How Katherine Heigl sank her career in ten steps
The endearing Izzy from 'Grey's Anatomy' was destined to be a star until she started behaving like one. HER new series of hers, 'Doubt,' may get her back on track.
Who does not have a friend who spends her life complaining about things? Katherine Heigl's pathological negativity has ended up sinking what 10 years ago was the most promising career in Hollywood.
She had the whole world in love with her, but the actress has screwed up so much that no one wants to work with her today. The line between "knowing what you want and not being afraid to say it" and "being a horrible person" should be very clear, but not to Katherine.
Heigl is not the only difficult actress in Hollywood, but if so many stories have emerged about how unpleasant it is to work with her, it is because the situation is untenable. As one producer confessed:
"We had a perfect role for her, but in the end, we decided it wasn't worth it." How has she gone from top to bottom (multiple times) in just a decade?
2008: She badmouthed her first big movie role
While promoting 27 Dresses, for some reason Katherine ended up criticizing her previous project, Embarrassing Mess, for being too sexist.
"It portrays the women as snobby, humorless harpies," the actress complained, "while the men come off as adorable, goofy, and funny. I had a bit of a hard time playing such a killjoy bitch. It's hard for me to enjoy that movie.".
Her arguments are not without reason, but around them hovers the feeling that when in doubt, she could have remained silent. That's one of the main problems with her public image: she not only thinks horrible things, but she blurts them out without anyone asking. This brings us to the next episode.
2008: Criticized the Grey's Anatomy scripts
Katherine Heigl won an Emmy for the series that made her famous, specifically thanks to the third season episode in which Izzie Stevens is reunited with her daughter whom she gave up for adoption years ago.
A year later, the actress decided not to register to compete again for the nomination and the award. The fee, of $60,000, is put in by the artist or the television network, and many opt out if they think they don't have a chance.
The vast majority withdraw from the competition in silence and without giving it more importance. She does not.
She preferred to clarify publicly that she considered that the material she had been given during the fourth season was not good enough to be considered for the Emmys, "in the interest of maintaining the integrity of the organization, I withdraw my name from the competition."
Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes explained that the reason Izzie had less weight in the fourth season was that Heigl asked for a shorter day so she could spend more time on her film career. Second round, second loss.
2008: He drove everyone crazy who worked on 27 dresses
Her mother, Nancy, has been her manager since Katherine started working on My Father...what a date!. According to the actress, her mother "has not come to this city to make friends", but the only thing she has achieved is to make enemies and harass everyone who has crossed her path.
"I have never experienced anything like Nancy Heigl. Everything seems wrong to her, everything is solved with insults, and according to her everyone is a liar," confessed a publicist.
According to another source, Katherine's demands during the promotion of 27 dresses were impossible to satisfy: presidential suites in the best hotels, constant wardrobe changes, star treatment for her mother, and systematic return of all the food that was brought to her room. "Not even the biggest stars have that attitude or those demands," the publicist clarified.
2009: She complained about the shooting schedules of Grey's Anatomy
In a television interview with David Letterman to promote Reality, Heigl explained that she had just returned to Grey's Anatomy for season six. Not only was this a spoiler (by the end of her fifth her character seemed to have died), but she kept talking, once again, without anyone asking her.
"Last Wednesday we went back to shooting, and I'm going to tell you this because I hope it embarrasses you, in a 17-hour workday, which I consider cruel." The series team published a statement the following day in which they clarified that if all the workers had to spend so many hours filming it was to adapt to Heigl's schedule, that she was very busy filming Killers.
2010: "She is desperately difficult to work with"
"He doesn't like anything, sometimes he doesn't leave his dressing room, he demands daily rewrites of the script, he wants to have the last word to choose the cast of the film.
Even negotiating the contract is a problem with Katherine," complained a worker from Como Life itself. That same year, Heigl asked for $3 million for 6 days of shooting on Valentine's Stories, a figure that the producers laughed at when they offered her the role of Julia Roberts
If you are going to pay an exorbitant amount, at least it is to a real star. Katherine Heigl chained several flops and Hollywood was delighted to get rid of her. Because the stars can be horrible, but as long as they attract people to the movies. Roberts, with her fame as a difficult actress, is at least a guarantee of success and, unlike Heigl, she has friends in the industry (like Denzel Washington, George Clooney or Richard Gere).
2011: She left Grey's Anatomy and forgot to tell her boss
During the sixth season of the series, Izzie Stevens disappeared almost overnight. She was supposed to be back for the home stretch, but Heigl just didn't show up on set.
The team had to improvise such a humorous resource as dyeing Lexie Gray blonde so that Alex Karev would think she was Izzie and say goodbye to her. It was the only way to close that love story, because of a shoot full of hate.
Shonda Rhimes has insinuated that her lawyers advise her not to talk about Katherine Heigl, but she has had no problem staying comfortable when asked: "I don't take shit from nasty people, I don't have time for that."
2011: He pissed off Sofia Vergara
During the filming of Stories at the end of the year, Heigl did not stop complaining about the cold that she had, until her partner, SofÃa Vergara, shut her mouth: "You should be grateful to have a job."
Katherine with her mother Nancy the woman nobody wants to deal with in Hollywood.
2012: Sank the romantic comedy
It may not have done it alone (Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker also contributed), but the rom-com genre died from being saturated with macho storylines, humiliating potential viewers of it.
It is admirable that Heigl denounced the sexism of Embarrassing Mess if she considered it so, what is ridiculous is that she would then star in The Ugly Reality or The Bounty Hunter.
In them, she played supposedly self-confident and independent women who ended up desperately chasing a man to marry them. And this time there are no excuses: they were all produced by Katherine.
2014: She assured me that she has no money
To try to turn around her dilapidated career, Katherine Heigl took refuge in independent cinema. Jenny's Wedding was such a small project that she ran out of money for post-production after the shooting.
So Katherine started a campaign to ask for donations to raise the remaining $150,000 to finish the film. Faced with the collective reaction of "If you care so much, pay for it yourself", the actress explained that she does not have as much money as she might seem.
Four years earlier, she was making $10 million per movie, so besides being loudmouthed, it seems Heigl is pretty clumsy managing her savings. The initiative raised $96,000, and Jenny's Wedding got released. It was destroyed by critics.
2016: Still unapologetic
"I'm not a bad person, I'm not nasty to people. I'm professional." This is how Heigl defended herself from the accusations that she has been dragging on for years. It's hard to believe. There is only one thing worse than treating people badly, and that is not being aware that you are doing it. She considers that she is the victim of all this:
"I remember shooting a small independent film, I was afraid to say anything. They gave me shoes that were too small for me, and I was afraid to tell the wardrobe team because I did not want them to think too that I'm difficult. Then I realized it didn't make sense."
The fact that Katherine didn't consider asking for another pair of shoes politely shows how wrong she is. No one wants to work with her, and for the past year, she's only managed to appear in commercials for sleeping pills and cat food.
Next year she premieres a new series, Doubt, and it may be her last chance to win back that audience that a decade ago was willing to make her a star. If she manages to succeed again, she can be as bad a person as she wants. If she fails again, Hollywood will do the same thing we do with those friends who don't like everything: stop calling her.
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