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Topic Started: Jul 31 2007, 02:42 AM (113 Views)
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One of the most glowingly-reviewed pilots of the upcoming Fall TV season is ABC's Pushing Daisies, from gay creator-producer Bryan Fuller (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me) and out exec producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen (American Beauty). The show revolves around Ned (Lee Pace of Soldier's Girl and Wonderfalls), who is blessed and cursed with the power to bring dead people and animals back to life. The curse part involves the two downsides of his ability -- if he revives someone or something for more than a minute, something else has to die; and once he resurrects you, you'll die if he touches you again. So when Ned revives Charlotte (Anna Friel), aka Chuck, the woman he adores, they can love each other but never, ever touch.

After a huge audience at Saturday morning's Comic-Con screening gushed with enthusiasm over the visually extravagant, achingly romantic, and drily witty Pushing Daisies pilot -- with most of the questions going to co-star Kristin Chenoweth, thus proving that Comic-Con attendees are bigger musical theater fans than one might realize -- Fuller sat down for a bit and chatted about his delectable new show.

I think Pushing Daisies is the ultimate safe-sex show. Did that frame the way you looked at the central relationship?
It didn’t occur to me until someone pointed out that it was a great metaphor for internet sex, because so many people are at their keyboards, clacking away with their fingertips, and their fingertips never touch flesh except their own. I like that there is a central metaphor about not having sex.

Are you getting nervous that the show is getting so much buzz before having aired yet?
No, it’s fantastic, and it doesn’t really change the agenda with how we’re doing the show, because we’re all OCD and want it to be as good as it’s going to be, so even if just a handful of people watched it, it wouldn’t affect how we’re approaching the storytelling than if a million people watched it. But it certainly doesn’t suck.

Do you see yourself as a cult TV guy?
No, I just see myself as doing stories I would want to watch. So I guess that makes me culty, because I like culty television, and the goal is doing something that I would watch, first and foremost. And if it’s something that I wouldn’t watch, then I have no business writing it. I think that’s kind of the definition of hackery. Or fuckery, as Amy [Winehouse] would say.

So working with Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen on this series, do you feel like you’re working your way into the Hollywood Gay Mafia?
Uh…I guess so. The Gay Mafia, I get and I don’t get, because it’s really just about rolling up your sleeves and doing the work, as opposed to socializing. I don’t understand the socialization and the networking aspect, because I’d rather just concentrate on the show and doing the best job with the show, not necessarily going to the parties and doing the Gay Mafia thing. And that’s why I like Dan and Bruce – they are about the work, and they are about the show, and that’s the basis of our relationship. And if I can somebody whacked out of that – or whacked off, since it’s the Gay Mafia – then more power to me.

And what was your toy goal for this year’s Con.
Star Wars figures. Old ones. There’s a handful from the 1985 “Power of the Force” series that Kenner put out that had little coins with them. And there’s nine of those that I need to track down, including some Ewoks. -- Alonso Duralde


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Jul 31 2007, 02:42 AM


I think Pushing Daisies is the ultimate safe-sex show. Did that frame the way you looked at the central relationship?
It didn’t occur to me until someone pointed out that it was a great metaphor for internet sex, because so many people are at their keyboards, clacking away with their fingertips, and their fingertips never touch flesh except their own. I like that there is a central metaphor about not having sex.

Lol, Internet sex? that thought still hasn't occured to me.
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