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"   Photo: Image Entertainment  Why does a man choose to avoid temptation and stay faithful to his wife? That&amp;#039;s the question asked in Every Day, the new film starring Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt. Schreiber said, &amp;quot;I think the greatest bond of a couple is the time and trust that you earn and the level of intimacy that grows over time. That sense of being known by someone is what you&amp;#039;re really after in a relationship; to know somebody and to be known. I think in Ned&amp;#039;s case he ultimately decides that his home is where he is known and who he wants to know.&amp;quot; In Every Day, which opened Friday, Schreiber plays Ned, a Brooklyn-based TV writer struggling to reconcile the needs of his wife Jeannie (Helen Hunt), who becomes the caregiver of her irascible, dying father (Brian Dennehy), his growing sons\u2014one of whom is grappling with his sexual identity\u2014and his demanding boss. All three give masterful, intelligent performances. &amp;quot;Not quite the party you were hoping for?&amp;quot; Jeannie asks her unraveling husband. Not exactly \u2014 but he finds the party elsewhere. His sexy co-worker (Carla Gugino) offers an escape from real life problems. &amp;quot;His indulgence, if you can call it that, which he has with Carla&amp;#039;s character is less about her character than it is about himself,&amp;quot; said Schreiber. &amp;quot;He wants to be selfish and feels he deserves more.&amp;quot; Schreiber, who earned a master&amp;#039;s degree from Yale School of Drama, is a renowned Shakespearean actor and on film often portrays larger-than-life characters like Orson Welles (RKO 281), for which he earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, to Sabretooth (X-Men Origins: Wolverine). He describes Every Day as &amp;quot;making the mundane heroic.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Every character seems to have that heroic journey,&amp;quot; said Schreiber. &amp;quot;Ezra&amp;#039;s character coming out with his sexuality at age 16; the younger boy is developing a sense of confidence, dealing with his fears and anxieties; Helen&amp;#039;s character dealing with her father&amp;#039;s death and Brian&amp;#039;s character confronting the end of his own life and trying to rise to occasion of being a father to his daughter in his dying days; those are all things that we will have to deal with. Most of us will never have to fight an army of aliens or mutants with 10-inch claws but we will have to confront these issues. And we deserve credit for confronting them.&amp;quot;   Photo: Image Entertainment  The film was written and directed by Richard Levine, the executive producer of the FX series Nip/Tuck which is in turn the loose inspiration Mercy Medical, Ned&amp;#039;s show. In another small act of every day heroism, Ned stands up to his boss, who relentlessly prods him to push the envelope with edgier sex scenes in his scripts (&amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s disgusting!&amp;quot; his boss (Eddie Izzard) gloats in a writers&amp;#039; meeting. &amp;quot;Use it for sweeps!&amp;quot;) &amp;quot;I think that&amp;#039;s what Richard did so well, was juxtapose the idea of sexuality and violence, which we&amp;#039;re kind of fed in the media, with the relative seeming-banality of every day life, and actually the heroism of every day life. That&amp;#039;s what really drew me to the script.&amp;quot; We asked Schreiber how he drew on his own relationship of five years with actress Naomi Watts, in approaching his character. &amp;quot;I think this is something that is familiar to probably any serious couple, which is that sense of distant intimacy. By that I mean, when you spend every waking moment together and yet you&amp;#039;re not really connecting because the whirlwind of your lives and your children and career have somehow put distance between you that isn&amp;#039;t obvious; it&amp;#039;s a distance in intimacy. And when you get the opportunity to rediscover each other, it&amp;#039;s really amazing, and that usually comes with some kind of crisis. That was something that felt very familiar to me.&amp;quot; Did he ever experience that type of crisis himself? &amp;quot;Yeah, I think both our children being born. You forget how close knit you are with somebody until something like that happens.&amp;quot; The couple, who acted together in The Painted Veil in 2006, reside in New York (where Schreiber grew up) with their two sons, ages two and three. Another reason Schreiber mentioned he was interested in this role was to have the chance to explore &amp;quot;contemporary notions of masculinity &amp;amp;amp;dmash; those things are always interesting; what is a man&amp;#039;s role?&amp;quot; He also hoped for &amp;quot;some sort of a head start or hints on raising an adolescent boy.&amp;quot; Schreiber just spent the past few months &amp;quot;watching the kids while Naomi shot a movie about the tsunami in Thailand,&amp;quot; so we bet he&amp;#039;s already got that head start. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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