That was my first step into the world of Bryan Fuller, and it was very Bryan Fuller.Īside from “dark and cheery,” how would you explain to someone what a Bryan Fuller show is like? I think what I’d seen of his work before that was Dead Like Me. I would like to say that it’s not morbid, but it is kind of morbid in a cheery way, if that makes any sense. You know, it’s Bryan Fuller, isn’t it? That’s the kind of zone that it exists in, there is a real exploration and awareness of death. It’s an unusual place to begin a career, in this bizarre fantasy world. I bring up Wonderfalls because it’s not the same world as Pushing Daisies, but they feel like cousins. And I suggested my friend Tracie Thoms, who I had gone to Juilliard with, to play Mahandra. And then they were gonna also recast Kerry Washington, who did the pilot. for a test on it, which was one of the first times I’d ever even been to L.A. I was right outta school it was probably the first year I was out of school. So I watched the pilot and they were recasting him and Kerry Washington. I think Adam Scott had originally played the role that I was playing, Jaye’s brother Aaron. Could you tell me a little about meeting Bryan Fuller and how you got involved with that project? I can’t believe it’s been 15 years.īefore you were on Pushing Daisies, you were on a Bryan Fuller show called Wonderfalls. LP: When I got the call about doing this interview, I was really, really excited because I’m so proud of the show and it’s fun to look back on it. KV: I am so happy to talk with you about Pushing Daisies. At the heart of the show was Lee Pace as Ned, and we recently caught up with him to discuss the role.
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It would prove to be a fitting circumstance for the show’s entire two-season run on TV: improbable, full of hope and excitement and a sense that TV could be different in the future, and also full of uncertainty about what that future would be or whether the show would even have one. Looking back, it was a show with an unmistakably queer aesthetic, and yet that undercurrent went largely unspoken at the time.Ģ007 was also the year of the writers’ strike, a labor action that lasted over three months and disrupted the entire industry, including the first season of Pushing Daisies. Pushing Daisies is whimsical in a heady, almost flighty way, but its whimsy was also full of grief and longing.
The story of Ned, a pie-maker with the ability to bring people back from the dead, was so unlike everything else on the network-programming grid.
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It was the perfect, and probably only, moment a series like Pushing Daisies could appear on ABC: a high-concept drama with a brittle, hopeful tone and an unusual look for television, with highly saturated colors and a crisp focus that creates a fairy-tale feeling.
It was 2007, several years before streaming services would explode the number of series that premiere each year, and well into an era where network dramas were looking to experiment with form and style. Pushing Daisies premiered in an exciting, uncertain moment on television. Catch him in Los Angeles on November 13 - tickets are on sale now ! The beloved actor (and tall drink of water) will be sharing more stories about Pushing Daisies, The Hobbit, and the rest of his career when he’s awarded Vulture’s honorary degree at this year’s Vulture Festival. This interview with Lee Pace was originally published in March, 2022.
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