ANNA Friel reckons her TV show is “fantastic foreplay”.
The British actress, who has the lead role in hit US series Pushing Daisies, thinks the programme pushes viewers’ buttons because of the extreme sexual chemistry.
Anna’s character Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Charles will die if she touches her lover, leading to some highly-charged moments.
Fantastically tantalising
The 31-year-old said: “I think it is fantastically tantalising. It is the longest foreplay in history.”
Chuck is a murder victim who is restored to life by her childhood sweetheart Ned. But Chuck and Ned can never touch again because in the rules of the plot’s universe another touch from him will kill her.
She added: “I think it goes back to those black-and-white movies of the 40s where you would watch the entire film and be happy with just a kiss at the end of it.”
Anna earned a Golden Globe nomination earlier this year for her role in the show and said she wishes people in the UK would forget about her breakthrough role in Brookside.
She shot to fame after playing convicted killer and lesbian Beth Jordache in the hit UK soap opera.
But Anna moaned: “It is really boring. It was getting to be a joke. Even when I was 80, my epitaph would be ‘Brookside. Used to be in a TV soap.’ How long ago is that now? People talking about the same things - Brookside, dating Robbie Williams and Darren Day, party girl.
“I just think it is time to let it go. Otherwise, the last 13 years have been for nothing.”
Anna has been dating Harry Potter actor David Thewlis for seven years. The couple have a two-year-old daughter Grace.
Pushing Daisies starts on ITV next month.
