E.T. Does It
Katherine Heigl is really into her character. Heigl plays Isabel, an extraterrestrial
high schooler with magical powers, on Roswell, an X-Files-meets-Dawson's Creek drama on
The WB Network. "In a recent episode, Isabel waved her hand over a spot on her
clothes and made it disappear," says Heigl. "I mean, how cool would that be? I
totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new
outfit."
Having, like, a whole new job on television is pretty cool too. After appearing in
eight films, including Under Seige 2 and Bride of Chucky, Heigl, 21, beat out a hundred
young actresses at a Roswell audition last year. "She's my best friend," says
co-star Majandra Delfino. "We hang out on weekends, watch Grease 2 and make homemade
face masks. We're just like girls."
As a real little girl, Heigl grew up in New Canaan, Conn., where she modeled before
segueing into movies. She dated Blossom actor Joey Lawrence, then 18, for three months in
1994. "I was on the East Coast. He was in L.A. It was mostly over the phone,"
she says. Nowadays she lives in her four-bedroom L.A. home with her manager-mom, Nancy, 56
(who was divorced from her dad, banker Paul, 58, in '96). Do aliens live on Earth? "I
don't know," she says. "But Dennis Rodman does make me wonder." |
