Pushing Daisies - Anna Friel/Chuck #5~ B/c she's had breakfast at Ned's and now at Tiffany's - Page 6

**strawberrypie** · 06-23-2009, 11:33 AM

What's up with youtube lately?

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Thanks for posting!

lala000 · 06-23-2009, 11:43 AM

are the videos not showing for you? They are for me.

BTW, the link to the Chuck outfit community in the OP is great

I didn't see this posted yet, but an article about Anna reflecting on PD, kind of a bittersweet read

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fter more than five months off the air, "Pushing Daisies" is finally coming back to ABC tomorrow night (May 30), though the show's return is a bittersweet one for fans.

Not only has ABC scheduled "Pushing Daisies" for Saturdays at 10 p.m., a woebegone diaspora that only barely deserves the designation of "primetime," but this will be the final trio of episodes before the Emmy-winning series goes off the air forever.

Talking with reporters on Friday morning about her role in the upcoming summer film "Land of the Lost," Anna Friel was excited to see the new episodes and to watch them with friends, including co-star Lee Pace.

"Lee's gonna come to the premiere tomorrow, that and Bryan Fuller. I've got all my 'Daisies' clan, they'll wanna come and watch," Friel says. "I'm very excited. I've got them on DVD, but I wanted to wait to watch them go out live. Although it was a short run of a series, this'll be... I read it, a journalist from USA Today put it really nicely, he said it'll be a show that will last forever, it didn't run long, but it'll last forever. It was such a daring and creative project to do in the first place and hopefully it'll open up many doors for TV."

Since the upcoming finale was never intended as a series finale, there have been rumors about Fuller's hopes to resurrect the "Pushing Daisies" universe in some other form at some future time.

"They are doing a comic thing and I know it's always his dream to do some kind of film version, whether that actually comes to fruition, we'll have to see," she says. "But the real ending, he's imagined, he's had it planned out for over a few years and the real ending was so beautiful and touching, what he'd first discussed. This is lovely, Chuck gets to go and, I don't wanna spoil it for you, but she gets to actually see the aunts and knocks on the door and you find out what happens to Olive and... I don't want to ruin it!"

While film writers have to let their actors know where their full storylines are going for a two-hour feature, TV showrunners are notoriously stingy when it comes to keeping their casts in the loop very far in advance, but did those previous comments mean that Friel knew where things were eventually headed for Chuck and The Piemaker?

"I do! It was lovely," she assures us. "That's the thing with TV. Sometimes you're so excited because you think, 'Well, I know that's gonna come and that's gonna come.' And sometimes they don't want to fill you in with that, because they don't want you to play it before the actual character would know, but sometimes you need help with that and every few months we'd go in to Bryan and you'd see the writers' storyboards and you'd see how Chuck was tracked and how Ned was it and was so exciting, because even after the 17-hour days, you'd just think, 'Oh, I've got that coming up and I get to have scenes with them.' And my favorite characters were always Lily and Vivian, the aunts, and I was desperate, I was so jealous that everyone else had scenes with the aunts and I thought, 'As soon as they know Chuck's alive, I can start doing that.'"

Saturday's episode, titled "Window Dressed to Kill," will be followed by "Water and Power" on June 6 and the series finale, "Kerplunk" on June 13. With a nine-episode first season and a 13-episode second run, "Pushing Daisies" will basically have completed the equivalent of a season full season, not nearly long enough for a show that won awards and topped critics' lists for two years straight.

Does Friel have any theories on why popular success was beyond the show's grasp?

"I think the strike had a lot to do with a lot of shows, because it's not your average show and it was just starting to pick up momentum and if you take something off the air for a year and to have to re-find those viewers and I think it was quite a complex storyline," she notes. "It wasn't something that you could just go, "Oh, well we're turn it on," because the whole procedural element made sure you had to really really listen and I think it was a big, bold thing for ABC to take on. It was incredibly expensive. It was incredibly bright. It was was something that was daring, but again, I think well-done to them for being brave enough to actually take it on and create something new and fresh."

Friel continues, "I don't know. I can't answer that. Maybe there just weren't enough fans. The fans that were there and loyal and strong and true, are avid fans, but maybe it just didn't capture people's imagination the way it should. If I really knew the answer to that, I'd be running a network."

lala000 · 06-23-2009, 02:09 PM

UNSCRIPTED interview between Anna, Will Ferrell and Danny McBride

(These are usually pretty funny and more interesting since the actors interview each other and joke around)

Unscripted Interview (Anna mispronounces "Des Moines" and "Louisville", she is adorable

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Clip-Anna answers a question about PD I love her quote "It felt kinda trippy going to work everyday"

Clip-Danny on being Anna Friel

ETA- oops I just noticed, dp

CharlotteC · 06-23-2009, 03:22 PM

I saw Land of the Lost! I thought it was pretty funny and Anna was great in it and had good chemistry with the two other male leads

I read that she was #24 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2009 too.

lala000 · 06-23-2009, 06:23 PM

^yeah here's the article about her:

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Number 24 - Anna Friel

Anna Friel could easily have ended up as an attorney. But that would have been a damn shame (and a tragic oversight). Instead, after her career was launched with an infamous lesbian kiss on British soap opera, Brookside, Friel has enjoyed a successful – if understated career.

Championing the ‘freckly cute but certifiably feisty’ niche, Friel has won critical acclaim both on Broadway and in Hollywood. And also starred in a handful of under-the-radar B-movies.

And all this before she picked up a Golden Globe for her lead role in ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies. The reason to watch it if you're not already? Anna Friel’s large, expressive eyes. Obviously.

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I like the "freckly cute but certifiably fiesty" description, we could use it for the next title

Also the new promo pics are just too pretty not to include in the OP, especially this one:

So I may add a picspam, unless someone else has a creative idea for some more pics in the OP

Also any favorite Chuck/Anna quotes would be nice

**strawberrypie** · 06-23-2009, 06:32 PM

Yes, that pic is absolutely gorgeous

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And all this before she picked up a Golden Globe for her lead role in ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies.

They mean a nomination, right?

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lala000 · 06-23-2009, 06:39 PM

they also make it sound like you can still watch PD on TV

I wouldn't take it too seriously, it's FHM after all

I'm also going to add a recent pics section and link to good Anna interviews (after finishing the quotes and more pics that is). So hopefully one day in the near future the OP will be more completed

**strawberrypie** · 06-23-2009, 06:51 PM

Just today I was thinking we should have a "recent pics" section in all the threads. Are you sure you don't read minds?

lala000 · 06-23-2009, 07:04 PM

You know what they say...great minds think alike

But yes, that would be a great addition to all the threads

ETA- add to the ongoing "Reasons" list (why you love Chuck/Anna)

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B/c she's incredibly charming and delightful
B/c she's "freckly cute but certifiably fiesty"
B/c our new shopping motto is: What would Chuck wear?
B/c she can solve a murder case in a dress and heels
B/c Anna's british accent is adorable
B/c she looks cute even she's drugging your pie
B/c she's an adventurous urban honey pioneer

CharlotteC · 06-24-2009, 12:44 AM

Anna is so gorgeous

I just looked at the op, it looks soooo great! Is it done?

hm my reason

because she's a master of foreign languages and the law

(i'll think of more later

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Starfield_Scribe · 06-24-2009, 07:37 AM

OPs are always a work in progress

**strawberrypie** · 06-24-2009, 11:20 AM

I love all the reasons!

And the OP looks great

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lala000 · 06-24-2009, 11:32 AM

Thanks bb.

And no the OP is not quite done (will it ever be

) but it's almost there

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I was thinking the other day...where would you guys rank Chuck on your list of favorite females on TV? Is she on the list? Just curious

**ice_ice_baby** · 06-24-2009, 12:51 PM

Wow, I never thought about where she would rank on an overall "favorite females on TV" list

For this show, though, she kinda ranks under the other 3 females of this show

Nothing wrong with her or anything, but she's not as interesting as the other gals IMO.

lala000 · 06-24-2009, 01:09 PM

all the females on the show are great. I just love Chuck b/c I think she's kind of understated- it's hard to find female leads that are strong yet happy and relatively drama-free (not all angsty/moody) on TV these days.

Plus I think she brings a more emotional element to the show to balance out all the quirky from the other characters

I've heard from some people that she's too perky but I think that's just a surface of her.