CoverAwards' Exclusive: Editor in Chief Margi Conklin says "This is One of My Favorite Ever Page Six Magazine Shoots"

Page Six Magazine Editor Margi Conklin tells CoverAwards exclusively, “This is one of my favorite ever Page Six Magazine shoots. Anna Friel was photographed at Union Station in Los Angeles by Sheryl Nields, and my Fashion Editor Kelley Culp knocked it out of the park using 40s-style hats, coats and dresses for a look that’s reminiscent of the movie Brief Encounter.

Anna is actually a fan of old Hollywood, and her trailer on the set of Pushing Daisies is packed full of glossy hardback books on silver screen actresses and Bond girls, along with DVDs of movies like Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, The Awful Truth and Sweet Charity.”

“I like all the old-school ones,” she told Page Six Magazine. “Natalie Wood, Edie Sedgwick, Audrey Hepburn.”

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After giving up on the U.S.A once before, Pushing Daises star Anna Friel shares her thoughts with this week’s Page Six Magazine about finally having her breakthrough moment on our shores.  So how does an actress best known in Britain for kissing another girl create a stir in America?  Through channeling old Hollywood.

On being told it would be difficult for her to have children:

“Knowing that, there was one time that we were perhaps not as careful as we should have been, and bang-o– I was pregnant.  I thought, well, so much for ‘it’s going to be difficult.’ I was 28, and it was the best thing ever.”

On her relationship with partner David Thewlis:

“He thinks it’s something really romantic, us never having gotten married. It doesn’t mean we’re not committed, but we don’t need to change anything because things are quite good. Plus we have a child, which is the most bonded thing you can have, anyway.”

On why she’ll never give in to Hollywood’s stick-thin mold:

“I’m not going to come to L.A. and be anorexic.  I’ve still got shape.  I eat healthily because that’s how I was brought up – I never reach for Cocoa Puffs in the morning.”

On her onscreen kiss with a woman, in 1993, on the English soap Brookside:

“It caused a major uproar because it was the first ever lesbian kiss on [prime-time] television. It was quite risky then, but it sounds funny now to think what a shock it caused.  It wasn’t even this huge, big snog…though maybe tongues were slipped.”

On her favorite American actresses:

“I like all the old-school ones… Natalie Wood, Edie Sedgewick, Audrey Hepburn.”

For more on Anna Friel, check out this week’s issue of Page Six Magazine, free inside the Sunday edition of the New York Post and online on Monday at here.  For a preview of this week’s issue, click here.