I brought you some chocolate cake, and theyre having lamb and, look, scalloped potatoes!
she cries, settling herself down at the small kitchen table.
Katie, the doctor needs your SAG card to fill the prescription.
Credit: PHOTOGRAPH BY JUSTIN STEPHENS
I think I left it in my other wallet at home, says Heigl, 28.
Katie, dont switch wallets anymore, her mother says.
Just pick one and stick with it!
Heigl barks, good-naturedly.
Somebodys cranky for lunch, says Nancy.
Ever since, various Jeremy Piven-esque characters have been swooping in and trying to replace her mother.
Theyre all making a play, says Heigl.
She attributes much of her success to her mothers good sense and shrewd business savvy.
The actress nods admiringly.
She really lures them in with the needlepointing and the Ann Taylor Loft clothes, she says.
Nobody would suspect that shes a pit bull.
Team Heigls focus right now is making that often fraught transition from TV to the big screen.
A perfect time, then, to getKnocked Up.
He was off the page and going on a run, she says.
Nobody said, By the way, were just going to improv!
They all thought he was some guy we paid to read, says Apatow.
Katherine was the only actress who laughed at Seth during the audition.
It was perfect, remembers Rogen.
Shes tall and statuesque, so it looks like she could knock the s out of me.
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