Could there be a worse career move for an actress than telling the truth? Mark Harris of Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the strange case of loquacious Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl and is wondering this very question.
Heigl, 29, who won an Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy Award last fall for Grey's Anatomy, is not among this year's nominees. We all know why.
But given the controversy caused by her decision to exclude herself from contention this time around, you'd think she had beaten up Dakota Fanning.
This was hardly the first time that Katherine Heigl's outspokenness has burned bridges or landed her in the middle of some kind of public squabbling.
Her contract negotiations with ABC went public, she chided Judd Apatow over Knocked Up, and then there was the whole Isaiah Washington situation.
Plenty of people have said she should keep her mouth shut, be more modest, go to work, like it, and act like basically every other celebrity.
But do we really want our stars to be that boring? Is her honesty really such a terrible thing? Is Heigl's uniquely outspoken nature a drawback?
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July 23rd, 2008 9:21 AM
So far, I have agreed with Heigl, almost every single time, she has said her opinion out loud. I think she is really cool! ..and one of the most talented actresses on Grey's.
July 23rd, 2008 10:36 AM
Serously!!!!!!!
July 23rd, 2008 10:38 AM
It's not that Heigl took her name off the Emmy list, it's what she said after (both on video and in a statement and both equally ungrateful) It's what she said about her wages, it's how she drug her friend TR Knight around like a rag doll after the Good Medicine event because he was taking to long with the fans. It's what she said and then retracted about the characterization of women in the Comedy Knocked Up (which clearly women who saw it KNEW it was a stereotype of women and NOT meant to be anything set upon them, so we didn't need that explanation) It's her telling fans (who enjoyed the George/Izzie parings) in Vanity Fair that it was nothing more than a "ratings ploy" I like Heigl, I do..but honestly, she got some kudo's and pate on the back for defending TR Knight when Isaiah Washington said his gay slur, and I believe it went to her head. Though I don't think she should stay quiet, not everything needs to be commented on so harshly in attempt to have yet more people tell her how wonderfully outspoken she is. Sometimes (as lately) her words are "just rude" period.
July 23rd, 2008 11:05 AM
Ok. Not to be mean or anything, but SERIOUSLY? I'm TIRED of Katherine right now! I mean, let's get some NEW news. Chandra and Sandra are Emmy nominees! Seriously people, is there anything else going on in the world besides this, or not? Again, not to be mean, just trying to tell it like I'm feeling.
July 23rd, 2008 11:31 AM
I think Katherine Heigl really need to think before speaking and or acting on her thoughts. In her line of work, as I am sure she knows, she is put under a microscope, in that everything she does & say will be analyzed to the last drop. I think she really needs to work on that, and she will be more respected publicly. At the rate she has been expressing herself, and with these recent comments about the emmy's, she is sure to abuse her career both publicly and professionally.
July 23rd, 2008 1:36 PM
As a fellow performer (in theater) and a woman, I admire and support Heigl speaking her mind. There's a tremendous amount of pressures on performers to be so many things at once, and it can leave you feeling unlike yourself. I'm glad to know Heigl is a real person with brains and opinions, and not afraid to use either.
July 23rd, 2008 1:41 PM
Iloveder, I agree with you in the sense of this whole situation being talked about every five minutes. We get it already, she snubbed the writers, people are mad, and now there are rumors that she is to be killed off. Enough already!
However, this writer is right. Would it have been better if she'd said that she was an amazing actress and of course she should get an Emmy? Would it be better if we had just another stupid actress who doesn't give a crap about anything? I really like the fact that Katherine speaks her mind. Sometimes the way things are worded may not be in favor, but she does say what she thinks. Who knows, maybe one of those "actresses" she wanted to give a fair shot to was Ellen Pompeo--who has been really good as Meredith--and of course, we know Ellen was snubbed of that.
Love her or hate her, but everyone has a right to their opinions and while some people might not agree with mine, some people are not going to agree with Katherine, and it looks like she's not going to care.
July 23rd, 2008 8:15 PM
I'm sorry but i'm sick of hearing about this. It's been talked about so much I wish we can just move on and focus on whats going to happen in season 5 of grey's
July 23rd, 2008 10:00 PM
I've always liked how forthright she was (about Knocked Up and Washington) but this recent very honest bash irks me more. It's not that it's not true because I think she hasn't gotten a great storyline this year but with the writer's strike and the demands to have Mer/Der get back together, I feel like Grey's did a pretty great job making the season coherent.
Ah well, Grey's will go on and she will go on, no matter what happens. (I always thought she should've been written off after Season 2 just because it never made sense to me that they would let her stay after what she did.)
July 23rd, 2008 10:01 PM
And I mean what Izzie did, cutting the Lvad wire- not Heigl.