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With one touch, Ned (Lee Pace, left) can bring the dead back to life. But the second prod kills them again — which means that after he resurrects his true love, Chuck (former Brookside star Anna Friel, right), they can never touch again.

The stars of Pushing Daisies — available to watch now on Vision TV — talk about the show.

On the show
“I think the true sense of romance in this series is particularly special and goes back to those ’30s and ’40s movies where all you’re waiting for is one kiss at the end. I think people love that. And I also think it makes them laugh.” – Anna Friel, Toronto Star

On not being able to touch
“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!’” – Anna Friel, The Sun

“The whole story is about how we look at each other. It’s like a great love story in our eyes. We tried method acting and not touching on set, but Anna will forget and come up and give me a big hug.” – Lee Pace, ITV

On their characters
“Playing Ned is really nice. It’s really fun to be in love all day, and kind of have this whole world open up. It makes my life better, so I’ll take it.” — Lee Pace, the Malaysian Star

“I’d never have got the part of Chuck if it wasn’t for [daughter] Gracie. My daughter’s experiencing life for the first time. I looked at her and the way she thinks opening a box of Cornflakes is this wondrous event and just thought: ‘I’ll play it like I’m seeing life through her eyes.’” – Anna Friel, Daily Mail

On fitting into their roles
“The writer told me ‘I wrote the part with you in mind. Would you please do it?’. It felt really good, although I don’t know how I should feel about a character who brings dead things back to life and makes pies being written for me.” — Lee Pace, the Malaysian Star

“When I work, I stay in my American accent all day. The crew think it’s funny when I speak with an English accent. They say, ‘Why are you talking in that silly accent?’” – Anna Friel, Daily Mirror

On looking the part
“When I first started filming, my agent and the producer told me I needed to have my teeth whitened. I was actually quite offended. When I saw [the test film]… compared to everyone else my teeth looked green. I was horribly embarrassed.” — Anna Friel, the Daily Mail

On the Hollywood lifestyle
“You get recognised in airports. You will be sitting at dinner, and there’ll be people across from you who are watching you eat and very obviously thinking about how they are going to tell their friends about spotting Ned. That’s really weird. *Really* weird.” – Lee Pace, the Malaysian Star.

‘”My house has become a refuge for British actors. Normally everyone has to stay in hotels and everyone’s like ‘Friel’s got a house, let’s go and crash at hers!”’ – Anna Friel, the BBC

On who they’d bring back to life
“My grandmother, because I loved her very much.” – Lee Pace, teenhollywood.com

“John Lennon because I’d love to have met him, Marilyn Monroe to find out if she actually did commit suicide - and I sound very over-earnest, but Gandhi, because of the state of our world.” – Anna Friel, Marie Claire

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