Thanks to ALieN ISaBeL for sending this in!<\/p>\n
From The Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Parade” magazine.<\/p>\n
Sunday, February 13, 2000<\/p>\n
Brady’s Bits<\/p>\n
Katherine doesn’t model anymore. “I began so young,” she said. “It was just
\nsomething I did as a child. But it helped with acting, because I’m
\nconditioned to the camera and lights.” She just finished a new movie. “It’s a
\ncute independent film called 100 Girls, about a college boy who meets a girl
\nin an elevator during a blackout and afterward tries to find her, even though
\nhe doesn’t know what she looks like.” I asked Katherine, who lives in L.A.,
\nif she’s return East to work onstage. “I used to be terrified of a live
\naudience,” she said, “but now I could handle it. Not broadway though. Maybe
\noff-Broadway. Or off-off to start.” Despite her roles in films, she has
\nlittle training. “My dad always wanted me to study. It actually would’ve been
\ngood for me. But not singing. Dance, sure. I loved modern dance. I was never
\nan athlete in high school because, with modeling and acting, I couldn’t be on
\na team.” And does she get mail from people convinced “aliens” are in fact
\nliving on earth? “Maybe the show gets some,” she said, “but they don’t show
\nit to me.”<\/p>\nIn Step With Katherine Heigl
\nby James Brady<\/p>\nWill Katherine Heigl of New Canaan, Conn, be our new “favorite alien”? She
\nplays one on TV in Roswell. Her dream? Not Mars or Venus but a year in Paris.<\/p>\nRemember that famous “alien space-ship” some people still believe actually
\nlanded in 1947 near Roswell, N.M., about 90 miles from the Texas line? The
\nfeds deny all. That hasn’t stopped Roswell, the WB network’s drama series,
\nfrom exploring the possibility of aliens among us.<\/p>\nWhich is why I was interviewing Katherine Heigl, who plays one of the three
\nteenage aliens – the beautiful female one, of course – and comes not from
\nouter space but from the moneyed suburb of New Canaan, Conn. How is the
\nseries doing?<\/p>\n“It seems to be going well with the critics and audience,” said Katherine.
\n“They bought a full season of 22 episodes. But I don’t track the ratings
\nclosely.” How is the schedule? “We have some long days that start at 6 a.m.
\nand go till 9 p.m,” she said. “And each episode has a new director. I’m from
\nfilm, so I’m used to one director for the entire film.” Had she ever visited
\nRoswell? “We actually film at Paramount and at desert-looking locations near
\nL.A.,” Katherine said.<\/p>\nMs. Heigl just turned 21 but has been working since she was 9, starting with
\nmodeling, then commercials, which led to films. At 16, she played G\ufffdrard
\nDepardieu’s daughter in My Father, the Hero. The following year, she played
\nSteven Seagal’s niece in Under Siege 2. And then came the TV role of Peter
\nFonda’s daughter in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Somehow she managed to
\ngraduate from high school. No college?<\/p>\n“Initially, my dream was to go to college,” said Katherine. “Then my career
\nwas going so well, and it was time to move to L.A. I’d like to take
\nnonmatriculating courses. My mom got me a Shakespeare course on tape, so I’m
\nstudying that.”<\/p>\nMs. Heigl is a pretty savvy kid who seems to learn as she goes along. “On the
\nSteven Seagal movie, I learned about martial arts from his prot\ufffdg\ufffds,” she
\nsaid. “I’ve even done kick-boxing. I love the poise required.”<\/p>\n“My dream is to live in Paris for a year,” Katherine added. “My excuse will
\nbe that I really want to learn French.” She doesn’t need excuses. What
\nFrenchman would object?<\/p>\nPersonal: Born Nov. 24, New Canaan, Conn.<\/p>\n
Films: Include That Night, 1992; King of the Hill, 1993; My Father, the Hero,
\n1994; Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 1995; Wish Upon a Star, 1996; Prince
\nValiant, 1997; Stand-ins, 1997; Bug Buster, 1998; Bride of Chucky, 1998; 100
\nGirls, 200.<\/p>\nTelevision: Includes: The Tempest, 1998; Roswell, 1999-<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thanks to ALieN ISaBeL for sending this in! From The Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Parade” magazine. Sunday, February 13, 2000 Brady’s Bits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2379,3],"tags":[40,6],"coauthors":[2266],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katherine-heigl","category-leading","tag-article","tag-katherine-heigl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27938,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/27938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}