Katherine Heigl Drops Out of the Emmy Race?

Posted by Emily Farris

 

Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl — who won a best supporting actress Emmy last year for her role as Izzy Stevens on the show — has greatly decreased her chances of winning one this year by, uh, removing herself from the race completely. And it appears to be a big "fuck you" to the writers. 

Apparently, Heigl just didn't think her role was good enough. 

"I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention," Heigl told L.A. Times columnist Tom O' Neil. "In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials," she added


Now, we're not in the television industry so we don't really know how things work. But we are writers, and we do know that writers have pretty large egos. So we won't be surprised if Izzy finds herself back in that trailer park next season with a crack habit, bad acne and three-inch roots. 

[LA Times: Emmy champ Katherine Heigl quits the race, blaming 'Grey's Anatomy' writers]


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Comments

tartlet said:

Wow.  What can I say, I totally agree with her.  She did a decent enough job with the material she was given this season, but the material itself absolutely blew.  Through bad writing Izzy went from being an interesting character with balls, integrity and sensitivity to being pathetic, self-interested, internally inconsistent, one-dimensional and boring.  Which is why I was rendered speechless at Miranda's speech in the season finale, which noted Izzy's amazing growth and development.  Um, excuse me?  Did I miss something?  And most characters on the show were given the same treatment.

So anyway, Heigl is a tad idealistic if she thinks awards shows have any integrity in the first place, and this probably isn't the best method to address poor writing issues, but she definitely has a point.

June 12, 2008 1:16 PM

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