It’s rumored around showbiz circles that Katherine Heigl is a huge, huge prat. A pain in the ass, and not liked by her castmates. Now? She’s submitting herself for major awards.
Katherine Heigl was one of the break-out stars of Grey’s Anatomy. For whatever reason, people fell in love with her halfway-Mormon face, emotional line readings and endearingly named characters. Then she starred in Knocked Up, which was a surprise hit, and everything took off. What followed was many, many roles in romantic comedies. Romantic comedies coming out of the walls. Some were small, and some were big.
What else was huge? Heigl’s giant head. Horror stories about her abusing the help on set started leaking, she bashed the film that made her famous, the show-runners on Grey’s Anatomy to the point where they decided to kill off her character. And now? She’s nominated herself for an Emmy.
Nominated. Herself. For an Emmy. For being in like, four episodes this season, I’m all for being about what you love doing but having such a gigantic ego is actually detrimental to progressing in showbiz. What is it not detrimental for? Wearing gigantic hats. So, have fun in a few years, Katherine Heigl, when all you have are gigantic hats to hold onto. When asked about Katherine Heigl submitting herself for an Emmy, co-star Eric Dane said, “For what?”
Awesome.
Comments
Hayley
June 9th, 2010 - 2:33:57 PM
Nobody "nominates themselves" for an Emmy Award. All the cast members (and directors, writers, editors, etc.) on a particular TV show submit their names for consideration for a nomination, as a matter of course. Katherine Heigl hasn't been nominated for anything yet. No nominees have been selected yet. It's the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, as a whole, who select nominees by popular vote, and the results of that vote aren't announced until July.
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TurboFool
June 13th, 2010 - 1:49:43 PM
Uhhh... this is how it works. Now normally one's agent, manager, or production company does it FOR the actor, but in essence the actor DOES have to submit themselves for nomination. There have been huge news stories in the past about major stars who were a shoe-in for nomination being passed up because their representation forgot to submit them in time for the deadline. Katherine Heigl submitting herself (and again, presumably her representation did the heavy lifting, not her personally) is 100% standard operating procedure. Any good PR company worth their salt submits their clients for every last award they could possibly have the slimmest shot at being nominated for. Think what you want about Heigl, and I have no information with which to contradict your claims, but this particular action is NOT signs of her being someone to hate. You could call out any actor in Hollywood for this same thing.
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