Katherine Heigl addressed her image problems head-on, while promoting her new film. Though I’ve picked on Heigl for “biting the hand that feeds her,” I think her response shows that she’s on the right track. The truth is that most of what she said in the press was correct. It all started with Grey’s Anatomy, when Isaiah Washington called T.R. Knight a faggot on set, and the creators brushed it aside, leaving Knight to handle the media bedlam on his own. Heigl bashed both the show and Washington, in defense of her best friend. She scored major points with me for doing so, and then quickly squandered my support when she publicly discussed her contract negotiation with Grey’s Anatomy, saying that she called it off because “she wasn’t getting the respect she deserved.” Everyone knows that you don’t publicly discuss your contract — it’s unprofessional. To make matters worse, she took herself out of the Emmys, because she didn’t feel that the writing was good enough to warrant an award. Again, it’s not the best idea to insult your writers, especially since writer fatigue is common on a long-running show, and an actor can’t expect great material for five seasons straight. She also called Knocked-Up ” sexist,” which didn’t sit well with Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow, who later bashed her on Howard Stern. Personally, I thought the movie was sexist, but it’s not exactly a press-friendly statement. So here’s the moral of the Katherine Heigl story — sometimes she’s right and sometimes she’s not. If the girl could just reign it in a little, instead of becoming a robot that churns out the stereotypical answers in interviews (which I predict we will start to see), she’ll be just fine. Watch her discuss the issue below.
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