Katherine Heigl Talks about Her Career, We break down Just How Bad it is.

Katherine Heigl is on Marie Claire’s August 2014 cover.  In the issue she talks about Her Career…or Lack Thereof.

In a recent issue of Marie Claire, Heigl talks about her career and attributes her lack of uber success to doing too many romantic comedies.

If you are thinking what I’m thinking then you are thinking that she is in denial. Her lack of success was thinking that she was hot s@#t and leaving Grey’s Anatomy a little too early.

Heigl and Greys, Why did She leave? Meridth Provides Insight

Heigl’s final episode was on Jan. 21, 2010. This was arguably the height of her career. Duirng an interview last October Ellen Pompeo basically said that Heigl was getting offered $12 Million dollar checks to do movies. She told The Daily News

“You could understand why she wanted to go — when you’re offered $12 million a movie and you’re only 26. But Katie’s problem is that she should not have renewed her contract. She re-upped, took a big raise and then tried to get off the show. And then her movie career did not take off.”

Pompeo suggested exiting like Sandra Oh, who gave fans an entire season to adjust to her exit, that Heigl should have done something similar. [more…]

HEIGL SAYS SHE WAS BETRAYED BY HER CAREER

Heigl says that she should have done more challenging roles and less of the safe romantic comedies that she has now been known for. In the interview with Marie Claire she says,

I had an amazing time. I love romantic comedies. I was so stoked to be doing them. But maybe I hit it a little too hard. I couldn’t say no. There’s nothing wrong with them, but maybe I overloaded my audience. I should have done a superhero movie or a psychological thriller,”

After failing to reach the success that she thought was imminent, she felt betrayed and decided to switch her focus to her family, her two young daughters and husband Josh Kelley,

The thing that was my best friend for a long time, [my career], suddenly turned on me and I didn’t expect it. I was taken by surprise and angry at it for betraying me, I had a moment where, I don’t know, I was thinking, ‘Maybe open a knitting store, get my money out of retirement accounts and live off that, live off the land.’ I had my moment where it all seemed so complicated and all I wanted to do was simplify.”

BACK ON NETWORK TV – SOME HUMILITY WILL BE NEEDED

THR reported last year that insiders said that Heigl and her managing mom were difficult to deal with.  Sources say she had issues with anything from wardrobe to casting.  Let’s also not forget the Shonda Rhimes dig, when she Heigl did when an Emmy because the writing was not good enough.

The 35 year old is back now on network TV working for a new series called “State of Affairs”.  She is ready to put the past in the past and move forward.  She is also credited with not only being the star of the new drama she is also a producer.  She said that she is moving to the next phase of her adult hood and that comes with balance,

“We made a deal [with the producers] that we will only do 15 episodes a season, so I can go back to Utah and do all the things that inspire me. There’s still a part of me that’s a Hollywood animal as well,” 

HOW BAD IS HEIGL’S CAREER? 

Good question.  She has definitely hit a slump with these RomComs.  Enough is enough, here is the list of 5 movies she’s been in since leaving ‘Grey’s’.  Only one has managed to be profitable.

• The Big Wedding – (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $35K Grossed $21K
• One for the Money (comedy Crime) – Cost: $40K Grossed $26K
• New Year’s Eve – (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $56K Grossed $54K
• Life as we Kow it (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $38K Grossed $53K
• Killers (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $75K Grossed $47K

When you compare that to the 3 movies she made while still playing Izzie – you will see why leaving Grey’s was not the best idea in the World.

• The Ugly Truth – (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $38K Grossed $88K
• 27 Dresses – (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $30K Grossed $76K
• Knocked UP – (Romantic Comedy) – Cost $148K Grossed $30K

And just in case you were wondering how much she would have made if she stayed on Grey’s; Ellen Pompeo is now getting $350,000 per episode.

Pompeo’s networth is $35 million and Heigl’s is $18 million.  Like I said, you should have stayed on with Grey’s a little longer.