“Pushing Daisies” was the only new show that received a Golden Globe nomination alongside its lead actors, Lee Pace and Anna Friel.
“We all knew it was something special when we got involved with the project, but we didn’t realize other people would recognize it so quickly and so surely,” Friel told the Los Angeles Times. “I think it confirms our belief that it’s inventive and something very special on TV that people haven’t seen before.”
Where else on television do you find a lonely pie maker like Ned (Pace) who can bring things back to life with his touch and who is in love with a dead woman named Chuck (Friel) whom he revived but can never touch again or she will die permanently?
Pace, who previously worked on “Wonderfalls” with “Daisies” creator Bryan Fuller, said the complications make the part that much more fun to play.
“And I am so appreciative of working with someone like Anna. She works so hard and is not one of those actresses who is happy to just look pretty in front of the camera.”
For her part, Friel says she would have hated being nominated by herself.
“We’re both perfectionists and we work very hard,” said the British-born Friel. “We concentrate very hard because the dialogue is so poetic and it’s so fast and rhythmic. If you let your concentration slip for 10 minutes, the scene is ruined.”
