Rogen: Katherine Heigl Is Hypocritical for Calling Knocked Up Sexist

Us Magazine - July 30, 2009 10:57 AM PDT
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Seth Rogen and Knocked Up director Judd Apatow are still miffed over former costar Katherine Heigl knocking the hit blockbuster.

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." (She later said she was "disheartened" her remarks became "the focus of my experience with the movie.")

But Rogen says he doesn't see how Heigl's new comedy, The Ugly Truth, makes women look even better.

"That [movie] looks like it really puts women on a pedestal in a beautiful way," he quipped on Howard Stern's SIRIUS XM radio show on Thursday.

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."

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Apatow figured Heigl was "probably was doing six hours of interviews and kissing everyone's a**, 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 didnt say s***!"

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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."

Apatow said he hasn't spoken to Heigl since her remarks. He doesn't know if he'd make a big deal about it, either.

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"It all depends on how much coffee I have had that day," he said. "If I was fighting ... with someone else about something I may handle it wrong, and if I'm in like total Buddha mood, I'd be like 'I feel sad that she hasn't learned the lesson of her journey yet,'" he said.

After the remark, "[You think] at some point I'll get a call saying 'Sorry, I was tired...' and then the call never comes,'" he said.

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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."


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  • La Chica
    Rogen needs to clean up his language when speaking to publications. I have a difficult time taking him seriously when every other word is an explicative.
    report abuseposted August 1, 2009 3:58 AM PDT
  • Janna F
    Okay I really dont care what she said he's complaining about her when this is like the third time this week he's painting a bad light on an actress. We dont really care what Rogen has to say about all these woman and he just needs to get over it all and stop releasing this stuff in the media. No wonder none of them will date him.
    report abuseposted August 1, 2009 3:21 AM PDT
  • 4me2know
    I like her as an actress but not sure as a person. She always seems to have something bad to say about a movie she does. Does she just sit there and think of ways to put her self down about a movie. Its like nothing is good enough! She needs to get over it and be happy that god gave her the talent to act. Any movie that I have seen her in, I thought where good movies!
    report abuseposted August 1, 2009 12:20 AM PDT
  • Kevin C
    Katherine Heigl needs to stop thinking she is more than she is and shut up.
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 10:23 PM PDT
  • If she really made those comments about a movie that she made, then that really doesn't make any logical sense. If you had a problem with the movie, then why didn't you voice your opinion sooner, or better yet, don't make the movie. That movie made her very popular, and surprisingly, I don't feel that it paints women as shrews.
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 9:53 PM PDT
  • joanna
    dude u have money quit crying u dont see me saying how much i think u suck whoops 2 l8
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 9:05 PM PDT
  • lenor1
    I REALLLY dont like her
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 8:24 PM PDT
  • Gloria
    Amber S...amen to that! Cant stand that chick..
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 8:10 PM PDT
  • MaribelR
    I guess she just wants someone to offer her an Academy Award role like someone from the Holocaust or a survivor of a deathly fire that destroyed he whole face. Yeah, right!! Kat, just take the freaking money and keep your mouth shut! If you accept the roles you're given, then it's YOUR fault if all you do ( in your opinion) is s**t. And freaking GROW UP!
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 7:17 PM PDT
  • Sean
    If you have something negative to say about a project, at least maybe wait several years so everyone can get some perspective ?
    report abuseposted July 31, 2009 7:09 PM PDT
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