Katherine Heigl
Sassy, Sexy And Down for The
Money!
By Rych McCain, International/Nationally Syndicated Entertainment Columnist
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| Katherine Heigl (Photo by Batzdorff for Lionsgate Films) |
Upon meeting her for the first time, one can
easily get the impression that she is the typical girl-next-door type with the
cutie-pie looks and a certain perceived innocence that draws men like a magnet.
Born in Washington, D.C and reared in New Canaan, Connecticut; Katherine Heigl
is anything but typical when it comes to her chosen professions of acting and
producing. She has become one of Hollywood’s main stay attractions at the box
office while savoring the perks of an ever growing fan base. Heigl entered the
biz at nine years-old as a child model. As she became older, opportunities
presented themselves and she transitioned into doing commercials and then TV
and movies. Even though she has a respectable body of TV work; Heigl may best
be known for her six seasons on ABC’s critically acclaimed drama “Grey’s Anatomy” as Dr. Isobel “Izzie”
Stevens for which she won a prime time Emmy® Award and a Golden Globe®
nomination.
Heigl struck pay dirt on the big screen starring in Judd Apatow’s
smash hit comedy “Knocked Up” which
helped her win the “Female Star of the Year” honors at the 2010 ShoWest
Awards. She recently starred in “New Year’s Eve” opposite rock
superstar Jon Bon Jovi. Heigl has a production company with her mom which
excursively produced “The Ugly Truth” that
she starred in and other film projects including including an upcoming TV
series titled “Trending” for The CW
Network. In her latest cinematic big screen offering, Heigl portrays Stephanie
Plum, the star character of Janet Evanovich’s worldwide best-selling
eighteen-book mystery series in the Lionsgate film “One For The Money.” Plum is out of work, on hard times and decides
to work for her cousin’s bail bonds company as a bounty hunter. The
action-comedy takes place on the gritty, rough streets of a New Jersey hood.
As
a bounty hunter, Heigl encounters some very dangerous and unsavory characters.
What is her definition of a real life tough guy? She jokes, “Who knew? I’ve
never really met a tough guy. I guess a tough guy is a …I have no idea!” Since
the Stephanie Plum character is so popular with millions of readers what
strategy did Heigl apply in binging her persona to the screen? She turns
serious, “I was approached about the project when I was doing “The Ugly Truth” with Lakeshore and they
had wanted to turn the book into a movie and I had at that point, not read the
books. So I started reading them and then became obsessed with them and then
got really excited about the idea of bringing it to film. I really loved the
principal role on this because it was so important to me to keep the film
really close to the book because that’s what I fell in love with and that’s
what millions of people have fallen in love with in terms of the “One For The
Money” Stephanie Plum series.”
Even though she has been through the experience many
times before, Heigl still gets a kick out of seeing herself on bus side post
boards, outdoor billboards, construction site posters etc. For “Money” she
exclaims, “It’s always really thrilling. It’s always just this moment of
adrenalin when you see your face and butt, name on a big poster when you drive
down whatever boulevard. So I’m really thrilled, I’m real excited and very
hopeful ‘fingers crossed’ that it works.” In describing her character, Heigl
says, “I just think that there is something about her that is really endearing during
situations where she is in over her head but doesn’t take herself very
seriously and doesn’t take other people too seriously. She has this great
perspective on life that happens to be witty, funny and charming as well. I sort
of like everything about Stephanie. She’s sort of the heroine that you don’t
get a lot of. Sort of the overly perfect heroine that you could never aspire to
be like. Stephanie is an everyday girl that you just like. She’s a
decent person with a big heart and she’s fearless and courageous but
perpetually puts herself in dangerously crazy situations.
©
2012 Rych McCain
Media/Syndication TM
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