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\nExecuted killer\u2019s second life suggests Evil Never Dies<\/p>\n
Her TV series Roswell ended a year ago, but Katherine Heigl can\u2019t escape the pull of the supernatural.<\/p>\n
After three seasons as alien Isabel Evans, the young actress plays an assistant to a modern day Dr. Frankenstein in Evil Never Dies, a TBS movie thriller premiering Sunday, June 1.<\/p>\n
After a vicious killer (Simon Bossell) is executed for murdering the wife of a police officer (Thomas Gibson, Dharma&Greg) in the couple\u2019s home, he is revived in an experiment by a professor (British actor John Waters). Another wave of homicides results, sending the cop in pursuit of the madman he thought was dead.<\/p>\n
Since she also starred in the 1998 Child\u2019s Play sequel, Bride of Chucky, Heigl realizes she has a certain cache in the science-fiction and fantasy genres.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that a lot of actors make choices in terms of trying to stay away from something,\u201d she says, \u201cand I certainly make those choices as well. After Roswell, I felt the need not to play someone of high-school age anymore and play adult roles. As for horror and sci-fi, I thought I\u2019d like to veer toward romantic comedies, but when a great story comes along, it\u2019s hard to pass up the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Frankenstein-like theme of Evil Never Dies was the main lure for Heigl, who went to Australia to make the film.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first heard the story, I thought, \u2018This is ridiculous\u2019\u201d she says, \u201cthen I read the script and though, \u2019Why couldn\u2019t this be possible?\u2019 It just seemed so real, with all the medical jargon for bringing a corpse back to life, I realized that people could really buy into this. It makes you think about the advances in science that could make something like this possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Technical advisers who were on the Evil Never Dies set heightened Heigl\u2019s faith in the story.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always think it\u2019s really wise for producers to have those sorts of people around,\u201d she says. \u201cActors have no idea which wires should connect where or whether it\u2019ll look believable. Doctors were around during the lab scenes, helping us know which machines were supposed to do what and to make it look as honest as possible. Today\u2019s audiences are so sophisticated that if you don\u2019t play to their level of knowledge, they\u2019ll resent it.\u201d<\/p>\n
For all her sci-fi work, the former Wilhelmina model maintains she hasn\u2019t sought such projects purposely.<\/p>\n
\u201cScience fiction was not something I was particularly interested in,\u201d Heigl admits. \u201cI\u2019m usually more interested in romances or anything with just a good story that could be real. I did find Roswell fascinating, and through that, I started to get into the genre. It\u2019s a whole other world that writers and fans have to believe is possible, and I love mythology, so sci-fi became interesting to me at a time when I didn\u2019t think it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sparked in part by the show\u2019s current weeknight repeats on Sci-Fi Channel, mail from Roswell\u2019s fans continues to reach Heigl.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the most interesting things about that show for me,\u201d she reflects, \u201cwas that because Isabel was an alien, I got to do many things, so that was creatively satisfying. I think anyone\u2019s fear of getting involved in a show that could run for several years is that you\u2019ll be playing only one character for that long; that can get stale for an actor, so on Roswell, I really lucked out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evil Never Dies is airing soon after Heigl\u2019s work as a frontier widow in the Hallmark Channel movie Loves Comes Softly, shown in April. \u201cI\u2019ve been really fortunate with the timing of all the projects I\u2019ve done recently,\u201d says the actress, who was born in Washington D.C., but raised in Connecticut. \u201cEach one afforded me the opportunity to do something totally different. I filmed a TV spinoff of the movie Romy and Michele\u2019s High School Reunion for ABC, and it was the first time I had ever done broad comedy. I had so much fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now making an extremely updated version of the Emily Bronte classic Wuthering Heights for MTV, Heigl says, \u201cI\u2019ve never read the book \u2013 which is just shameful \u2013 but this is a very modern adaptation of the original story. There\u2019s heroin addiction in it, so it\u2019s very modern, indeed\u2026I was in an adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s The Tempest for NBC. It was set during the Civil War, so couldn\u2019t call it complete modernization, though it was an update. I\u2019m a huge Shakespeare fan, and I particularly love Othello and Romeo and Juliet, so I found the movie updates of those fascinating.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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