I hope you’re not Comic Con’d out because there is still a LOT more to share from our trip to San Diego to see Team Daisies. ThePieMaker.com has got an exclusive interview with creator Bryan Fuller as well as highlights from our interviews with Lee Pace & Anna Friel, Kristin Chenoweth and Chi McBride still coming your way.

But for now, check out these vides from TV Guide as they caught up with the cast in the press room at Comic Con (It amazes me how they capture any sound…it was so loud in there). As with most of the news from Comic Con, these videos contain spoilers for S2 so please be aware.

Anna Friel

Lee Pace

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Kristin Dos Santos got a chance to talk to Lee Pace, Dan Jinks and Barry Sonnenfeld just minutes after they and the rest of Team Daisies finished signing a ton of autographs for fans at Comic Con.  She gets them to talk a little bit about Season 2 so if you aren’t into spoilers of any kind then you might not want to hit play.

Kristin Chenoweth can now add EMMY nominated actress to her long list of accomplishments.  This morning E!’s Kristin Dos Santos was the first to catch up with Kristin just moments after she was surprised by her Oustanding Supporting Actress is Comedy nomination.

Sorry, but you just gotta love the height difference between Cheno and KDS.  Love it!

Congrats once again, Kristin.  We may be biased but we think you’ll get the “popular” vote!

Anna Friel is the focus of a new article and interview from Variety. The Hollywood news staple is spotlighting all the leading ladies who are in contention for an Emmy nomination this year. We hope that Anna’s name will be announced when the nominations are announced in July.Here’s an excerpt from the article…

“I watched a lot of her mannerisms and the way she looks at things,” Friel says. “Every single thing to her is new and fresh, and (she’s) not judgmental. But how could I do that and not make Chuck ditsy?”

To figure it out, Friel played nearly every scene three different ways. By the time production started on the second episode, she had found the right tone. Also, she continued working with a voice coach to help her mask her British accent and maneuver through the show’s smart, often rapid-fire dialogue rarely seen since “Gilmore Girls” — efforts that earned the actress a Golden Globe nomination.

(click here to read the full article)

Favorite scene: “When she’s by the grave (with Ned) and says, ‘Please wake my dad up. I just want to see him for a minute.’ And he says, ‘I can’t.’ There were quite a lot of choices about how to play it because she has to be forgiving of him and also understand why he made that decision.”

What you like most about your character: “She’s the strongest, sweetest person that I’ve ever come across, which is a complete contradiction. How can you be incredibly sweet but you’re also as strong as a rock? I like that contradiction.”

TV guilty pleasure: “I’ve bought ‘The Sopranos’ DVD sets and I’ll watch five (episodes) at a time.

Lee Pace has been nothing if not the man of the press these past few months. In addition to traveling the world promoting PUSHING DAISIES, Lee has also been on the interview circuit talking about his new movie THE FALL. In this interview with Metromix, Lee touches on the network’s involvement in the show and the type of movie roles he isn’t interested in pursuing.

You mentioned the failure of “Wonderfalls” earlier. Did you feel like it was an uphill battle against the network while making the show?
We were all trying to do our best on it, but everyone knew that there was a fight with Fox, that Fox did not like the lesbian storyline. We were also on the same year “The O.C.” premiered. We would do a whole episode, and then the cast would ask [the network], “Is there anything we can do differently?” And they were like, “No, you’re great!” But you know that there were probably ten executives on the set of “The O.C.” debating whether or not Mischa Barton should wear espadrilles.

So has “Pushing Daisies” been a more positive TV experience?
Look, [the network execs] still have opinions. I think the idea of the show really works, and it makes people feel good, and the executives have got really great ideas. Everyone’s pitching in and trying to let it be as good as it can be, and part of that is making it maybe a little less weird. It doesn’t have to be so bizarre that it turns people off. I mean, it’s a pie maker who touches dead things back to life! It’s a weird idea already, so any way we can make it palatable is good, I think.

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STUNNING Brit actress Anna Friel has Hollywood under her spell.
From SARA NATHAN
TV Editor - The Sun (Reprinted from The Sun)

She is starring in hit US TV comedy Pushing Daisies and is captivating audiences as she did when she was introduced as Beth Jordache on Channel 4 soap Brookside in 1993.

But it took a fair amount of bravery to cross the pond again after failing there on her first trip since leaving Brookie.

Anna had a brilliant turn as a stripper in Broadway play Closer in 1998, later Natalie Portman played her role in the big-screen version. But Anna then slunk home after the harsh realities of Hollywood sank in.
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The divine divas from E!, Kristen Dos Santos and Korbi Ghosh, hit the Pushing Daisies Paley Festival Red Carpet and got the poop, the scoop, the skinny, the haps, the dilly-o and the 411. Chi McBride also reveals that the writing staff is on crack. Mild Spoilers coming your way!

Head on over to Watch With Kristin to see the whole post and a picture from the panel that has both Kath and I visible in the bottom left. Dorks!

If you’ve been following our coverage of the Pushing Daisies Paley Festival panel then you know we’re planning on doing another Piecast Podcast to chat about how incredible the evening was but we couldn’t help get some information up after all the emails we’ve received.

The Piecast will hopefully be ready for Monday night as we’ve decided to hold out until after our visit to the Writers Room in the afternoon in case Bryan Fuller and Co. give us any scoop we can spill to all the fans. Fingers crossed gang!

As we’re really trying to save our thoughts until the Piecast, we decided it would be a good chance to have some of our loyal ThePieMaker.com readers in attendance share their thoughts with you all!

First up is Patricia from San Diego (who oddly enough happens to be the Sister of my friend Jenny, strange but true) who attended the panel with her husband Michael. Patricia’s got a ton of quotes from the panel as well as some fun tidbits that the cast and crew shared. Some of our burning questions are answered as well. Ever wonder if Ned is a Vegetarian or if Ned & Chuck could ever possibly have a baby? Well, read on…

Second will be reader Erika with a quick take on what it was like to be a fan and aspiring TV Writer in attendance of her favorite show.

Take it away ladies…
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CinemaBlend.com recently had a chance to take part in an interview with Lee Pace for his upcoming role as Michael in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Among other things, Lee talked about taking on an English accent for the role, the difference between TV and movies, and why he was at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.

It’s a great read and you should really check it out. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.

How did you work on the British accent you have in the film? How hard was it?
I think people are really picky about English accents. When a Brit comes over here and kind of does an OK American accent, everyone’s like “You were great! Fantastic!” But in England, even if you were doing a pretty good accent, they’re like “But where are you from?” “London.” “What part of London?” Accents are really precious over there. Joan Washington did both me and Frances’ dialect work. When I first read it, I saw the script as full of these posh English people. I just wanted to do something a little different with Michael. I did him with a northern accent– Albert Finney was what I had in mind. So he was more blue collar, heart on his sleeve, passionate. I don’t know it if makes much of a difference.

Did they instruct you to look at any old movies to get at the very specific way of speaking in this movie?
Pushing Daisies, is that old-fashioned romance where you’re not going to see the kiss until the very end of the movie, or there’s a good banter between the leads of it. We watch those Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn…. I don’t know if a modern audience would buy people talking the way they did back then. It’s a very specific kind of acting. About three years ago I saw this documentary with out-takes with people like Montgomery Clift. It was so cool to watch them doing their crazy acting talk, and then all of a sudden they would mess up their line, and they would talk like we talk. These are the guys who are supposed to have invented naturalism, and they’re not natural, they’re nowhere near natural. I don’t know if that style would really work now.

What is the difference for you between working in TV and film?
The day is different. The way the day runs if totally different. With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don’t really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I’m going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.
(continue reading at CinemaBlend.com)

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CNN via the Associated Press has a great article about Kristin Chenoweth’s preparation for her upcoming performance at Sunday’s Oscar ceremony. The PUSHING DAISIES star will be singing a song from the movie “Enchanted”.

“It’s the biggest audience I’ve ever had,” the 4-foot, 11-inch performer with the outsized voice told The Associated Press. “I’ve played many of the famous concert halls in the world but this is something altogether different. I’m just going to try to perform the song and make it about the music and not get too nervous.”

Chenoweth went on to say “I’m trying to think of it like another gig, even though I know it’s not the Met or Carnegie Hall. It’s the Oscars and it’s several billion people,” she said, pretending to gag at the overwhelmingness of it all.

“I’m really excited about my dress and I’m really excited about the whole night. Of course I’m rooting for anything from ‘Enchanted’ to win.”

Kristin will have her PUSHING DAISIES fans rooting her on. Best of luck!!

Read the full article here.

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