From cinemablend, In Knocked Up Katherine Heigl plays a somewhat uptight, feet on the ground, straight laced girl. The kind of girl who would be absolutely unable to appreciate or even understand a movie like Knocked Up, which tackles the topic of pregnancy from a male perspective. Well if you thought Katherine was great in the part, apparently it wasn’t because she was acting. That’s who she really is.
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair Heigl revealed that she never really “got” Knocked Up and finds the whole thing kind of offensive. She says, “It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I’m playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you’re portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.” The mad irony here is that her reaction to the film paints her as exactly the type of humorless shrew she’s complaining about it portraying her as, thus sort of well, justifying how realistic the film is.
Meanwhile, it also paints men as irresponsible children who dodge responsibility and fear growing up. I don’t hear Seth Rogen whining. Apparently Katherine has never actually been in a long-term relationship, because that’s pretty much the way it is. The things she’s complaining about are exactly why the movie rings so true for just about everyone, unless of course you’re a deluded, humorless shrew. Well, there goes all the good vibes I used to have for Heigl. I’ve just mentally thrown her back in the bin as “that actress from that awful Grey’s Anatomy soap opera.”
9 comments:
Like Napoleon Dynamite, the appeal of this hit movie eludes me. I found the main character to be nothing but annoying. If I wrote the script she would have had an abortion.
Jeez, I really liked this movie. Maybe it helped that I'd recently watched all of Freaks and Geeks and therefore kinda dug Seth Rogan. Or maybe JPX is just a big ol' Grinch.
It had funny moments, and I'm certainly a grinch, but I just thought his character was such a loser and only served to wreck her life (it's how I thought of John Cusack's character in Say Anything as well).
I thought that movie totally sucked as well (though I admittedly have not seen it.)
I went to see this movie with my grandmother. We laughed, but we both had our complaints as well.
How did grandma like the close-up vaginal shot during the birth scene? Uncomfortable...
Yup, a bit awkward.
This movie is obviously forging ahead on the same path and continuing the proud tradition of American Pie, Dodge Ball, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, and whatever that ping-pong movie was called.
Arguably, this all started with Animal House, so I don't see why it's surprising that everyone BUT humorless shrews loved it.
For the record, however, I met Katherine Heigl at the wrap party for 27 Dresses in Providence this summer, and not only is she totally hot in person (a 10 on the Kari Wuhrer Real-Life Scale), but she actually was not stand-offish in any way. She actually chuckled at a few of my jokes, and loved the fact that I crashed their wrap party for the free booze even though I was employed on Brotherhood at the time.
She's just trying to be a "serious actress," which basically just makes her full of shit.
Nice person, though...
Oh handsomestan - do you only exist to make the rest of us bemoan our ordinary lives??
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