Katherine Heigl is setting the report straight about her 2008 squabble with “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The actor upset the present’s writers and producers that yr after opting out of Emmy consideration for her efficiency as Dr. Izzie Stevens — however on Friday’s episode of Shannen Doherty’s “Let’s Be Clear” podcast, Heigl disputed the suggestion that she’d turned down a nomination.
“I didn’t turn it down,” she stated. “You have to submit yourself. You have to submit your work, and then they deliberate and then they decide if they want to give you a nomination. I just didn’t submit my work that year.”
She later added: “I was trying to have some integrity. I wasn’t trying to be a dick.”
Heigl, who was one of many main stars of “Grey’s Anatomy,” had stated on the time that she wasn’t “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination.” Her assertion was particularly notable since she had gained an Emmy for her efficiency on the sequence one yr earlier.
“The show bent over backwards to accommodate her film schedule, and then she criticizes the show for lack of material?” a “Grey’s Anatomy” insider advised Entertainment Weekly after her assertion was launched. “It’s an ungrateful slap in the face to the very writers responsible for her Emmy win in the first place.”
On “Let’s Be Clear,” Heigl appeared regretful about her 2008 feedback. She instructed that she “should have said nothing” as an alternative, since her remarks “created such a maelstrom.”
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However she additionally stated that her phrases had been motivated by frustration.
“I was kind of trying to make a bit of a snarky point about my material that year, but I was also just not feeling my material,” she advised Doherty. “I just wasn’t proud of my work.”
She added: “I would never be so bold or so arrogant to turn down a nomination. I would take that nomination if it came my way. I’d be down. But I just knew there wasn’t anything that would really warrant one that year, and I was trying to be honorable, I guess.”
Heigl had discovered herself embroiled in separate beef in 2008 when she referred to as “Knocked Up” — the box-office hit she starred in reverse Seth Rogen — “a little sexist.”
She’s presently set to look in a brand new comedy with John Travolta and Christopher Walken, amongst others.
