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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.

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…

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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IN THE past five years, Lee Pace has played a corrupt CIA agent, a cold-blooded killer and a transvestite whose lover is beaten to death.

So his latest role, as one of Amy Adams’ many admirers in the ’30s romantic confection Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day provided some welcome light relief.”All my character Michael really has to do is fall in love with Amy – and that’s an easy thing to do,” says the American actor of the strawberry blonde Enchanted star, and 2006 Oscar nominee, pictured with Pace.

“For a bit of a challenge, I decided to give myself a northern accent and model him on a rough, heart-on-your-sleeve, Albert Finney kind of character.” Continue…

Lee was at the Superheroes Fashion and Fantasy Costume Institute Gala on 5th May. A few pictures are in the gallery.

   

Imagine being a young actor just off your first big film and a director meets you with this most unusual job offer: You are to play a paralyzed soldier and not let on to anyone you know - not even your co-stars or the film’s crew - that you can walk in real life.

It happened to Lee Pace, now the star of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” who filmed his part in director Tarsem Singh’s epic fantasy “The Fall” four years ago when he was not yet famous. He played a bedridden man in a hospital who befriends a young girl with a broken collarbone and starts telling her a vivid, fantastical story of exotic lands.

“I thought, `Great! I’ll really be acting now, great method stuff,”‘ said Lee, who was trained at Juilliard. “I had only done one movie before this. He had seen `Soldier’s Girl’ and thought I’d be perfect for this one. God knows why.” Continue…

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.”

And in this modern fairy-tale – anything can happen! Continue…

I heard you’re a little worried that no one knows about the show, so I’m here to assure you that it’s on in New Zealand and had a big season premiere …

Oh good! I was a little bit concerned because they’re not promoting it here [in Sydney] yet. It hasn’t started but then I heard that it’s on tomorrow night and I was like “Oh God, no one’s going to know that it’s on”. It’s a weird show. You’ve got to get people to watch it. Is it on at a good time in New Zealand?

Yep, it’s on Monday nights, which is good because everyone stays in and watches TV.

Oh, okay, good. So it’s on a big channel at a good time? Good, I’m very happy about that. Continue…

Lee Pace predicts that when they see him singing a song in “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,” a certain group of newly reemployed TV writers will want him to do it for them.

“I have a feeling that once they see this movie, they’ll be working on a musical episode of ‘Pushing Daisies.’”

Pace can relax for the moment, though. While ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” one of the surprise hits of the now writers-strike-shortened TV season, has been picked up for a second season, its initial nine episodes will have to suffice for a while.

“It’s like making a little movie each week,” says Pace, 28, who plays a young man with the power to bring the dead back to life. “But it’s a very expensive show to produce because there are so many special effects. So we won’t be back until the fall.” Continue…