After giving up on the U.S.A once before, Pushing Daises star Anna Friel shares her thoughts with this week’s Page Six Magazine about finally having her breakthrough moment on our shores.So how does an actress best known in Britain for kissing another girl create a stir in America?Through channeling old Hollywood.
On being told it would be difficult for her to have children:
“Knowing that, there was one time that we were perhaps not as careful as we should have been, and bang-o– I was pregnant.I thought, well, so much for ‘it’s going to be difficult.’ I was 28, and it was the best thing ever.”
On her relationship with partner David Thewlis:
“He thinks it’s something really romantic, us never having gotten married. It doesn’t mean we’re not committed, but we don’t need to change anything because things are quite good. Plus we have a child, which is the most bonded thing you can have, anyway.”
On why she’ll never give in to Hollywood’s stick-thin mold:
“I’m not going to come to L.A. and be anorexic.I’ve still got shape.I eat healthily because that’s how I was brought up – I never reach for Cocoa Puffs in the morning.”
On her onscreen kiss with a woman, in 1993, on the English soap Brookside:
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“Knowing that, there was one time that we were perhaps not as careful as we should have been, and bang-o– I was pregnant.I thought, well, so much for ‘it’s going to be difficult.’ I was 28, and it was the best thing ever.”
On her relationship with partner David Thewlis:
“He thinks it’s something really romantic, us never having gotten married. It doesn’t mean we’re not committed, but we don’t need to change anything because things are quite good. Plus we have a child, which is the most bonded thing you can have, anyway.”
On why she’ll never give in to Hollywood’s stick-thin mold:
“I’m not going to come to L.A. and be anorexic.I’ve still got shape.I eat healthily because that’s how I was brought up – I never reach for Cocoa Puffs in the morning.”
On her onscreen kiss with a woman, in 1993, on the English soap Brookside:
“It caused a major uproar because it was the first ever lesbian kiss on [prime-time] television. It was quite risky then, but it sounds funny now to think what a shock it caused.It wasn’t even this huge, big snog…though maybe tongues were slipped.”
On her favorite American actresses:
“I like all the old-school ones… Natalie Wood, Edie Sedgewick, Audrey Hepburn.”
she looks pretty thin to me…what is considered NOT hollywood stick thin? a size 2 or 4?? ridiculous, that is still very tiny.
She’s got shape? Where? Stick thin, just as Gia says.losethatgirl blog
Yay! I love her on Pushing Daisies.
She sounds like pretty much your standard-issue flake actress. So what she kissed a girl before it was trendy. A lot of people did, it just wasn’t on film.
sorry but i find most actors pretentious. Many of them succumb to the pressure of Hollywood and I just find acting so overrated. It`s about making it, getting recognition. Fame can be an awful thing
Oh, give me a bucket. She’s already lost so much weight since she moved to L.A.