Liv Tyler Glows About Dad; Talks Religion, 'Hobbit' and That Overbite

By Nicki Gostin Posted Jun 24th 2011 09:18PM

Oh, to be Liv Tyler. She's gorgeous, has a career as eclectic as you can get in showbiz and her dad has somehow gotten famous-er at an age when most men his age are pumping the breaks. The 33-year-old single mom (she and Royston Langdon split in 2008) stole hearts early in her career, beginning with 'Empire Records,' and has sprinkled monster blockbusters ('Lord of the Rings') with smaller fare ('Cookie's Fortune') ever since. She's been on a break since 2008's 'The Incredible Hulk' but is back in 'The Ledge,' a new thriller involving a tricky love triangle and deep theological questions. The soft-spoken star tried her best to outline the complicated film in a chat with PopEater (she passed with flying colors) and whether a born-again Christian character will rub religious folks the wrong way (she doesn't think so). We touched on 'The Hobbit,' her adorable overbite, and the career boost her dad, Steven Tyler, is enjoying due to 'American Idol.'

"Friends, friends' mothers, kids, all different people come up to me pretty much everyday to say, 'Oh we love your Dad. He's so special and beautiful,'" she tells PopEater. "There's a real feeling of love which I think is incredible and quite powerful. I really just feel very proud of him."

Are you going to be in 'The Hobbit?'
I'm definitely not in 'The Hobbit' and I actually don't know anything about it. I realized I need to call my friends in New Zealand to ask them what's going on so I have some facts when I get asked questions about it.

Do you desperately wish you were in it?
Kind of secretly, maybe desperate is the wrong word to use. I would love to go back there and bring my son to New Zealand and see all those amazing people. It was such a magical experience.

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'The Ledge' is sort of a difficult movie to describe.
It is, I just had to go on 'The View' and they were asking me to describe it and I was struggling with it and then I had no idea what I said because I black out when I go on those shows. I play a woman who had problems with drugs and prostitution and she meets Patrick Wilson's character and they get married. He is a born-again evangelical Christian. He basically saves her life and then she meets a man played by Charlie Hunnam and they have an affair and he's an atheist. It's a thriller.

Did the movie make you examine your religious beliefs?
I feel quite strongly in my own personal ... I wouldn't say religion because I'm not a religious person but I consider myself a spiritual person. I definitely have some kind of belief in something bigger than myself. I almost feel like it's the universe and the earth and mother nature and that feeling when you go to the beach or stand on top of a mountain and look around and go, 'God this is not about me.' I feel quite clear about that in my own heart. I'm definitely curious and enjoy talking to different people about their beliefs. I grew up around so many different types of people, political, religious, in my lifetime so I'm quite used to overhearing those conversations.

Some people say the movie is critical of born-agains.
I don't think that's what it's about at all. The message I got from making this film, that the world especially now with the Internet, we're so quick to judge people based on their clothing, sexual preference, religion, food they like. I guess I came to realize from this is that you really don't know what people have been through unless you find out.

Can we please talk about your Dad? He's like a phoenix.
Oh, that's such a sweet way to put it. It's pretty amazing that in this time in his life he's doing something so new and different.

And America fell in love with him all over again!
It really feels like that. Friends, friends' mothers, kids, all different people come up to me pretty much everyday to say, 'Oh we love your Dad. He's so special and beautiful.' There's a real feeling of love which I think is incredible and quite powerful. I really just feel very proud of him.

Ever borrow his clothes?
I definitely do and he borrows mine! He steals my clothes sometimes. My favorite thing that I took from him is not a leopard thong! It's a winter jacket that I love with a fluffy hood.

You have an adorable overbite.
When did you notice that?

Today on 'The View.'
Oh no!

Oh please it's adorable.
Was I like (Tyler makes snorting noise like a horse)?

Not at all. I can't believe you're feeling insecure. You're gorgeous.
Thanks, that's the funniest thing because I definitely have an overbite. I sucked my thumb so my grandmother took me to get hypnotized when I was seven because I wouldn't take my thumb out of my mouth. I think that's why I have such an overbite. It makes me lisp on occasion. I did have braces.

Do you still model?
I do quite a bit because I have a contract with Givenchy for perfume and cosmetics. We do a lot of print ads and commercials.

Do you have a big stash of lipsticks?
Definitely. I have a big closet filled with extra stuff. I like to give things away.

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Liv Tyler rocks an incredibly flattering blue dress at a screening of 'The Ledge' in New York City on June 21. More Pics of the Stunning Star >>

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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 21: Actress Liv Tyler attends the after party for the Cinema Society & Grey Goose screening of "The Ledge" at Penthouse (PH-D) at Dream Downtown on June 21, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 21: Actress Liv Tyler attends the Cinema Society & Grey Goose screening of "The Ledge" at Landmark Sunshine Cinema on June 21, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Monday 27 June

By PLindsey

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I believe you're thinking of Mackenzie Phillips.

Saturday 25 June

By wolfmann4u

what is wrong with Tyler does he-she need a sex change operation ?

By Val

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Steven looks awesome and better than ever! Father daughter pic,, so sweet!:)

Sunday 26 June

By JoeD

Can't Understand, why Liv isn't Married
Beautifull Girl and Very nice, but still wonder..

By WFBGlass

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She has the ugliest legs I have ever seen on a woman ! What happened, Liv? I think Aerosmith is great, and have been with them since the early 1970's. But what is with Liv's legs?

By Anthony

I met Liv once and she's such a sweet person. I had no idea she's a single mom and also 33. She looks much younger. I hope I meet her again some day and her dad too because he rocks!

By KJ

Steven Tyler makes me want to take a hot shower! On American Idol, the way he leered and drooled over the girls was disgusting! The way he tried to get in on everything, show off his "singing", etc, was ridiculous!!! I couldn't watch it.

What does he always have in his HAIR????

By David

This is one strange Dude!!!

And since she was always a Steven Tyler groupie, how wonderful it was for her to find out he's her "Daddy".

How quickly she forgets her "DAD", Todd! The man who raised her just as if he really was her biological father, the man who was always there for her, the man who kissed her "owwies" when she was little and frightened away the boogie man. Too bad the morals and values didn't stick.

By Baffled

Maybe. However, as my Mother always said: "Beauty is only skin deep but ugly is to the bone."

By Casey

Almost right Denise-she wasn't on the cover of People (at that time) she was an unknown groupie kid who thought her dad was Ted Nugent til she saw half sis Mia. Daddy lived with a FOURTEEN yr old for a few years in the seventies, knocked her up, got her an abortion and gave her back to her parents. I find him disgusting-oh, and her surgery? Lips!

By Kalee

Fourteen years old, really? how caome he didn't go to jail for statutory rape? That's gross, how old was he??? EEUW!

By Peggy

What about Armageddon? She was a major star next to Bruce Willis, in this movie,but it`s not mentioned. DUH!!
How cool, her Dad, is getting alot of attention lately for his fish-fly hair feathers. But actually, he`s had them in his hair for quite some time! Before IDOL.
Way to start a hair trend,Steven Tyler!
And we`de all like to see a pic. of the guy who said Liv looked "horsey".
He`s never owned a horse before, in his entire life,and never will.

By Will

What a shocking, absolute resemblance in that photo.

By Whataboutthis

Wasn't Liv a teenager before she even knew that Steve Tyler was her Dad? I'm almost sure that she grew up thinking another performer was her Dad. Todd Rungren, I think. She didn't grow up with Steven Tyler as her Dad at all. Overbite? She has buck teeth, not so cute. It's really a miracle that she was able to have any kind of a relationship with Tyler at all, considering men in Hollywood have a hard time steping up and taking responsibility. It must have been pretty shocking for the kids he has now to deal with at first. She should write a book.

By eric

yeah bill you double suck, she's awesome

By Bob

It's still hard to believe Liv is this freaky looking dude's daughter. I mean, who could date her and not get an unwanted image of his doofy looking face in their mind? It would be just too bizarre.

By Too tired

Christans who hate and point an angry finger, Is not really a christan but a born again wind bag hiding behind religion! Jesus traches ust to love not hate. But a lot of religous grops thinks God faviors them....HA HA! NOT SO!

By DeYawn

An eclectic career?...ecletically bad...another overpaid celebratoid who is photographed endlessly walking around doing absolutely nothing...as for her father....too much plastic surgery, and he is now on american idol...enough said.

By Sebastien

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I hate this dude. This guy has got the biggest mouth in the world. His music s-u-c-k-s. It all sounds the same. I'm glad I don't have to heard is bloody music on the radio. Ps. His daughter is ugly too. Only retard people think his daughter is hot.

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