Liv Tyler has enjoyed an interesting career on the big screen. Despite landing roles in such films as Empire Records, Stealing Beauty, Armageddon, U-Turn, all three Lord of the Rings movies, Jersey Girl, and Reign Over Me, it still seems like her best work is yet to come. No stranger to larger than life movies after the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tyler makes her return to the Hollywood blockbuster in director Louis Leterrier's turn at translating The Incredible Hulk, starring alongside Edward Norton and William Hurt as Betty Ross, Bruce Banner's longtime love.

Leading up to the release of The Incredible Hulk, which storms into theaters on June 13, Liv Tyler recently sat down with journalists to fill the world in on her personal connection to the Hulk, what fans can expect from the comic book hero, how she balances career with motherhood, how she worked with green screen, and why she chose to sign onto the project.

How are you when you get angry?

LIV TYLER: I actually do not get angry very much. It is one of the only emotions that I am not so good at. Actually, if I ever have to get mad in a movie, I get really freaked out. It is much easier for me to cry or be scared. When I have to get angry, I almost black out. Isn’t that weird? I have to get more in touch with my anger. I would tend to feel sadness or empathy more. I need to get angry more!

Did you have a special relationship with the Hulk when you were a child?

TYLER: My mom and I were obsessed with the TV show. We used to watch the TV-show together a lot. When I lived in Maine and was a little girl, I remember loving it. I asked my mom this question and she said I had a doll that had stretchy arms and legs, and I used to play with it all the time. That was the extent of my relationship with The Hulk. Now I am lovers with the Hulk. That is amazing.

How do you balance your career with motherhood?

TYLER: It is a constant balance. I am very lucky with my job. Like, with The Hulk, I worked for four months straight every day, and then I was finished, and then I did not do anything for two months and spent every day with Milo and went on a vacation without a nanny. And in that sense, I am trying to balance as much as I can.

Why do you think the Hulk is so popular?

TYLER: I don't know for other people, but I have always felt great empathy for him because he was just this normal guy, and then an experiment went wrong and he was looking for a way to cure himself. And all those shots of Bill Bixby walking down the road with his bag back on his bag - he is always trying to start a new life and make friends. He is a really good person and a helpful person. Then this thing comes over him and he has no control over it. Even in the moments he is being the Hulk he is being a hero. Often it is not seen in that way, like he is always the monster. But he is always trying to save the horse from the burning barn. But then he has to leave because he is a misunderstood hero and then there is this thing grabbling inside him.

How did you feel being the only girl on set?

TYLER: I always hear from other people that it was such a Testosterone environment. I never felt that way. I feel so comfortable around men. I never feel like we are that different, men and women. I don’t feel, ‘Oh, God, there are too many boys around here for me.’ I guess I have always been a tomboy growing up and I love men and boys, and some of my best friends are men. I never really saw it that way.

How is the Hulk made?

TYLER: The actual Hulk is a CGI character.

So what are you playing with?

TYLER: Different things at different times. Sometimes a man, sometimes a stick - it is different every time. The special-effects masters came to me early in the shoot and the director said, 'How did you do this on Lord of the Rings because I have never done this before?' And I said, 'Well, there was a process.' It boils down to what is best for the actor. What feels most comfortable to you, does not necessarily look like the best thing. You might feel more comfortable with a real person there but when the camera is on, you might look more powerful if you are looking at a piece of paper, for some weird reason, in the way it translates to film. So it is a process and you just have to try it in a lot of different ways. There was a man with a backpack, and I asked him to make a head of the Hulk. And I thought they would make a styrofoam head, and they actually made a real head that was heavy and green and the real face of the Hulk. And this poor man, Terry, had to drag it. It is at the top of a cross that is 8 feet tall. It is awkward. A lot of times I would look at that. If I had to touch him, I had to touch nothing, or there was a scene [that] I had to lean against him and I leaned against nothing and felt so silly. A lot of it is imagination. It is fun but I got really nervous one of the first days and I said, 'I need to go to the bathroom,' and I just went by myself. I lied. I just wanted an excuse to collect my thoughts and I just closed my eyes and prayed I could be brave and free enough and I thought, ‘Just think like a child thinks.’ A child is not thinking about what everyone thinks. They are in their imagination all the time, they are pretending and they are free, and I just tried to relate to that as much as I could.

Are you often intimidated?

TYLER: I don’t know if I am intimidated, but I am always terrified. But that is my job. I am looking at words at a paper and it is my job to convey them and bring them to real life. Sometimes you do a good job with it and sometimes you don’t. The process of acting is that you are disposing your truth all the time and then you have to allow people to critique it and say, 'Well, okay, I think you can do better,' or 'That is amazing, let’s move on,' or 'Let’s try this, follow your own guts.' Some say, 'Let’s move on,' and you say that you don't feel that you got that yet. It is a strange process.

Did you watch Sex in the City?

TYLER: I have the most embarrassing story in the world. I went to this Met[ropolitan] ball the other night, the costume ball, and afterwards we went to this party and it was really crowded and I was squeezing in between all these people, then suddenly this large man appeared behind me and he was literally pressed up against me. And I was like, ‘Hello!’ And I turned around and it was the guy from Sex in the City and I could not remember his name or anything. And I went, ‘Are you Mr. Big?’ And he said, 'If you want me to be.' [laughs] That is all that happened. But I almost said, 'Are you Mr. Pink?' because I saw the show maybe once or twice.

What made you decide to do this?

TYLER: There is always the trepidation about my job, and I had always wanted to work with Edward Norton, and I have an enormous amount of respect for him. I had just worked on two very small films. I had just said to my agent, 'I wish and hope that I could find another thing with a lot of integrity that I love that was like the LOTR in a way. And [that] you know it is going to come out.' I just did a movie with Diane Keaton and I don't even think that it is coming out. But then I did another movie called The Strangers and it took a year and a half... You never know. Literally, I got the phone call right after that. You’d better be careful what you wish for. I feel really excited. You are taken care of in a whole different way and it is nice to be able to relax. You know that you are going to get the best of the best in terms of cameramen and cinematography and the effects. And the actors, look at the amazing group of actors. It is tricky as an actor. We had a hard time. William Hurt was very close and I suffered a lot. It is hard to do entire scenes with nothing. Often what they show you to look at is quite comical. There is a scene in the movie where the Hulk kicks Tim Roth in his chest and he goes flying and he breaks every bone in his body. It is like one little thing and 30 minutes worth of action, and in order for us to have an eye-line to look at, there were two men pretending to fight. And then to show the Hulk kicking Tim Roth, they kicked a soccer ball across the field. It is funny, and I am supposed to be screaming, 'Don’t, don’t, you are killing him!' with tears in my eyes. And William is supposed to feel like his whole world is falling apart. One super-soldier is being destroyed. It is hard. It's fun hard but it is not a piece of cake.