Out Of
This World - Katherine Heigl of Roswell takes on the universe
Getting through high school can be hard. There’s finding a date for the prom,
figuring out your place in the world, not to mention acne. Throw into that being from
another planet and you begin to understand what Katherine Heigl’s character is going
through on the WB drama Roswell.
Heigl plays Isabel Evans, a somewhat clairvoyant alien high school student in Roswell,
New Mexico. "The real genius of the show," she says, "is that all kids have
felt alienated in high school. All kids feel different, like they don’t fit in, and,
like the characters in the show, their lives are a process of discovery."
For Heigl, 22, that process began at the pre-adolescent age of nine, when her aunt sent
photographs of the young beauty to several modeling agencies in New York. After a brief
stint as a child model, Katherine soon found herself doing commercials and by the time she
was 12, had appeared in her first film, That Night. |
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fortunate to discover so young something I’m so passionate about and something I want
to spend the rest of my life doing." Her big break came when she was 14, starring
opposite Gerard Depardieu in My Father the Hero.
"Gerard was wonderful," Heigl recalls. "I remember him telling me
‘Don’t be a star, be an actor.’ And that was very influential for me coming
from him."
In all, Heigl has appeared in eight films, with two more coming out this year. February
14 sees the release of Valentine, and 100 Girls should be out later this
year.
For now, Heigl is focusing on her character in Roswell, and looking forward
toward her future. She says, "For me, the most important thing is production. I would
really like to get to the point where I have the ability to put out the kind of material
I’d like to see out there and the kind of material I’d like to be in. But,"
she adds, "who knows what will happen five years from now?"
Interview and article by
Craig A. Williams |
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