{"id":1995,"date":"2001-06-18T19:16:44","date_gmt":"2001-06-18T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T09:45:31","slug":"nz-new-idea-mag-article-on-katherine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/06\/nz-new-idea-mag-article-on-katherine\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ New Idea mag article on Katherine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Di for this :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why Katherine is a hot babe (By Debra L. Wallace)<\/p>\n<p>What does a hot alien babe do on her days off? We ask Roswell star<br \/>\nKatherine Heigl<\/p>\n<p>Although she has been called one of the sexiest people in the universe by<br \/>\nmajor American magazines, Roswell star Katherine Heigl maintains a good<br \/>\nsense of humour about these accolades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know how my family feels about me being called that (one of<br \/>\nuniverse&#8217;s ho babes),&#8217; she joked, &#8216;but, I&#8217;ll buy it! Why not?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On a more serious note,&#8217; she says, &#8216;I definitely don&#8217;t wake up in the<br \/>\nmorning and look in the mirror and think &#8220;I&#8217;m hot&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m stunning&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s really on my mind is: &#8220;All right, it&#8217;s another day and I&#8217;m just me&#8221;,<br \/>\nKatherine says earnestly during a recent Manhattan bash in celebration of<br \/>\nher hit teenagers-from-space TV drama.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; great news, Roswell fans! &#8211; the hit show will be back for a third<br \/>\nseason. When the second series finale was filmed, the show&#8217;s fate was<br \/>\nuncertain, but just as it was aired here last week, the news broke that the<br \/>\nshow had new owners and another reprieve from the axe.<\/p>\n<p>The show had also nearly been canned after its first series &#8211; until outraged<br \/>\nfans bombarded the network with thousands of Tabasco sauce (an alien<br \/>\nfavourite), and convinced the bosses to save it.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine is level-headed about her celebrity. &#8216;The best way to approach me<br \/>\nis to just come up and talk to me and be cool. That&#8217;s all I can ask for.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A child model who turned to acting in her teens, Katherine made her feature<br \/>\ndebut in That Night, starring Juliette Lewis. She instantly knew she had<br \/>\nfound her path in life. &#8216;My first film was an amazing experience, and I<br \/>\nknew that&#8217;s what I wanted to do.&#8217; Between film projects, Katherine<br \/>\ngraduated high school early and moved from Connecticut to LA, hoping to act<br \/>\nfull-time.<\/p>\n<p>Her ever-growing CV includes movies with Gerard Depardieu (My Father the<br \/>\nHero), and Steven Seagal (Under Siege 2), plus Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s King of<br \/>\nthe Hill, The Bride of Chuck, tele-film The Tempest, Prince Valiant,<br \/>\nStand-Ins, and Wish Upon A Star with Peter Fonda. And she will soon be seen<br \/>\nin the movies Valentine, and 100 Girls.<\/p>\n<p>But her main love for now is playing Isabel on Roswell. &#8216;The show is just<br \/>\nso much fun. The hours can be really long, but it&#8217;s an opportunity to do<br \/>\nwhat I love every day for nine months. For me, it&#8217;s about having fun with<br \/>\nit and always being challenged and learning your craft. I feel so lucky<br \/>\nbecause I really love what I do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So what is it like to play an extraterrestrial?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s great,&#8217; she says. &#8216;Since she is half human I can draw on some of my<br \/>\nlife experience, but for the alien side there is no real experience to draw<br \/>\non so I can make things up as I go along.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning, Roswell viewers thought the beautiful alien Isabel Evans<br \/>\nwas mean and tough, but Katherine never saw her screen alter ego in that<br \/>\nway. &#8216;She is very guarded. She&#8217;s very loyal and devoted to Max and<br \/>\nMichael. She loves being human, loves her parents and normal teenage stuff<br \/>\nlike going to high school and going to the prom.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In its second season, the show focussed more heavily on the science fiction<br \/>\naspects and delving into the mythology of the alien teens, whose powers are<br \/>\ngrowing stronger.<\/p>\n<p>While Katherine has never been to New Zealand, she was thrilled to discover<br \/>\nthat Roswell is a big hit here. She says it must be the universal aspects<br \/>\nof the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;What appeals to me about the show is that it ties in day-to-day teenage<br \/>\nlife, with some extraordinary story plots and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Creating the mythology that goes along with these characters and<br \/>\nunderstanding their powers kind of appeals to young and old all over the<br \/>\nworld.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Before Roswell, Katherine says she had neve4r been interested in sci-fi.<br \/>\nShe never watched Star Trek or the X-Files or sought out science fiction<br \/>\nmovies. &#8216;But once I became involved in the show it created a whole other<br \/>\nworld to consider. I love the mythology of it,&#8217; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Away from Roswell, Katherine enjoys the simple pleasures in life &#8211; listening<br \/>\nto David Gray&#8217;s new folksy CD, reading (most recently Memoirs of a Geisha,<br \/>\nby Arthur S. Golden, and hanging out with her friends.<\/p>\n<p>And she likes dating to be something really casual, like burgers and milk<br \/>\nshakes at a cool diner and just talking and getting to know each other.<br \/>\nBut, the burgers may have to be the healthy vege kind. &#8216;As far as eating<br \/>\ngoes I have a lot of restrictions so I don&#8217;t eat a lot of dairy or wheat. I<br \/>\ntry to keep it very organic and very natural. But every now and then when I<br \/>\neat out I have a steak. I once ate 12 ounces of steak and a rack of<br \/>\nbaby-back ribs. I don&#8217;t know how to justify it except to say I am only<br \/>\nhuman.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The stunning actress says that she knows she is a role model for young girls<br \/>\nwho love Roswell and she feels a responsibility for them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The biggest thing I want all young women to know about themselves and about<br \/>\nlife is that they are unique and they are truly beautiful no matter what,&#8217;<br \/>\nshe says.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the best advice she has ever heard that she&#8217;d like to pass on to<br \/>\nher fans?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s one of Shakespeare&#8217;s most famous lines and I truly believe it with all<br \/>\nmy heart &#8211; &#8216;To thine own self be true.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Di for this :) Why Katherine is a hot babe (By Debra L. 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