Where is Katherine Heigl these days, she's not on the big screen or the much smaller one- so does anyone know- we find ourselves asking what happened to her? What happened to the once promising star who had such a bright future ahead of her?
Last I heard she was a on a Vicks' ZzzQuil.commercial
It seems silly to want to know, and to miss her movie and television presence, but we had gotten so used to seeing her that somehow we kept expecting, and wishing for her to turn up in the next stream of chick flicks.
Once deemed the queen of Romantic Comedies movies, (starring in such hits as Knocked Up, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth) It seems that the Emmy-award winning actress, who used to appear in one movie after the other (the less succesful Killers, Life as We Know It), is struggling to find roles she could be cast in.
The actress who gained critic's attention and serious acting nods from her role in the hit television series Grey's Anatomy as Doctor Isobel Stevens and has a cult following from fans of her stint in Roswell as Isabel Evans, lost most of her major brownie points when she started publicly slamming the quality of the work of the people who wrote her scripts.
Despite her film Knocked Up being both a critical and commercial success, she later slammed Apatow's portrayal of her own character; stating that It was, "a little sexist," she said. "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."
Heigl went on to play similarly uptight characters in the next stream of films that she starred in.
She really bit hard at the hand that fed her, when Katherine pulled out her name from being submitted for an Emmy nomination because she reasoned that she didn't think any of her character's episodes were worthy of the award, her exact words being "I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention," she told Gold Derby. "In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials"
Grey's Anatomy creator, Shonda Rhimes, had said that she hadn't taken any offense from Katherine's actions, as a matter of fact Heigl's contract remained intact and was renewed for yet another season. Katherine then after initially requesting for a lighter schedule, and appearing for a few more episodes stopped showing up altogether and after coming to an agreement with Rhimes, was released from her contract immediately.
Already having gained quite a reputation; words like hypocrite, ungrateful and petty have already been thrown about, but the piece de resistance was Heigl being deemed as someone 'difficult to work with' as well.
A staff from Heigl's 2010 movie " Life as We Know It" claimed that she jeopardised each day of shooting with her wardrobe issues, not showing up on time and, and her over the top complaining, constantly questioning the script and the decisions of everyone else around her.
"I've been told I'm too forthright with opinions," Heigl had told the New York Times before, "Well do they want a fierce woman or milquetoast? Should I be me, or should I pretend to be something I think people want? Pretending seems pretty ridiculous to me... I didn't think that what I was was so bad that I needed to hide it."
No one seems willing to withstand all the drama in exchange for her acting talent, insiders in Tinseltown say "she's not worth it"
Her recent ventures, The Big Wedding, One for the Money were all box-office flops, and each earned her a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress.
HollyscoopTV even claimed that "She has been blacklisted from mainstream Hollywood."
