Isn't she Mormon?? That's balls playing a Jessop.

In other news, she's a total asshole. I can't even laugh at Knocked Up now because her assholishness ruins it all.

SinisterRouge

I gotta say I agree with her on this. Watching this show this season you can't help but feel the writers hate her. That episode with the deer couldn't have felt for an F.U. towards her if they had tried.

CatherineTrammell

Katherine? Clint Eastwood is on line 2. Something about "shutting your face".

Little Mintz Sunshine

Methinks that in writers' rooms 20 years from now, they're going to be reminiscing about Ms. Heigl the way grizzled staffers talk about Shelly Long or Mary Tyler Moore.

Juancho

You know what's perverted?

In that scene, I can't take my eyes off sexy, sexy Gerard Depardieu!

Now, if only BBT would have appeared at the end; I would be in HEAVEN!!!

SunnydaZe10

That episode with the deer = the only episode of Grays Anatomy I have ever seen.

I must have been especially bored/lonely that night, because I seem to recall having watched the whole thing.

Benny

Someone really wants out of her contract....

TurdBlossom

Didn't Candace B. do this years ago? Maybe K. watched Gandhi and a couple episodes of Murphy Brown and figured that she'd achieved as much and didn't need to keep collecting flimsy statuettes. Plus, until someone redesigns the Emmy to double as an ash tray, what's the point of sacrificing the shelf space?

Fama Est

If she was such an awesome actress, wouldn't she be able to make crappy writing look great? Saying "it's not me sucking, it's the material" is just dumb.

crackbabyjesus

@SinisterRouge: Yeah, I thought this would be about her betraying her Mormon upbringing, but... I guess not.

Also, I don't see the point in fostering hate for actresses. It confuses me and disturbs my principled stance against anyone being "typecast." (I also don't understand how people only see one role when looking at an actor/actress.)

aspiringexpatriate

@Colonel Mustard: Don't you think Heigl is the same? Because she oozes stuck up ho-ness. She's just yet another David Caruso and Duchovny. Let's see if she's making the Knocked Up sequel 10 years from now in a desperate attempt for relevance.

SinisterRouge

Eh. If you want to hate her I'm sure there are reasons, but at least she's consistent. I don't necessarily agree with everything she says, but I admire any actress who doesn't kiss ass instead of holding to her principles.

Except Gwyneth Paltrow. She a stuck-up ho.

Colonel Mustard

bish plz

kellsbells

I remember admiring her and thinking that she was quite ballsy defending TR Knight after the Golden Globes since most interviews get as deep as "I'm just so honored to be here tonight". Now, I have an inexplicable antipathy for her. Perhaps she needs to take her own advice for Washington and Not. Speak. In. Public. Period.

mink

I'm not sure whether she's really principled or really self-involved. I do know a star dissing the writing and production staff of your show is a lousy, low-class thing to do. It's not like they have equal power in the media to answer your claims about the quality of their work...Katherine can mouth off, and they just have to sit there and take it.

Losin_it

@Fama Est: Candace B. had won like eight bajllion years in a row, and literally took herself out of the race, begging, "Please, recognize some of my contemporaries who are doing great work". More Selfless Gesture than Whiny Ho.

Sleepyhead

@Fama Est: You could always just balance a small ash tray between its back and its wings. Then it's a chic elevated ashtray.

aspiringexpatriate

@aspiringexpatriate: I think she's doing all the fostering there.

SinisterRouge

geez, i wonder if i should admit to meeting her 8 years ago at the Roswell convention in L.A. that the Crashdown forum setup. wait, i just did. crap. anyway, she was the only one out of the whole cast who talked to you like she was above you. Shiri Appleby all the way!

DrAftershave

Guh. You know who deserved a major career bump from Grey's? Well, several of the cast, but Sandra fucking Oh is who, but NO! The most conventional-looking cast member amazingly gets all the breaks. And then turns around and acts like a spoiled brat because the show isn't spotlighting her all the time *and* because she has contractual obligations.

Fuck you, Heigl. I hope Izzy finds out she has herpes in a Very Special Episode.

JennaW

@Losin_it: But I don't think she's dissing the writers -- she's been a huge champion of the writing staff. She's dissing the showrunners and their choice of direction for her character. Where you place that on the continuum of obnoxiousness is up to you. Besides which, if they've only given her one leg to run on all season, she's not going to win that Emmy race anyway and she knows it -- she's just upping the ante.

@SinisterRouge: Paltrow is a million times worse than anyone anywhere ever. Yeah, Heigl bites the hand that feeds her, but Paltrow will piss on the hand and then everyone else who touched the hand. Like when she dismissed A View From The Top as "the worst movie ever made". She might not be wrong, but DUDE. That film had a writer, and a director, and a rest of the cast who might not like their work being dismissed so summarily. At least Heigl picks specific people/things to bitch about instead of immediately jumping ship and publicly siding with all the critics just to avoid getting criticized herself.

Colonel Mustard

I'm holding you to the hat eating, Molly, when/if.

TaraIncognita

"an Emmy winning actress who's bumping her way onto the A-List. " Really? Really??. I just don't see that happening.

wilmawonker

Meh, she's just jealous that she didn't get to give the Han Solo Is Not a Loser speech on Grey's -- [io9.com]

bonniegrrl

I do not understand all the hate for this woman. Oh, wait - she has principles, she speaks her mind. . .and. . .and. . .she SMOKES! Up against the wall, bitch.

Diziet_Sma

@JennaW: Sandra fucking Oh indeed! She was the only reason I watched Grey's for as long as I did. After stepping back from the first season and rewatching it, I just can't help but laughing at the absurdity of it all.

aspiringexpatriate

@DrAftershave: funny cause I worked with Shiri on an independent film and she was up on her high horse. Wouldn't talk to anyone that wasn't a producer or director or delivering a message from them.

But yeah, Katie is not making the best name for herself right now.

shananigans

@Diziet_Sma: You forgot "devoid of grace, gratitude and humility".

Little Mintz Sunshine

Well that's one way to get out of that pesky contract Heigl is sure is getting in the way of her Aniston-level movie future.

J.D.Regent

@aspiringexpatriate: I remember Sandra Oh from her days on Arli$$ and I always liked her. I liked her part in Under the Tuscan Sun too.

As to Heigl, there's an old adage about not biting the hand that feeds you. What Hollywood giveth, Hollywood taketh away... and then giveth back as a reality show.

NefariousNewt

@Little Mintz Sunshine: Right. Because a gracious person could've said, "I'm very grateful for the Emmy I received last year. I would like for someone else to have a chance," continued trying to build a solid career and waited until she'd produced or co-produced enough projects to ensure she'd continue working, and then state in interviews that she wants to create more well-rounded roles for women, etc. and tactfully contrast the work she produces with the work that launched her career. But that's okay. It's not like Hollywood is fickle or anything.

Yeah.

robot ninja spy

Deep in the bowels of the writer's shabby office wing, a scrubby dry erase board is being worked over feverishly, nay, rabidly. At the top of the board, written in rushed, capitalized type..."Wayz to killz Izzy". A young assistant strains to record the notes of the sweaty, underweight, ironic t-shirt-attired writers. "What did you say after meat cleaver? Violent ape? Or violent rape?" A menu for sushi is passed. It will be a long, but fruitful night.

gwendemarco

Heigl's a bit tiresome. The nomination process is none of her business. And you know what? Backing out so an actress with what Heigl deems as Grade A material can win isn't munificent, it's presumptuous and ultimately self-serving.

Kinda dumb too. How many actors have been nominated when they've been on crappy shows and the writing is less than great. I mean really.

jasonelias

@Diziet_Sma: I don't think it has to do with her being a woman. Hollywood will chew up and spit out anyone who doesn't play by their "rules." It's an incestuous place -- and the grapevine is pretty extensive. She could find herself frozen out of all sorts of opportunities.

NefariousNewt

@Little Mintz Sunshine: @robot ninja spy: What she said re: the Emmys just reads as a straightforward, not-mincing-words statement to me. I like the straight-up approach. Why do women have to be polite and grateful all the time?

Diziet_Sma

@robot ninja spy: Please see Paul Newman for example.

robot ninja spy

@Diziet_Sma: To me it read as a passive-agressive swipe at the writers for not giving her the kind of material she wanted. It's nothing to do with gender, although I'm aware that many people believe that women should be polite all the time. There's a fine line between being honest and being a tactless asshole. There's even another category somewhere in the middle that's endearingly tactless-- I used to think that's what she was like. But people generally seem to appreciate famous or weathly people of either gender of being grateful and humble because we hear and see enough of the ones with the big egos who don't appreciate the fact that they are fortunate.

robot ninja spy

If she wants to be honest, fine. Let her discuss her heartfelt complaints with the writers/showrunners/whomever face to face, and let it stay there. She doesn't need to humiliate them in public to feed her ego or her agenda. She makes a jerk out of her husband, her co-workers, and even the staff of her successful show, all in public. There's a difference between having honest principles and thinking you can give free rein to your thoughts whenever you feel like it, no matter who gets hurt.

@gwendemarco: You're hilarious.

Losin_it

@SinisterRouge: @aspiringexpatriate: I thought Jessop was (and polygamy for that matter) was FLDS, not Mormon? Am I missing something? Anyway, even if Heigl also had been raised FLDS and not Mormon, I don't think it would be betraying her roots to portray someone of the same religion.

She didn't QUITE piss me off with the other stuff she said before, however, this is just ridiculous. It's Grey's fucking Anatomy, what does she expect? That, and I rented 27 Dresses last weekend because I needed suitable movie to watch with my Grandma and I wanted to wash my eyes and brain out with bleach after watching that crap.

goldengirl11

@gwendemarco: excluding the violent rape part, that was hilarious.

meh on heigl. who cares what she thinks or what she does? i find in this stoned state that only the talented should be scrutinized for their decisions. she isn't talented.

bess marvin, girl detective

@gwendemarco: I'm sure the internets were burning with "Death by Swallowing Own Tongue" and "Vaginal Ebola" and "World's Most Gruesome Deaths" Google searches.
@bess marvin, girl detective: ...Kathy is getting off lucky if that's the worst a bunch of writers she just publicly shit on can come up with.

That said, I cannot wait for the red carpet when we get to hear her try to justify her remarks.

Little Mintz Sunshine

when i read about this heigl girl is when i wish we could swap all american tv actors for brazilian tv actors for the next five, 20, gazillion years.

IamnotStarJones

Hey- I said it the other day and I will say it again- Girl will kick your ass. She is "cleaned-up" white trash. First Hand Knowledge, people. There are some class acts in Hollywood, there are many sleazeballs who are guided by their basest instincts, and there are delusional bitches/dickheads who just don't get it. Sense of entitlement is going to bring her down, big time. Maybe not today, but someday soon.

ciaobellababy

I don't know, the writers and showrunners at Grey's Anatomy this season have pretty much declared war on women, and logic, and I can't get mad at Katherine Heigl for calling them out on it.

samethingwedoeverynightpinky

I thought Sandra Oh was brilliant last season. They gave her so little this time around.

I'm with samethingwedoeverynight..... The writing this season for the women was downright odd.

Also, Amy Madigan. I'm worried about her.

mcbeachy

She is not FLDS, and barely mormon. She played a slutty little girl who tried to pass her dad off as her lover, she does not wear prairie dresses, she smokes and married outside of the faith. We call that jack mormon where I come from. She ain't no Osmond.

SanFranBetsu

Cripes. Why doesn't she just eat a bag of dicks already. This whole bitch routine is so tired. You know what would be 'edgy'? Treating people with respect.

lonely_goatherd

Yeah, Heigl - blame the writers for your very ordinary acting.

pixie-stix

She's an "emasculating ball buster"? An asshole perhaps and definitely an ingrate, but I don't see her cutting off penises.

3cardkitty

Well, I know when I first saw the comment I went, 'Girl wants out of her contract." This is ambition sold as intregity knock off with the stupidity tag still attached.

Seriously she got the credit but what made 27 Dresses come close to working was James Marsden. As with Knocked Up Heigl was adequate and didn't get in the way. Contrast that with Pretty Woman which Roberts, no matter what you think of her, owned.

Grey's Anatomy has both Sandra Oh and Chandra Bailey running rings around her acting wise. And Chandra Bailey did it in the first season when most of what the writers gave her was walk in, bust the young doctors balls, walk out. Heigl never got she was lucky to get the big ole emotional can't hold back the tears scenes she did get.

borregopass

@3cardkitty: Seen her talking about her husband?

raincoaster

@Diziet_Sma: Come on, really? Principles? She thought Knocked Up was sexist so she speaks her mind and says "Hey, this is sexist."

After she's cast in it, after she's made her name on it, after she's made some money on it.

When you sacrifice some personal gain for the sake of an idea you have a principle. When you say that something is wrong, but you do it anyway so that you don't have to sacrifice anything, then you're a hypocrite.

braak

She's marginally talented, at best. Knocked Up was painful to watch with her awkward presence. She should be grateful to have a high-profile gig, when so many more talented actors in hollywood are waiting tables.

pinkteapot

@samethingwedoeverynightpinky: I'm sorry, are we talking about the same show? Declared war on logic this season?

How bout was a crappy show from episode one?

redheadedstepchild

@wilmawonker: indeed. can anyone explain what would make her a-list? she's simply not that talented. oh could mop the floor with her silly blond head.

thatgirlinnewyork

You will not here Meryl Streep discrediting her writers. Instead Meryl would be great no matter what she is given and then all is great. Hollywood is crazy and the crew that supports and tolerate them have my sympathy.

iluv2xist

Give the woman a break and stop spinning this story to make it something it isn't. Maybe all she meant was that her character didn't have any major drama going on this year, like previous years and therefore didn't feel she had any worthy material to submit and the girl wouldn't be saying anything that wasn't true. If anyone on the show should be nominated this year it should be TR for dealing with repeating his intern year or Sandra for being left at the altar and trying to figure out where or who she is.

It doesn't always have to read that it's a slam against the writers. I give the girl credit for saying what she means and sticking up for her friends.

PrudenceY

I agree that Heigl has not been given a lot well written roles, however she does well with what they give her. The season that she fell in love with a heart patient who died before they could get him another one, was especially moving. The background music "Chasing Cars" by "Snow Patrol" still causes me to tear up at times and I am a grown man. This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential information intended solely for acknowledged recipients. If you think you have received this information in error, please reply to the sender and delete all copies from your system. Please note that unauthorized use, disclosure, or further distribution of this information is prohibited by the sender. Note also that we may monitor email directed to or originating from our network. Thank you for your consideration and assistance.|

BerwinOpeth

I think if she keeps this up, she'll soon be appearing in the next episode of The Risque Agency on Digital Funtown.

catch23

Don't understand why she won in the first place. She needs to watch Judi Dench and Helen Mirren and recognize real acting and class. She's just plain tiresome.

annapolitan

If anybody watched Grey's this year they would know she is right. The writing and story lines this past season were horrible. I can't believe that the writers would have us believe that this bunch of professionals could act like a bunch of six year olds. I also think that since the T. R. Knight incident they went to great lengths to work in a gay/lesbian plot line (Callie and Hahn) I think this is just a pathetic attempt to keep their ratings up because they know the quality of their writing is slipping.

jjamz

If anybody watched Grey's this year they would know she is right. The writing and story lines this past season were horrible. I can't believe that the writers would have us believe that this bunch of professionals could act like a bunch of six year olds. I also think that since the T. R. Knight incident they went to great lengths to work in a gay/lesbian plotline (Callie and Hahn) I think this is just a pathetic attempt to keep their ratings up because they know the quality of their writing is slipping.

QuillanGauzer

What's with all the haters? On planet Earth Grey's Anatomy has slowly become downright awful and is completely unwatchable. Katherine Heigl deserves a medal for speaking the truth, and the people pretending to be writers for that show should be sued for fraud.

beachcitybud

Look - if she is so unhappy with the writers then they know what to do. Let her become the great movie star she thinks she is. WRITE HER OUT OF THE SHOW THIS SEASON. Let the deer come back and attack her!!!!!!!!!!!!! **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)

SimonWeasel

Remember when Joey did this on "Friends"? Elevevator shaft!

ShriMockingbird

Look, everyone's entitled to their opinion; I just think the level of vitriol against this woman is really out of whack - you'd think she'd killed someone's dog the way some of you go on. For the record, this is what she actually said about Knocked Up in Vanity Fair:

"It's a little sexist. It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you're portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie."

A lot of you seem to be outraged on Judd Apatow's behalf, as if she'd stabbed him in the back. Do none of you think she may perhaps have talked to him about her concerns before she took on the role? Don't you know that actors and directors talk constantly during filming about how the film/characters will be interpreted by an audience?

Consequently, do you think Judd Apatow was pissed about her comments? No. He actually agreed with her (from the same article):

"I think, for all of us, making this movie was like when you get drunk and spurt out your deepest feelings and then the next day you have drunk remorse about what you said. We all feel very proud and a little embarrassed about what we've revealed about ourselves. The movie is not meant to be romantic, it's meant to be honest. Katie could not have been better, because she went there."

As for Grey's Anatomy, I can't comment, as don't watch the show. But I do remember she was the first one to come out in support of T.R. Knight, and call out that homophobic prick, Isaiah Washington. Knight is quoted in the VF article:

"It's rare to find that kind of honesty in someone, whatever the cost. A lot of us care way too much about what people think, but it's refreshing to have someone who speaks the kind of truth where your mouth just drops. To her, being upfront and straight with people is paramount. There's a real freedom to that that I'm still working on it, but she's already got it."

Finally, in her own words:

"As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy. I was like that in my early 20s, but not anymore. I spent a lot of time not being clear about who I was and what was important to me. It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest. . . I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing."

Now, I get that some of you think this is all cynical, hypocritical bullshit; but, come on - unless you know her personally, like Apatow and Knight - you can't know that it is. I really don't want to insult anyone; but maybe some of you are judging her by your own standards? Or maybe we've been made so cynical by the modern media, that we don't even recognize honesty when we see it anymore?

I could be completely wrong on all counts - after all, I don't know her. All I'm saying is don't be so quick to judge someone you don't even know. (And no, I will not take anyone's 'brother's best friend' who was the assistant casting director on blah blah blah's word for it, either. Some people have an axe to grind for reasons we may never know.)

Diziet_Sma

@Diziet_Sma: Are we judging her by our own standards? Of course, because that's the only way we can judge or size up anything-- against the backdrop of our own personal knowledge/values/experience. And as adults, most of us know that there is a time and place for criticism of our colleagues, whether that criticism is fair or not. It's simply cowardly to attack someone when it's difficult for them to respond in kind. She has a certain media power that she should not use to club anyone around her into submission. There are other, better and fairer ways to get her point across. Honesty itself is the virtue, but using statements, honest or not, to hurt others isn't virtous at all.

And this IS a snark site, after all-- fairness isn't always funny. I doubt anyone visits Defamer to receive a even-handed picture of any celebrity's actions. So even if this bashing of her were not fair, it wouldn't matter much.

Losin_it

@Losin_it: You misunderstand the phrase 'judging by your own standards'; it means you see her as hypocritical and conniving because you are.

The rest of your argument is just silly. Snark is witty and satirical when you pick the right targets for the right reasons; I see this as sexist hot air - there's nothing funny about it.

Diziet_Sma

@Losin_it: re: "there's nothing funny about it" - also, please feel free to point out one 'snarky' comment in this thread that is actually witty and amusing. I must admit, I haven't waded through them all, so I'd appreciate it.

Diziet_Sma

I watched the short film twice and I really don't understand what's up with you people! I was expecting some x-rated, get-the-kids-out-of-the-room, verbal assault by Ms. Heigl. Instead, it was just a spur of the moment answer to a question about her decision to not participate in this year's Emmy Awards. She was honest, saying she felt she had no performed material that she felt was worthy of an Emmy. That is not necessarily dissing Grey's Anatomy's writers...the material just wasn't Emmy worthy. Ninety-nine percent of the material we currently see and hear on television isn't worthy of an Emmy! So what? Do we expect every word that comes out of Izzy's mouth to be in that remaining one percent? That's ridiculous! The Emmy Awards are reserved for the best of the best and Grey's Anatomy just didn't measure up this past season. We know it...she knows it. What's the problem? Judy K. Johnson JUDYGIRL2 "1nicelady" **************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102)

PamelaAntenor

@Diziet_Sma:

I thought this one was pretty funny -
-------------------------------------------------
"You know what's perverted?

In that scene, I can't take my eyes off sexy, sexy Gerard Depardieu!

Now, if only BBT would have appeared at the end; I would be in HEAVEN!!!"
------------------------------------------------
But, then again, I am an arrogant fool . . .

SunnydaZe10

@SunnydaZe10: Yes. And it has nothing to do with kicking Heigl.

Diziet_Sma

@Diziet_Sma: Missy Katherine? Mr. Joshua needs to get on the computer. You need your rest. Puffy eyes aren't a good look for you.

gwendemarco

I don't think she can be her generation's Julia Roberts. Roberts had done the majority of her most loved work by the time she was Heigl's age. Roberts made that stuff seem deceptively simple, it isn't. I don't think Heigl has enough of a fan base to get it started.

jasonelias

Grammar alert: Headline should be " ... stepping on those WHO made her ascent possible."

That is all.

aleslinger