The torches have been lit and the villagers are gathered at the gate. If Katherine Heigl knows what's good for her, she'll hire herself a kickass P.R. firm - immediately. Heigl had a brief moment in the sun where it looked like she might be the second coming of romantic comedies. And then she opened her mouth. Now it's de rigueur to slam Katherine - to the point that even nice guy gurus Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow have joined in. Details: Speaking to Vanity Fair in 2007, Heigl famously remarked
that the comedy "paints the women as shrews," while the men look
"lovable." She added, "It was hard for me to love the
movie." But Rogen says he doesn't see how Heigl's new comedy, The Ugly
Truth, makes women look even better. Added Apatow, "I hear there's a scene
where she's wearing underwear with a vibrator in it, so I'd have to see
if that was uplifting for women." Apatow figured Heigl was "probably
was doing six hours of interviews and kissing everyone's ass, and then just got
tired and slipped a little bit" when she made the remarks to Vanity Fair.
Regardless, Rogen said, "I didn't slip and I was doing
f****** interviews all day too ... I didn't say s***!"
Even more baffling, said Apatow, "We never had a
'fight' with Heigl while filming. Seth always says, it doesn't make
any sense [because] she improvised half her s***," Apatow said, adding
that she "could not have been cooler." Rogen said he doesn't feel bad
since Heigl seems to run her mouth and most people, including Grey's Anatomy
staff.
"I gotta say it's not like we're the only people she said some bat **** crazy things about," he said. "That's kind of her bag now."]
Ouch. Rogen and Apatow have finally thrown the gauntlet. In case Heigl's not getting the message, I'm gonna do her a favor and put it in bold now: You need to work some serious damage control, pronto. It's probably already too late - but apologies are in order. Unless you actually want to be relegated to your husband's terrible music videos. In which case, you are totally on track.
[Photo Credit: You can vamp all you want, but nothing's going to save you now.]
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