Katherine Heigl plays Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens on Grey's Anatomy. Photo / Reuters
Katherine Heigl plays Isobel 'Izzie' Stevens on Grey's Anatomy. Photo / Reuters
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Actress Katherine Heigl is still adjusting to the change in her Grey's Anatomy character, Dr Izzie Stevens.
Izzie has been having an open affair with her married best friend, Dr George O'Malley, causing a world of pain for his surgeon-wife, Callie.
"That was a kind of a bigchange for Izzie, wasn't it, after she was so up on her moral high ground," the 29-year-old actress says in Vanity Fair's upcoming January issue.
"They really hurt somebody and they didn't seem to be taking a lot of responsibility for it. I have a really hard time with that kind of thing. I'm maybe a little too black-and-white about it."
Heigl says shes aware of the reasonings behind such plot developments.
"It was a ratings ploy. It was absolutely something that shocked people; it wasn't predictable, and people didn't see it coming... Business is business; I understand that, but I want there to be some cooperation between the business end and the creative end, so there's some way of keeping it real."
Heigl, who won an Emmy for her role in September, says she does not "really know Izzie very well right now. ... I'm trying to figure her out and keep her real".
Heigl also offers some critical remarks about last summer's smash comedy Knocked Up, costarring Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd.
"It was a little sexist," she says. "It paints the women as shrews, as humourless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. ... Ninety-eight per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie."
