Anna Torv Wants to Meet Her Fun 'Fringe' Doppelganger

By Brooke Tarnoff Posted Nov 25th 2009 10:39AM

'Fringe' star Anna Torv visited the PopEater offices to discuss her hit FOX series. While we puzzled out the cerebral calisthenics that 'Fringe' fans go through every week, Anna showed us the forehead wrinkle she's gained since taking on the super-intense role, explained how she avoided 'Dawson's Creek' fever in the years before meeting co-star Josh Jackson - and what might be in store for their characters, romantically speaking. Watch the video below and check out Part 1 of the interview here.

On her character, Olivia Dunham: "I think, for her to become this warm, motherly, generous, open person would be a very interesting place for her to go to. And so I wondered if her role is not to become the lover of young Peter, but to in fact become this mother to these two lost boys. And I do think that they're two lost boys."

On whether she was a fan of Joshua Jackson: "'Dawson's Creek' came on when I was in drama school, so it wasn't what we were watching! We were so high-brow, it makes me sick the way we were... And then you get out and you're like, 'I'll do the Cup-O-Soup commercial!' But when you're studying there, you don't watch TV."

On being a temporary New Yorker: "I hope I get another chance to live here, because I really didn't get to do all the things that I wanted to do. I think New York's a city that you need to really investigate. You want it to get under your skin. I was in shock last year too, it was my first taste of American television and I had no idea that it was going to be such hard work."

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Thursday 26 November

By wildman436

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Donny was very good and improved constantly, and worked very hard throughout the show. He already has enough stardom!!! Mia and Dimitri were awesome throughout and definitely were the most talented in my opinion!!!

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