Katherine Heigl in jeans at Van Nuys Airport.
ABC entertainment president Steve McPherson responded to Katherine Heigl’s latest gripe about starring in a hit TV show.
“I think it’s unfortunate,” McPherson told TV critics about her comments. “People are going to behave in the way they choose to behave. There are so many people who work so hard on ‘Grey’s,’ and all of our shows, without any notoriety and those are the ones I’d be concerned about, people who feel like they’re being criticized or looked down upon.”
If you’ve been following this casting hullabaloo on Grey’s Anatomy, which recently included news of Kate Walsh returning to Seattle Grace, you probably know that news of Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight leaving the show spread like wild fire days ago courtesy of fellow cast member James Pickens, only to be denied (vaguely) by creator Shonda Rhimes. Apparently, whether or not Heigl will leave the ABC medical dramedy, the actress has made plans to keep herself busy during off-season, so to speak.
After 27 Dresses and Knocked Up, Heigl will join Ashton Kutcher in the thriller Five Killers as a woman who marries her own McDreamy (or McDenny if you want to be faithful to the Grey’s storyline) while on vacation, only to find out that the couple next door are assassins out to kill her and her husband. Five Killers will be directed by Robert Luketic, whom Heigl worked with in an upcoming romantic comedy The Ugly Truth.
The upcoming project for Heigl will take her to Atlanta and the south of France.