! As a matter of fact, I want to show you a little bit of the interview. Take a look!
(Interview from 1988)
Younger I: “There is a new name in Hollywood that you may not yet know, but you will! Liam Neeson, is it that easy? You just come into Hollywood, you say, "Hey, I'm ready!" And they shower you with parts.
Younger Liam: I don't know. I guess I was paying people the right amounts of money! I came out, you know, I auditioned for some parts, and I got some parts. And things just started to happen!
I: You've aged, I haven't!
Liam: You look exactly the same!
I: But I said a name that people hadn't heard, and they would and they did. What did that Liam Neeson not know this one does?
Liam: Um … oh, ask me another question this time of the morning, Charlie! Uh, a lot… a lot! It's a strange business, you know, the movie business.
I: Well, you said when you sat down and I asked you, ”How are you doing?” You said, “Very well, I am still working. They are offering me parts.”
Liam: Yeah!
I: And that's the important thing!
Liam: I haven't been found out yet.
I: You haven't been found out yet. Alfred Kinsey, for my generation, a well-known name; but for young people today, though they know a lot about what he learned, they've never heard of him.
Liam: Yeah, he was … he was an extraordinary star scientist: he was a biologist, a zoologist in the 30's Indiana, Bloomington Indiana university. And from spending 20 years studying a parasitic insect called the gall wasp, he somehow (sail away?) into analyzing and researching human sexuality, male and female.
I: And studying one of the most basic drives in human beings. And yet there was really no way to study it, he had to make it up as he went along.
Liam: There were … there were no… certainly there was no previous studies that he was able to pull off the shelf and looked at. It was literally unchartered territory. And considering that, you know, sexuality is so central to us as a species, it defines us as a society and as a culture, and yet there was so little known about it.
I: Well, we have a little clip from the movie when he's talking to a young women about a...well, this is self-explanatory. Take a look ...
(Film Clip)
Kinsey: “Stim-u-lation. Who can tell me which part of the human body can enlarge a hundred times? Um … Miss!”
Student: “I'm sure I don't know, and you've no right to ask me such a questioin in a mixed class.”
Kinsey: “I was referring to the pupil of your eye, young lady!” (chuckles from the students )
Kinsey: “And I think, I should tell you, you are in for a terrible disappointment!” (louder chuckles from the students)
I: We know so well the results of this research and what he learned about sex, which is that there is such a wide variety of behavior. And yet his findings (were) still controversial.
Liam: Sex is controversial, Charlie. He has his detractors, you know, saying his sampling techniques were, you know, a bit askew; but he was essentially attacked by moralists that felt this is, you know, sexual behavior, (it) is subjective, and it should be left to the moralists. He said, “No, it has to be studied scientifically! There is absolutely no systematic data available as to what people actually did.” And Kinsey didn't say, "Look, this is how you should be;” he said, "this is the way you are!”
I: You are, Indeed! All right, Liam Neeson, it's a fascinating story, Alfred Kinsey. And I think people, even though they’ve known an awful lot about his research, will learn a lot from this. Good to have you here.
Liam: Thanks.
I: All the best. Come back in 16 years, we'll have learned a lot by then.
Captures:
Posted: Fr - November 5, 2004 at 12:52 nachm.