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Saturday July 24, 2010

LIEV Schreiber took up scuba-diving because he used to have “vivid flying dreams” when he first became an actor.

Liev — who stars alongside Angelina Jolie in new action movie Salt – has just returned from a scuba-diving trip to Tahiti, where he swam among dolphins, moray eels, and sharks — without a cage.

“I had vivid flying dreams,” the actor told New York Magazine. “And when I first started making a living as an actor, I would try to pursue these things that I thought would be like flying.

“I tried skydiving and that was great, but that wasn’t it. And I found this, and this was really it. A lot of what I do in my flying dreams is just float above houses, kind of hover very slowly. Very much like scuba-diving.”

Schreiber — who raises sons Sasha and Kai with partner Naomi Watts — was also motivated by his dreams to tattoo his boys’ names on the inside of his forearms.

“I’m not really a tattoo person at all,” he said, “but I had this [dream] that one day I would go to pick them up at college, and I would be there in whatever outfit that a sixtysomething man would go to pick up their kids at college with, and we’d get a flat tire, and I would get out and I would change the tire, and as I was changing the tire, the sleeve would come up over my wrinkled skin and they would see their names tattooed on my arms and that would be a big deal to them.

“I don’t think they’d forget, but time would pass, and it would just be a wonderful reminder of how much I love them.”

Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts

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