Is Katherine Heigl The New Julia Roberts?

Despite this year's somewhat deflated Oscars ceremony, everyone from style pundits to internet bloggers was in complete agreement that actress Katherine Heigl was the belle of the ball.

Dressed in a stunning blood-red Escada number, hair teased into Monroe-style curls, Heigl oozed old-fashioned Hollywood glamour on a grey Oscars night that was desperately in need of a touch of colour.

But then Heigl should be getting used to generating a buzz around her. Having made her name in the hugely popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy as the lovelorn Dr Izzie Stevens, and then followed it up with last year's surprise summer hit movie, Knocked Up, she is strongly being touted by the industry as The Next Julia Roberts - a prediction which predictably makes her blanch.

"To be honest, it's too much pressure to believe that I could ever fill her shoes," she says, "and I can't help but feel that it's a little insulting to her to have that said about her".

"In any case, I think Julia Roberts herself has the whole Julia Roberts thing well under control."

Ever since The Real Julia Roberts ditched romantic comedies to take on meatier roles, the quest has been on to find her replacement and, with Heigl's latest film, many critics think they have found her......

Read the complete article and interview at the Daily Mail online.