FRIEL BLASTS U.K. FOR SOAP OPERA OBSESSION
Actress ANNA FRIEL has slammed her native Britain for holding back her career because the media still associates with her stint on U.K. soap opera BROOKSIDE.
Friel, who has found fame Stateside on hit U.S. series Pushing Daisies, finished her two-year run on Brookside in 1995 - but states the British press still bombard her with questions about the now obsolete series.
The 31-year-old played the role of lesbian Beth Jordache in the show, who killed her abusive father and buried his body in the garden.
She explains, "It was getting to be a joke here (in the U.K.). Even when I was 80 (sic), my epitaph would be, ‘Brookside. Used to be in a TV soap.’ How long ago is it now? Thirteen years.
But Friel insists she doesn’t regret her time on the series: "I’m not embarrassed about any aspect of my life or past. It’s just really boring people talking about the same things. I just think it’s time to let it go.
Otherwise, the last 13 years have been for nothing.
"I do feel it’s a bit of a shame, though, that it had to happen in America rather than here. I wouldn’t say I’ve reinvented myself but, in America, they just take me in a different way."
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