Katherine Heigl News: Is It Too Late Now for the Actress to Say Sorry?
Katherine Heigl must be singing in her head a line from Justin Bieber's song that goes "Is it too late now to say sorry?" after saying that she regrets taking a swipe at her own movie "Knocked Up" shown eight years ago. Heigl said that the remark she made on the movie back then was a dumb move on her part.
It can be recalled that Heigl was heavily criticized, ironically, after criticizing her upcoming Rated-R comedy back then days before it hit the theaters. According to Heigl, she made the statement as she felt obligated to respond to the question of the Vanity Fair reporter who tried to feel her pulse on allegations that the movie was somewhat sexist.
"It was a little sexist… 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," she told Vanity Fair at that time.
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However, Heigl eventually clarified her statement and told People magazine that filming the movie was the best part of her acting career, and her intention for saying so was to encourage female viewers to look at the bigger picture and disregard the aspect of the movie that supposedly made it a sexist.
Despite the clarification and the remorse, Heigl is yet to personally apologize to her "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow and co-star Seth Rogen. In an interview with "The Howard Stern" show as reported by E! News, Heigl revealed that the most she did was to apologize publicly, which she regrets to this day.
"… I feel embarrassed. I don't want it to feel insincere on any level," she told host Howard Stern, who reminded the actress that the rule in Hollywood is not to criticize a movie that is yet to be shown.
Is too late now for Heigl to say sorry?
