KATHERINE HEIGL ONLINE

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Could you tell us about your experiences shooting the film?

Do you want an anecdote?! I worked with Tom Sizemore, and he is my alter ego in the film. Tom and I would go to very strange places in the script. What we ended up having on camera, was not necessarily what the director had in mind. We experimented a lot. Something happens between actors sometimes and you get an actor like Sizemore and an actor like myself and we both like to discover what the scene is about and create. And if he throws a snowball at me, I'm going to duck and pick one up and throw one at him, and he's going to pick one up and throw one back… so when actors do that, anything that happens is unexpected and exciting. So that was a wonderful experience going to strange places with Tom Sizemore. He had fun, I had fun. We want to work together again.

Was the filming process an enjoyable one?

All filming is enjoyable. Anyone who says it’s not is just simply not a real actor, they're just collecting their paycheck, and wanting to move on to the next project. All acting is enjoyable, therefore all of the film process is enjoyable. The behind the scenes and the filming process of producing, is people management and you're dealing with people with talent so you're dealing with an unusual mix. You're having to find out that you're dealing with something that is not measurable on paper, you're having to find out who really has talent, and who to get rid of and who you need to replace. They're always mixing and firing and coming up with new people and then ultimately you come up with the best people that you're ever going to get by the time you start shooting. And if you had another month, you'd probably fire them and bring in someone even better... I like the whole process very much. It's a collaborative effort to tell a story and exciting when all the minds come together and get excited about the characters and what the movie is about and everyone gets behind it.

Any behind-the-scenes stories you would like to share?

That was really my shot gun in the movie. Props brought a shotgun and it was ugly and terrible and fake so I brought my real one. I shoot a lot, so I did a safety exercise for everybody every time we went to use the shotgun. I opened the chamber, put my finger up the barrel, to show everyone that it was empty before we used it, which is not only courtesy, it's safety, so that no actor is going to get hurt.

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