Anna Friel News

Anna Friel and Lee Pace recently spoke to Sci-Fi Wire about the upcoming season of Pushing Daisies.

Here are some highlights from the interview:

On the season premiere: "The very first scene of the very first episode is in our beekeeper outfits," Frield said. "She gets her first-ever job at a honey factory, where she's a honey-bee girl."

On a future episode that focuses on nuns: "The nuns are really funny," Pace said. "Mo Collins plays the dead nun in the nunnery episode. She plays this trash-talking nun, and she's funny, funny, funny. In that episode, we're having a good time with the gumshoe-solving-crimes [genre].

Chi [McBride] was doing this real serious, kind of noir, kind of William Shatner [style of] acting. So I did a take where I was kind of making fun of him doing that. That's when he cracked up. I don't know if they'll use it in the episode, but I hope they do."

On episode four and frescorts: "Frescorts are friends for hire, which actually exists," Pace said. "David Arquette is our guest star in that episode. He's someone in need of a frescort. He knew the dead frescort, and he and Ned become really friendly because we're both misfits."

Remember: Pushing Daisies returns on October 1. We can't wait!

Pushing Daisies actress Anna Friel will star alongside Will Ferrell in next summer's family movie, Land of the Lost.

Here's an early look at Friel in the film:

According to British newspaper The Mirror, Anna Friel has signed a new six-year contract to remain on Pushing Daisies.

Now, if we can just get that silly writers' strike to end, we can actually watch Friel on our favorite show!

Friel has also signed on to star in Land of the Lost alongside Will Ferrell.

It's nice to see the Golden Globe Awards recognize Pushing Daisies, along with its two stars, for their work this season.

While we'd love to have seen Chi McBride and Kristin Chenoweth also honored, it's hard to complain about the following nominations:

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"30 Rock"
"Californication"
"Entourage"
"Extras"
"Pushing Daisies"

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Alec Baldwin - "30 Rock"
Steve Carell - "The Office"
David Duchovny -- "Californication"
Ricky Gervais - "The Office"
Lee Pace - "Pushing Daisies"

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Christina Applegate
America Ferrara
Tina Fey
Anna Friel
Mary Louise Parker

Here are highlights from an interview Lee Pace and Anna Friel gave USA Today about their characters on Pushing Daisies:

Q: From your banter, you seem to get along great. Could you engage in this romantic pairing if you didn't?
Pace: I don't know if you could get the specific thing that Chuck and Ned have if you didn't like each other as much as we do.
Friel: I'd be surprised. I've seen really great love stories and then heard through the grapevine that they actually despised each other. I don't think I could do that, if you're working 16-17 hours a day, five days a week. … I see more of Lee than I do my daughter (2-year-old Gracie), my partner (actor David Thewlis) and my family.

Q: What do you think of the central conceit — one touch, life; second touch, death?
Pace: It's sensible for Chuck to move as far away from Ned as possible. They shouldn't be in the same room together. But they can't live without each other.

Q: To avoid contact, pie-maker Ned and Chuck have touched through beekeeper suits, plastic casings, rubber gloves and kitchen wrap. How does it feel to kiss through plastic?
Friel: It's so hot. I highly recommend it. One of the most sexual experiences of my life (she says, laughing). The same with the plastic sacks in the car. That was thicker. Each time we do it, the plastic is getting thinner and thinner. We started with industrial strength and now it's going to super fine.

To read the full interview, click here.

As Chuck on Pushing Daisies, Anna Friel is adorable.

But viewers don't really see the sexy side of this British actress too often on the show. At least not like they do in the following couple photos:

For fans of Pushing Daisies, the question isn't whether or not Anna Friel is adorable; it's more an issue of how adorable this British actress is in the role of Chuck.

Take a look below, though, and see how closely Friel resembles another star from an ABC series, Lost.

Anna Friel and Evangeline Lily are both beautiful stars from popular ABC shows.

Chuck and Ned can't touch lips, despite a couple efforts with beekeeper suits on and saran wrap protecting themselves.

But the same can't be said of Anna Friel and Lee Pace.

During a recent Pushing Daisies fan event, these two actors laid a nice smooch on one another. Check it out and prepare to swoon...

Lee Pace isn't exactly complaining that Pushing Daisies is receiving such critical praise. But there is one drawback to such acclaim: pressure.

"If I'm feeling good, I'm very grateful for that," the actor recently said in an interview with Zap2it. "Some days, though, it makes me nervous, like, 'Oh, God, I hope we don't mess it up.'"

We doubt they will. Meanwhile, the actor took readers inside the character of Ned a bit.

"From the beginning moments of the pilot, (Ned has) created a place that he understands," Pace said. "He can give people fresh pie and goodness and be a generous person within a small world.

"Then he brings Chuck back to life, and his entire world is blown open. He learns something new, I think, in every episode about how to enjoy his life, how to make other people's lives a better place. That's the big psychology, I think, behind his gift, in that ... it's a tricky one, one that comes with a consequence and a dilemma."

Speaking of Chuck - or Anna Friel, the actress that portrays her - how does this British star feel about really making a splash in the United States?

"I was a little bit frightened because I never had done quite this style of acting before, where it's a little bit and there's a lot of comedy involved," she said. "But I thought, 'I'm going to choose the thing that scares and challenges me the most.' I loved the whole fairy-tale essence of it all, and I thought it was the most exciting script I had seen in a very long time.

"Chuck is just a wonderful character. I mean, she makes honey for the homeless and she's been raised by these two extremely mad aunts and learned several languages and read thousands and thousands of books. That's a great start for a character."

In an article on TV Scoop listing five British actors bound for glory in the States, a certain Pushing Daisies star topped the rankings.

Here's what it said:

1. Anna Friel
Still best known for smooching with a lady as Beth Jordache on British soap Brookside, Anna Friel is set to bid for US stardom in Pushing Daisies. This new offering from Bryan Fuller has been described by Friel's co-star Kristen Chenoweth as "phantasmagorical" and she could be onto something.

Following in the footsteps of other big concept shows such as 24, Lost and Heroes, Pushing Daisies centers on pie maker Ned who discovers he can bring the dead back to life with one touch. This somewhat unorthodox party trick proves useful when the love of his life Chuck (Friel) dies.

The only problem is that once revived, Ned cannot touch the person again otherwise they will die for good.