The Huff Over Heigl
By now everyone has heard about this. Katherine Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens on “Grey’s,” decided not to submit her name for the Daytime Emmy’s this year, even though she won for outstanding supporting actress last year. Her reasoning? With the strike, she didn’t feel the writers gave her enough Emmy winning material, and she didn’t want to take the opportunity away from someone who was given the material.
Well now the writers and producers are rumored to be furious with her. There are also rumors going around again that this all goes back to her wanting out of her contract with the show so she can pursue a movie career. This rumor has been going around for over a year now.
I don’t know if Katherine Heigl said this on purpose hoping to get out of her contract or not, but I really don’t think she was wrong in her reasoning. I mean let’s be honest here, what did Izzie do this entire season? Pretty much a big fat nothing. She saved a deer’s life, she tortured a man to try and win a contest and she put up with her annoying and complaining students. It wasn’t until the last two episodes she snapped out of the pit she dug and put herself in and finally took charge of things and well, became Izzie again. So on that front I don’t fault her for her reasoning. On the other hand, I guess I can see how the show would see it as a slap to them for a star to call them out like that, but they are the ones that gave her that material to work with.
Dustin – I read that the reason Katherine had so little material was because the show was trying to be flexible around her movie shooting schedule, not just because of the strike. Perhaps they feel she is being ungrateful then?
06.15.2008 at 12:46 pm
Yeah if that was the case, then it does sound like she’s being ungrateful. I still would like to think the best about her and hope that she didn’t mean to come off sounding that way. Personally I get tired of seeing the same person get the same award year after year, so I thought it was nice what she did (if she did it to be nice)
06.15.2008 at 1:39 pm
She really is sounding ungrateful especially since this show re-launched her career. Her mouth is really going to get her in trouble one of these days I really did not like how she kept bringing up the Issiah Washington sitution when that was going on.
06.15.2008 at 4:48 pm
I agree Sha. I don’t think what Isaiah Washington said or did was right by any means but it wasn’t any of her business. I understand that she is close friend with TR Knight but it should have only been him, Isaiah, and Patrick Dempsey to talk publicly about it if they wanted to as it involved them. I appreciate people that are outspoken and want to be heard but not when they don’t mind their own business. The other castmembers, I’m sure, were disgusted by what happened but they knew to keep quiet at least.
06.16.2008 at 10:21 am