Living the Dream: Liv Tyler is The Rake's Issue 98 Cover Star

Liv Tyler, an ingénue of the nineties and a star of one of the highest-grossing movie series of all time, is embracing a different pace of life. In her first interview for four years, she tells TOM CHAMBERLIN about her new adventure in the Californian countryside.

Living the Dream: Liv Tyler is The Rake's Issue 98 Cover Star

Exposition in a magazine interview is not hugely exciting at the best of times — ‘Actor X walked into the diner wearing his Blue Jays baseball cap and tossed it onto the table as he sat down, as if to say, This is my spot’ kind of thing. In the Zoom era, such an example might, strangely, be classed as riveting — until the person looking back at you on the screen is Liv Tyler. 

Liv arrived while I was having a chit-chat with her publicist, one of those grandee publicists whose indispensability allows them to create lifelong relationships with their clients, and he has been with Tyler since Armageddon, which was released in 1998, when Liv was 21 years old. 

Today, at 47, she r