Is Liev Schreiber pissed at Scarlett?

In response, Schreiber joked to MTV, "I'm kind of pissed off to be honest..First of all what really happened is sometimes in the course of doing an Arthur Miller play full speed every night your mouth tends to lubricate itself. I can assure you it was nothing more than spittle. Apparently she said I hocked like an asteroid-sized loogie onto her forehead which is just not true. "If I went around on national television advertising the things she does on stage and in the privacy of her dressing room she wouldn't be so happy about it," he told MTV. "So I think she ought to think twice before she lays into me."

Does that really sound like he's joking? I can't tell.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Schreiber_Responds_to_BRIDGEs_LoogieGate_20100223

I'm sure he's joking.

He is as pissed at her as Dame Edna is pissed at Michael Feinstein.

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Naomi Watts has talked about how much Liev and Scarlett have enjoyed working together and how much they (Naomi and Liev) like her. Also, Liev is too professional to actually make this kind of statement and mean it. He's definitely being tongue-in-cheek.

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He is not pissed. If I know correctly, everything that is said on Letterman is rehearsed. So it's all publicity!

Liev Schreiber is extremely dry. I'm sure he's joking.

Oh, please. Spit happens: on stage and off. It was probably the closest thing to a story she could think of for Letterman.

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Liev Schreiber is "too professional"? Tell that to the guy who has a concussion but no longer has a job b/c ol Liev decided to change the fight choreography without telling him. Tell that to the guy who's teeth he knocked out and who had to be carried off stage the night I saw his "Hamlet" when he shoved a flute down his throat on the line "do you think I am easier played upon than a pipe". Liev Schrieber may be talented and everyone at the Times and on this site may want want to jump his bones, but "professional" he is not, which in my humble opinion counts just as much as talent.