Katherine Heigl

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Knocked Up (2007); 27 Dresses (2008); Grey's Anatomy (TV); My Father the Hero; The Ugly Truth.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Mean Girls ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill thinks Mean Girls may have been the first to figure out 'more funny than romantic, but also having the romance'.
    “I feel like mean girls might have been the 1st one that figured out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:37 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

Starting Over: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Starting Over ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill offers Starting Over (Burt Reynolds, a love triangle in Boston) as an early prototype of Apatow movies.
    “It's got, it feels like a very early prototype of these Apatow movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:05:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally (1989): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read). Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift.
    “It starts with when Harry Met Sally.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

This Is 40: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says halfway through the movie it becomes a Rudd and Mann movie, which becomes This Is 40.
    “the movie pretty much becomes like a Rudd and man movie by the end of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:12:53 · Bill Simmons (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ This Is 40 (the host's read). Bill says the sequel is a more complicated movie than Knocked Up; Juliet says she doesn't like it as much.
    “This is 40, that it was looming, which I think is a more complicated movie than this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:44:31 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Bridesmaids (2011): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Knocked Up (2007), which they acted in: Knocked Up ⇒ Bridesmaids (the host's read). Bill frames Bridesmaids as Apatow's answer to the criticism of the female lead in Knocked Up.
    “And bridesmaids is the mic trap, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:11:00 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Grey's Anatomy (TV). Bill says Heigl got more attention from Grey's Anatomy and was good in Knocked Up, laying seeds of a major star.
    “She goes on Grey's Anatomy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:19:10 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Julia Roberts. Bill lines up Heigl with Reese Witherspoon, young Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts as someone you can tell 'has it'.
    “you kind of know it when somebody has it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:19:26 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Sandra Bullock. Juliet says the Vanity Fair cover treatment Heigl got was one Sandra Bullock got after Speed.
    “Sandra Bullock got it, right after speed”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:11 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Grey's Anatomy (TV). Juliet says Shonda Rhimes does not suffer insults, so Heigl was banished from Grey's Anatomy after the Vanity Fair article.
    “She does not suffer insults.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:22:29 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Lindsay Lohan. Bill's hottest take: Heigl and Lohan are the two lost superstars of the decade.
    “I just think her and Lohan are the 2 lost superstars from this decade.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Katherine Heigl → Knocked Up. Juliet recounts Heigl saying in Vanity Fair she could not be proud of Knocked Up because of sexism, then walking it back on Howard Stern.
    “She says that she can't be proud of knocked up because of the sexism in it, which she then had to walk back on Howard Stern.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:46 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Katherine Heigl → Entourage (TV). For Apex Mountain, Bill asks if Heigl is at Vinnie Chase Aquaman level.
    “I don't know if, is it Vinny Chase Aquaman level?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:07:47 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Sydney Sweeney → Katherine Heigl. The 2022 recast: Sydney Sweeney in the Heigl role after Euphoria.
    “I have Sidney Sweeney in the Heiger role.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:04:49 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Katherine Heigl: Heigl's Vanity Fair interview (Annie Leibovitz shoot, written by Leslie Bennetts) insulted Knocked Up, Grey's Anatomy and Shonda Rhimes in one article.
    “She manages to insult basically everyone that then and still matters in what she wanted to be doing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:20:39 · Juliet Litman (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Katherine Heigl: Heigl said the movie paints the women as shrews and the men as lovable, goofy guys.
    “paints the woman as shrews as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun loving guys.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:21:01 · Juliet Litman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Katherine Heigl: Bill's half-fast research: Heigl in 2014 owned 8 dogs, 4 cats, 9 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 goats and 8 chickens.
    “She owned 8 dogs, 4 cats, 9 horses, 2 donkeys, 2 goats, and 8 chickens.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 1:06:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)