Anna Friel may have hit the big time with her hit US TV show, Pushing Daisies, but the actress has revealed that she vowed never to return to America after the harsh rejection she faced during her first attempt at Hollywood.
At the age of 21 and having achieved considerable success in the UK, Anna went to America and landed a major role in the Broadway production of Closer.
However after her stint on the show, she struggled to get another role and ended up returning to Britain with her tail between her legs.
Anna told The Sun:
She explains: “I was 21 and going to Broadway. That was the time my career could have just gone whoosh!
“But I got disillusioned because any part I went for was always, always between me and another person. Then the director would want me but the producer wouldn’t because I wasn’t a big enough name to carry the film, to put the bums on the seats.
“It kept going round and round and I was, like, ‘I want to get off this roundabout.’
“I had such an awful experience that I just ran back home again, saying, ‘I’m not going there again, it terrifies me.’
“Now I’ve gone back to America and they’ve all said, ‘We were loving you, where did you go?’
“But I really believe it’s happened in just the way it was meant to.
“I’ve now got many years of experience under my belt and it puts me in a great place.”
Pushing Daisies kicks off this Saturday on ITV1 at 9PM!
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