Katherine Heigl from Greys Anatomy to 27 Dresses
April 1st, 2008, 6:24 am Hobbies Ideas
The thing that separates Katherine Heigl from being just another Hollywood
blonde is her likability factor. She tries, but not too hard. She%26rsquo;s pretty,
but not too pretty. She makes an effort, but not too much of one. She%26rsquo;s got
good taste %26ndash; the vermilion outfit she wore for the scarlet carpet at the
Oscars made her stand out, not blend in. But it didn%26rsquo;t scream look at me,
I%26rsquo;m it, even though the current heads-of-studio thinking is that she is.
She was neither winning nor presenting an award, yet it was Heigl in her
off-the-shoulder Escada %26ndash; cinched in at the waist and flowing with its
train, a classic, old-fashioned Hollywood look %26ndash; that made the best-dressed
lists.
She always seems to smile freshly. Plenty to be amused about. Two years ago it
was said that she was earning less than her Grey%26rsquo;s Anatomy co-stars. For
Knocked Up, last year%26rsquo;s summer smash directed by the new cool of comedy Judd
Apatow, she received $300,000 for playing a girl who becomes pregnant after
a one-night stand with a pot-bellied slacker. For this spring%26rsquo;s 27 Dresses,
which has already been No 2 in the US, she is reported to have been paid
$6m, and she is being called the new Julia Roberts. Or Meg Ryan or Sandra
Bullock. Meaning there was a gap in the market that needed to be filled with
a new leading lady of romcom for a new generation. She%26rsquo;s a little sniffy and
a little pressured in equal parts about the notion of being called the new
anybody.
I can%26rsquo;t help but feel that%26rsquo;s a little insulting to Julia Roberts, she muses.
There%26rsquo;s not another woman who I look at and think, %26lsquo;That%26rsquo;s it, that%26rsquo;s whose
career I want to have.%26rsquo; I%26rsquo;m just me and trying to do the best I can in every
decision in any given moment, she says with a curious mix of poise and
self-deprecation.
We are in a creamy sunlit room at the Four Seasons hotel, Beverly Hills, the
usual haunt for stellar promotional activity. But right away you know
there%26rsquo;s something unusual about Heigl. She looks at you, tries to work out
where you%26rsquo;re coming from. I start coughing. She sees to it that hot honey
and lemon is ordered to soothe my throat. She doesn%26rsquo;t talk in platitudes.
You can see her brain working hard to try to never do that. Her years of
getting to the top have been tough. In her past there%26rsquo;s a brother who died
after a road accident and a mother who almost died after breast cancer but
survived.
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