KNOCKED UP KATHERINE HEIGL MOVIE
KNOCKED UP KATHERINE HEIGL TV

“As we were making the movie, honestly, I was like, ‘I would make a dozen movies with her,'” said Rogen, positing that he was ready to be “whatever the shitty version of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is” since he and Heigl had such a great dynamic. On Monday, Rogen said that as “an egomaniac” he was hurt by Heigl’s criticism, because he had really enjoyed working with her on the film. Recently Heigl told Stern she regrets calling out Apatow and Rogen, saying she just didn’t like how her character came across.

Rogen and writer-director Judd Apatow were not pleased and responded in kind, which left unresolved tension among the group.

KNOCKED UP KATHERINE HEIGL MOVIE

In a 2008 Vanity Fair interview, Heigl called the movie “a little sexist” and criticized her portrayal in the film. She carried some big emotional weights in the film that let her show off that predilection for portraying nervous or high-strung or nagging women this aspect of her characters would resurface time and time again in films like The Ugly Truth, 27 Dresses, and Killers and it wouldn't be as charming or work to as great effect as it did in Knocked Up.Appearing on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show, Seth Rogen weighed in on Katherine Heigl’s comments about their 2007 film Knocked Up. Seeing Heigl as Alison deal with some very modern issues, chief among them balancing a high-profile career with impending motherhood, felt like some fun, new territory for Heigl as an actor. She is obviously a stunner (the contrast with Rogen’s wobbly slacker is crucial), but she strips away the veneer of a thousand facials to find a very credible anxiety in Alison.' In Empire's 2007 review of Knocked Up, there's a brief appraisal of Heigl's performance which sums up (if not a little reductively) how she is actively working with and against her type to deliver something new for her acting range: 'If anything, Katherine Heigl is the performance of the movie - the poster girl facing the grubby business of practical parenting with a partner intent on totting up the naked breasts in Wild Things. She was two years into her work on Grey's Anatomy and she was beginning to work outside the show the magic of Shondaland had graced her with the cachet to get considerably high-profile work, like Judd Apatow's latest unconventional rom-com. Knocked Up arrived at the right time for Heigl. This fight to push past her good looks became a smaller running theme in Heigl's career as she worked to move outside the confines of a casting type (here, the beautiful blonde) and work on meatier or perhaps more challenging films.

Izzie Stevens, the young doctor who was damn good at her job but could become the butt of the joke when her beauty was brought into the conversation. The entirety of 2005 effectively re-branded Heigl for the public when she signed on to Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Knocked Up signaled a new era for the actor until that era quickly fizzled out, but it was a damn good ride while it lasted.

This film came along at a time where it reinforced that she could handle more dramatic or emotionally-charged material with ease while gamely throwing herself into characters that find themselves in uncomfortable or unconventional romantic situations (a hallmark of her peak-'00s work). As she shifted into more adult roles and away from teen fare like Wish Upon A Star and Wuthering Heights, it felt like Knocked Up affected Heigl's career for the better.

KNOCKED UP KATHERINE HEIGL TV

Propelled by her prominence and success in the the instant TV hit Grey's Anatomy, Heigl's career was resuscitated. Remember the halcyon days of Katherine Heigl's burgeoning career as a rom-com star? In the late '00s, Heigl's face was popping up all over the place.

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