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She shot to fame as Brookside’s teenage lesbian, before wowing Broadway as the stripper with a heart in Closer. In real life, she’s been playing happy families with fellow actor David Thewlis. But now Anna Friel is back in the limelight as the star of Pushing Daisies, one of the year’s hottest new TV shows.

It was when she was driving along Hollywood Boulevard the other day that Anna Friel realised that she really had made it big. “I looked up and I saw a huge billboard by the road. There was my face, several metres high. It made me feel very proud. Especially,” she adds with a chuckle, “as they hadn’t had to give me any Botox!” Continue…

We’ve heard a lot about former Brookside star Anna Friel’s latest hit series, Pushing Daisies, though her fans on this side of the Pond will be desperate to see what all the fuss is about.

There’s still a wait until it airs on ITV1, but in the meantime, she’s been talking about why her other half and that of co-star Lee Pace think the show is the bees’ knees.

Pace plays Ned, a man who has the ability to bring back the dead with a single brush of the finger, but if he touches them again, they stay dead for ever. When he reanimated his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Friel), he knew he could never touch her again.

Anna explained to The Sun: “It’s the perfect role for any jealous girlfriend or boyfriend - they’ve got nothing to worry about! ‘Ok, you’re going to work today, but you’re not going to be touching, are you? Shame!’

“It’s a mad, visual fairy-tale world, it’s driven strongly by a love story. Chuck and Ned just long to be together, and long to be able to have sex but they’re never going to be able to.”

She added: “It’s not like on Brookside and you’re like, ‘So who’s she kissing this week then?’ The imagination can run wild, they come up with the most genius things.”

So, what does she like about her alter ego, Chuck?

“I liked the idea of playing a character that was absolutely fearless,” she said.

“She’s had a chance to look at life for a second time and she looks at life with big wide eyes and true joy, every single minute.

“And she completely loves Ned, totally and utterly in love. It’s a good old romantic story.”

ANNA FRIEL and Lee Pace know their partners adore their new show Pushing Daisies - because there’s no touchy-Friel-y.

The sexy co-stars admit this is one romantic comedy they don’t have to reassure their jealous beloveds about.

The Golden Globe-nominated show, which comes to ITV1 soon, is a fantasy love story about a young man, Ned (Lee), who has an extraordinary talent – he can bring the dead back to life with just one touch.

Ned’s childhood sweetheart Chuck (Anna) has been murdered, so of course he uses his gift to resurrect her. However, if he touches her again, she dies, and cannot be revived.

Anna Friel told us: “I liked the idea of playing a character that was absolutely fearless, she’s had a chance to look at life for a second time and she looks at life with big wide eyes and true joy, every single minute – and she completely loves Ned, totally and utterly in love. It’s a good old romantic story.�

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Actress Anna Friel is considering cosmetic surgery - after spotting the early signs of ageing in her car rearview mirror.

The ‘Pushing Daisies’ star admits to pulling back her face while stuck in traffic to see how she would look if she went under the knife - even though she is only 31 years old.

But the English beauty will have to convince her actor boyfriend David Thewlis, after he pointed out her unnaturally taut skin made her look like an alien.

She says: “I don’t think I need Botox or cosmetic surgery right now, but I’m sure I will later on. But show me a woman in her 30s who, when she’s in her car and stuck at traffic lights doesn’t look in the mirror, then pull her face back with her palms and think, ‘Does that look better?’

“I did it the other day and David was with me and said: ‘You look like an alien’. A bit of maintenance here and there is fine, but you want to grow older a little gracefully.”

Actress Anna Friel has admitted feeling “nervous” about what the UK will make of her hit US show Pushing Daisies when it airs next month.

Speaking before a screening of the programme at Hollywood’s Paley Television Festival, she said: “I’m so nervous, all the big billboards have started to go up [in the UK] so I’m hoping they like it. It’s very important for me that the Brits like it.”

The show has meant Anna and her family have moved to LA, and the former Brookside star is loving it.

“I’m really settled here now. I went back [to Britain] for two weeks about three weeks ago for the first time in ages, it was lovely, but it’s really nice to come back,” she said.

Anna’s co-star Lee Pace explained the show’s premise: “I play Ned who can touch the dead back to life. If the dead live for longer than a minute then something else will die and if I touch something for a second time they die again forever. But in the first episode I bring to life my childhood sweetheart (played by Anna) and high comedy ensues.”

Ned’s gift means the pair can never touch each other or Anna’s character Chuck will die forever. And Lee revealed there are several re-takes when he accidentally touches Anna during filming.

“She’ll drop dead and we’ll all laugh and have to do another take but I really like that there’s that standing in between us, rather than us falling into bed together.”

Pushing Daisies airs on ITV in April.

Despite serving just a two-year sentence in the confines of Brookside Close, much of Anna Friel’s career seems to have been influenced by one moment in the Channel 4 soap, with her on-screen kiss with Nicola Stephenson making more headlines for Rochdale-born Friel than any of her later acclaimed performances.

Whether appearing as an impeccably-accented nurse in the Goal! trilogy of football movies or courting controversy with parts in Stephen Poliakoff’s The Tribe and Perfect Strangers, that pre-watershed lesbian kiss would, for many, have been the overriding memory of the actress. Until now…

As unlikely as it seems for a former Brookside star to have earned a Golden Globe nomination - ok, Jennifer Ellison was alright in The Phantom of the Opera - Friel has done just that in the last year, thanks to Pushing Daisies. A wonderfully loveable show from US network ABC, it’s imminently due to make its debut on UK screens, after ITV took the unusually bold step of ordering a whole season on the strength of one pilot.
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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.” Continue…

It seems Anna Friel’s reason for upping sticks to the US was that she felt fed up with her image in the UK.

The 31-year-old actress, who came to prominence in Britain as Beth Jordache in Brookside over a decade ago, apparently grew tired of the soap label and was unable to shake other relics of her past.

Now based in Los Angeles with her partner, novelist and Harry Potter actor David Thewlis, the beauty said unsuccessful romances with Darren Day and Robbie Williams continued to haunt her at home, according to the Daily Express.

“It was getting to be a joke here,” the paper quotes her as telling Esquire Magazine.

“Even if I was 80, my epitaph would be ‘Brookside. Used to be in a TV soap.’ How long is it now? Thirteen years.”

Anna, who appears in the new US comedy drama Pushing Daisies, went on: “It’s just really boring. People talking about the same things: Brookside, Darren Day, Robbie Williams, party girl. I just think it’s time to let it go.”

Anna Friel has revealed she refused to be pushed around when a Pushing Daisies producer asked her to lose weight for the television show.She told Women’s Health magazine recently: “I told him he could have me - or a model without a brain in her head.�

“The obsession with weight today is just incredible. Curves have gone out the window, and I don’t understand it. For me, I think if you’re disciplined enough to stop eating when you’re not hungry, then you can maintain a balance.�

“Look at French women: They eat cheese, drink wine, and they have incredible bodies and skin. I can’t even do that water, water, water thing. I get so bored of it. But I do drink English tea, PG Tips, all day long. Eight cups a day!�

“I also eat three bananas a day, every day. On set, they call me Anna Banana. I’m obsessed. If I’m tired, they make me feel better.�

She added she has a similar lax attitude to exercise: “When I first moved to LA, I got a trainer, but when we started doing the show, the whole thing fell apart. But I have a row machine now. That’s how I lost all my baby weight in three months!�

Anna was at the Warner Music Group Post-Grammy Party yesterday. Pictures are in the gallery.