Dec 10 - Scarlett Johansson stars alongside Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber in Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge". Sharon Reich reports. In her Broadway debut, Scarlett Johansson will star alongside Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber, in Arthur Miller's "A View From The Bridge."
SOUNDBITE: Liev Schreiber, Actor, saying (English)
"The suppressed sexuality in this play is pretty stunning."
Schreiber plays Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, who becomes jealous and obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine, played by Johansson. The actor says playing a character like Eddie, was a big shift and a challenging one.
SOUNDBITE: Liev Schreiber, Actor, saying (English)
"I've never been really much of a method person, I don't need people to call me by my character's name but I find that the lines blur easily on this character. It's so intense that you find the, I find Eddie's energy leaking out into rehearsal. It's that deep sense of paranoia and suppression and all those things that watch