Anna Friel on Women’s Health
Excerpts from the Women’s Health interview with Anna Friel…
Your American accent on the show is flawless.
Thanks. In my car on the way to work, I speak with an American accent and keep it the whole day, even during personal phone calls. I have a voice coach who gives me 30 notes [on how to improve] every day! I wanted the character to have a lot of air in her voice and to be very wide-eyed. I based it a lot on my daughter, Gracie. I wanted my character to be childlike.
It must be fun to do a show your 2-year-old can watch!
Those bright visuals really get her. She likes to come to the set because they’ve built a sweet shop that looks like something from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She takes sweets from all the jars. Her new thing is to say to me “Cut, Mummy! Cut!”
You and your partner, actor David Thewlis, are raising Gracie but aren’t hitched. Suspicious of marriage?
Oh no, I always thought I was quite conventional–that I’d get engaged, marry, have a child–but it’s all gone higgledy-piggledy. I think it’s nice we’ve stayed together for the right reasons and not some tangled mess. And he’s never asked, really! No, I’m always saying I don’t need to. I think we’ll wait to do it when Gracie can actually stand up at the wedding and be a part of it.
What do you guys do when you’re not working?
We love the mountains and the sea, and we love to watch movies. People hate watching them with us because we talk and analyze all the way through!
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