Since 1992 Katherine Heigl has made a name for herself in the movie industry. The former model turned celebrity has both impressed and frustrated those that she is on the set with. However no one can deny that throughout her career she has been the person many fans want to see in romantic comedies and more. Some of Heigls most popular performances have been Greys Anatomy The Ugly Truth and Knocked Up. Therefore it is a surprise to find out that she says It was hard to love Knocked Up calling the film a little sexist.
Katherine Heigls response to Knocked Up
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The buzz around Hollywood is that Heigl is difficult to work with for directors or fellow actors. Therefore it isnt a surprise to learn that she told Vanity Fair in 2008 that she had some personal problems with the movie Knocked Up. The 27 Dresses actor has called the movie a little sexist and expressed that she felt it paints women as shrews humorless and uptight while the men are painted as lovable goofy fun-loving guys. She went on to further express Im playing such a bitch why is she being such a killjoy Why is this how youre portraying women Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience but it was hard for me to love the movie.
In April 2016 Heigl expressed a slightly different view of the movie calling her character judgmental uptight and controlling. It was during this time several years after the movies release and that original statement that she said I liked the movie a lot. I just didnt like me.
What was so sexist about Knocked Up
In the movie Alison Scott Heigl has a one-night stand with Ben Stone Rogen. She is a reporter in Los Angeles and he is an immature slacker who works on a celebrity porn website with his roommates. After their one night of drunken bliss they discover they are very different people and go their separate ways. Their plan is never to see one another again. A few weeks later she discovers she is in fact knocked up. She informs him and ultimately they decide to make it work for the baby.
Throughout their time of trying to be together Alison constantly questions his commitment to it. She doubts that they have what it takes to make it work which is compounded by her sisters unhappy relationship. She calls it quits even though he is claiming that he wants it to work. It all works out for the two but it is a long uphill climb for them that culminates in the birth of their daughter. Knocked Up isnt the first time Heigl criticized a set
Heigl made no secret of the fact that she regretted her role in the movie Knocked Up. However this isnt the only time that Heigl expressed her opinion of a set that she was on and not happy with. Her most public display of her opinion was her withdrawal from an Emmy nomination for Greys Anatomy after Season 4 because she didnt feel that they gave her the material to warrant her nomination. This did not sit well with Shonda Rhimes creator of Greys Anatomy.
There are rumors that Heigl has asked to be paid up to $3 million to be in the movie Valentines Day and that she took legal action against a drugstore chain that used her image in its social media advertising campaign. When all this began Heigl was at the top of her game. Once labeled difficult she ended up at the bottom of the list and it has caused her to suffer with her mental health.
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