Once upon a time, Katherine Heigl was a blond model. Her job was trying to convince you to abandon your 7-days-of-the-week underwear for the kind she was wearing. She acted occasionally, but modeled more.
Then she was cast in a really great movie where her character was impregnated by a pot-smoking nobody, which got her a lot of attention from moviegoers and Hollywood insiders. She became an A-list celebrity, and someone who was allowed to refuse getting in a limo if it already wasn’t filled with cans of 7UP. Then, one day, she decided to open up the trap door to her brain and out poured a bunch of egocentric comments and half-assed attempts to point out the aforementioned movie’s “sexism,” none of which aligned with someone (such as herself) who’d so recently been allowed to make a name for herself via someone else’s (Judd Apatow) unmistakable brilliance. Everyone quickly turned on her, and called her “ungrateful” and a “traitor,” both of which she was. She continued to act during this difficult time.
But once she made a movie called Life As We Know It (where she played a woman whose best friends die in a car wreck and leave her and some other dude in charge of their kid), she began the journey of rehabilitating her disrespectful and mouthy image. Interviewers were instructed to only ask questions about the upcoming movie, and were urged against asking Heigl anything personal so as to aid her efforts of appearing to have reformed. However, one such interviewer was courageous enough to inquire why it was even necessary for her to undertake such an arduous task…and just as the endeavor required, she answered accordingly. Proof of the momentous exchange is below.
Source: Deadline
