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Lee Pace says his dog woke him the morning the Emmy nominations were announced last week.

“My dog woke me up because he wakes me up every morning to go on a hike,” said Pace, who was nominated for Best Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as amiable piemaker Ned on “Pushing Daisies.”

“He doesn’t care about the Emmys,” Pace told The Associated Press. “But when I got up and saw I had a lot of messages, I knew what it meant. It’s nice and I’m really happy and I am back to work today,” he said.

Pace, who “stumbled” into acting in high school and went on to study at New York City’s famed Juilliard School, has appeared in several Broadway plays, as well as films like “The Good Shepherd” with Matt Damon and “Possession” with Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Despite his impressive credentials, the Texas-born actor said he’s “not totally comfortable” with his new-found fame, which includes being recognized at airports and shopping malls.

“I’d rather stay reclusive at home with my dog,” he admitted.

To celebrate the release of hit TV series Pushing Daisies, we sit down with Anna Friel and talk accents, daisies and babies.

You must be very excited about the success Pushing Daisies is having both in the US and here:

Anna Friel: I’m really proud of it! We have such a great time making it. I’m loving it.

How do you account for the show’s success?

AF: It’s nice for people to go home at the end of the day and see something uplifting, and yet it is still for the intelligent mind because there’s the procedural to work out.

How would describe your character Chuck?:

AF: Apart from being very funny, she holds on to every wonderful childlike quality there is, particularly now she has a second chance at life. She embraces every single thing in life and appreciates every beautiful sky and sunset and smile. She’s incredibly loving and an old romantic, but she’s also very intelligent because she reads, like, 100 books a day and speaks I don’t know how many languages and plays instruments. That said, she’s lived quite a sheltered life with two mad, eccentric aunts so she’s a mixture of everything. You can never not be surprised by Chuck.

How easy is the American accent for you?:

AF: I stay with the accent all day long when I’m filming. It makes thing much easier. To an English ear my American accent might sound perfect, but on the set I have my dialect coach and I get 10 or 12 notes a day about my pronunciation. Using the accent even between scenes is a discipline, it makes me concentrate that much harder at work – when I’m American I know I’m at work.

Do you have any similarities with Chuck?:

AF: My daughter has. I base quite a lot of it on Gracie. She’s two and a half now and she has that excitement and that glee. I’d like to think I’m similar to Chuck, too, although she’s a lot more positive than me and doesn’t worry. She isn’t as anxious as I am but her spirit has rubbed off on me – I play her 17 hours a day so it can’t help rub off. Continue…

Stage and screen stars Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris will announce the nominees for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards next month.

Chenoweth and Harris will make the announcement July 17 at 8:40 ET at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. They will be joined by John Shaffner, the chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 21. ABC-TV will broadcast the event live from the NOKIA Theatre in Los Angeles beginning at 8 PM ET.

Kristin Chenoweth, who received a Tony nomination for her work as Glinda in Stephen Schwartz’s Wicked, has been seen on the New York stage in The Fantasticks, Scapin, Steel Pier, A New Brain, Epic Proportions, Strike Up the Band, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Apple Tree, Stairway to Paradise and Candide. The actress won her Tony Award for her performance as Sally Brown in the Broadway bow of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Chenoweth recently released her second solo recording, “As I Am” (Sony Classical), and her screen credits include “Kristin,” “The West Wing,” “The Music Man,” “The Pink Panther,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” “Deck the Halls” and “Running with Scissors.” Chenoweth can currently be seen on the new ABC series “Pushing Daisies.” Continue…

Lee Pace didn’t make Entertainment Weekly’s recent list of Hollywood’s candidates for the next-generation A-list.  But the photogenic “Pushing Daisies” star is definitely a comer.

With the arrival of Tarsem’s multinational fantasy “The Fall” Pace was offered the opportunity to look back to when his career was just beginning to pop.   The six foot four Pace, now 29, has become a familiar face with the quirky series “Pushing Daisies.”  As Ned, who can bring people back from the dead with a single touch, a role created specifically for him.  “Daisies” returns this fall.

It was four years ago when Tarsem was casting his self-financed fable and Pace’s only substantial credit at that time was an acclaimed turn as a drag queen who precipitates a military tragedy in the fact-based “Soldier’s Girl” which co-starred Jane Fonda’s son Troy Garity.

Tarsem, the innovative video filmmaker who debuted with 2000’s “The Cell,” gambled on this unknown and won.  As “Fall” arrived Pace was just onscreen as Amy Adams’ poor but true love in “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.”  Later this year he stars opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Possession.”
For Pace “The Cell,” which Tarsem spent years filming in 24 countries, remains a treasured memory.  All his scenes were filmed in South Africa as a stand-in for WWI-era California   “There has been no studio, no producers.  Tarsem’s had to answer to no one,” Pace said.  “It’s a story he’s been working on since before ‘The Cell.’”      Continue…

A SUPPOSEDLY formal press interview with actor Lee Pace turns into an instantly friendly 20-minute chat – Pace is just that kind of guy.

The American star of Pushing Daisies is in Sydney, Australia, in February when we meet. Dressed head to toe in black, the tall actor exudes warmth and a laidback personality that, at times, seems a little bewildered and uncomfortable at being the centre of attention.

Actually, if you want to know what Pace is like in person, all you have to is watch Pushing Daisies. Pace is just like the character he plays, Ned: a tad shy, very nice, and an all-round good guy.

“I can’t bring dead things back to life with a touch,” Pace points out one major difference. “(But) I would say he’s a lot like me actually.”

Well, it makes sense: Daisies creator Bryan Fuller wrote Ned with Pace in mind, after all.

Pace was well on his way to making his mark in showbiz even before Daisies, if his resume is any indication: he started in an off-Broadway production a month before graduating from the prestigious performing arts school, Julliard, in New York, and followed that feat up by giving amazing performances in productions like 2003’s TV movie Soldier’s Girl (in which he plays a woman!) and in 2006’s Robert De Niro-directed movie, The Good Shepherd. Continue…

It was 14 days before cameras would start rolling on the pilot of “Pushing Daisies,” and creator Bryan Fuller had just met the perfect love interest for the show’s main character.Anna Friel wasn’t so sure.

“I remember having a conversation with my agent and I said, ‘I don’t think I can do this. I don’t think I can be all-American,’” says the British-born actress. “It’s not just about an accent, it’s a whole way of being — intonation, rhythms and all of that.”

The facts were these: “Daisies” was indeed a departure for Friel, who has a resume that’s short on comedy but includes such heavy roles as a murderess in the biopic “Bathory” and a heroin addict in “Niagara Motel.” On the other hand, ABC’s darkly whimsical fairy tale — about a mild-mannered guy who can revive the dead with his first touch and return them to the great beyond with a second — featured a lead female character who remains eternally optimistic, and Fuller wanted her for the part. Continue…

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When the nominations for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards are announced July 17, there’s a good chance that actress Kristin Chenoweth’s name will be among those listed for supporting actress in a comedy series. As Olive Snook on “Pushing Daisies,” Ms. Chenoweth is part of a talented ensemble and a show that’s likely to garner a slew of Emmy nominations.

As Olive, a waitress at a diner specializing in pies called the Pie Hole, she is hopelessly devoted to her boss, Ned (Lee Pace). It’s an unrequited love, because Ned is enamored with Charlotte “Chuck” Charles (Anna Friel), the girl he’s loved since childhood.

Despite the heartache, Ms. Chenoweth’s Olive is tenaciously positive and determined to win his heart. “Olive never says die,” Ms. Chenoweth said of her character. Continue…

Michelle Ryan’s turn as the Bionic Woman has won her top place in a poll of the worst attempts at US accents.

The former EastEnder, 24, starred as Jaime Sommers in last year’s remake of the 1970s cult series before it was cancelled because of the US writers’ strike.

Eddie Izzard made second place for his role as Wayne Malloy in The Riches.

Anna Friel was next for her performance as Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, who comes back from the dead in Pushing Daisies.

Fourth place went to Hugh Laurie in his Golden Globe-winning role as Dr Gregory House in House.

Lancashire-born Ian McShane is next for his role as Al Swearengen in Deadwood.

The top 10 was completed by Essex-born Sean Maguire in The Class, Minnie Driver in The Riches, Joely Richardson in Nip/Tuck, Louise Lombard in CSI; Crime Scene Investigation, and Dominic West in crime drama The Wire.

Helen Hackworthy, the editor of RadioTimes.com, which carried out the poll, said: “Just as Dick Van Dyke struggled with his English accent in Mary Poppins, so too are some Brits failing to pull off convincing American accents.”

Just over 3,000 fans were polled on the Radio Times website.

Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel has been voted TV’s sexiest leading woman.One in five have the hots for Friel, a poll carried out by the Hallmark Channel revealed, reports the Daily Record.

Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives followed Friel in the sexiest female TV character top 10.

Evangeline Lily, who plays Kate Austin in Lost was at number three while Heroes star Hayden Panettiere was at the fourth spot.

Rounding off the top five was Rose Byrne, who plays Ellen Parson in Damages.

More than 1,600 TV viewers took part in the survey, which was aimed at examining the effects of sex appeal on keeping people hooked on their favourite TV shows.

The recipe for sexiness in a TV character was thought to include charisma (38 percent), looking great (36 percent) and not playing by the rules (12 percent). Continue…

Taresm Singh’s The Fall takes place in Los Angeles during the 1920’s. The story revolves around a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) who finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee Pace) who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story, he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into this extraordinarily visual tale. We recently caught up with both the film’s director Taresm Singh as well as his leading man, Lee Pace, for some insight into the production.

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