Own Interview | Katherine Heigl on Life As We Know It

Katherine Heigl speaks working with Josh Duhamel, beginning Motherhood and promoting her new film: Life As We Know It

Glamour: Life As We Know It is your most recent up and coming film - what was it like working with Josh Duhamel?

Katherine: It was such a good experience, he's like the perfect leading man, you see this guy who is so good-looking and it's hard to overlook completely but he's worked his way up through modelling, soaps, TV and to movies and I was really urging him into that role.

    G: You've recently become a first-time Mum, how is that especially being so similar to the plot in your new film?

    K: When Naleigh came along I was working on Life as We Know It,  it was crazy, because as my character was learning how to take care of a one-year-old, after being obliged as a Godparent to take care of the child of her deceased friends, I was getting used to being a Mum to my adopted daughter.

G: We love seeing you in Romcoms, how was it being in a slightly more serious version of this?

K: For me, I love romantic comedies but I also love films that are able to twist and tweak that slightly. In Life As We Know It the death of the parents, when I read the script initially, took me by surprise and I think it does the same when you actually watch the film. But this film allows for sad times and happy times and that's the authenticity I look for in a movie, something that feels real.

G: At the same time though it's quite a polished world, like I know no-one with a bakery that looks as perfect as yours in the film so in that sense it's got that look of romantic comedies going for it?

K: Absolutely, however there is balance, like with the way they communicate or fight, those are the real moments. I hope there's a real connection between the characters! There's no doubt there's a heightened world around it, we knew we were going to spend the majority of time in that house so we tried to keep it spacious so there was room for the camera to move and develop the story through a character.

G: So how did you get comfortable with the 'Sophie' babies?

K: I took control! No, thankfully I just had gotten familiar with comforting a child, so I kinda do the mothering instinct thing a little bit, but it was still very new to me. We had to do a lot of breathing exercises on set just to stay calm when the babies got cranky or tired and cried! I had to be a bit cold with them, so they didn't like me as much but at least I had one in my trailer who did!

G: In one scene, your character has to deal with a rather messy nappy changing of Sophie, was that anything similar to your own experiences?

K: In the beginning when they're little, it's not that bad, definitely not as bad as it's portrayed in the film, I've never managed to get it on my face!

G: And finally, what's up next for you after Life As We Know It?

K: I'm going to be promoting my new film One For The Money about an unemployed and newly divorced woman who lands a job at her cousins bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past. And then I will be beginning work on a film called The Big Wedding which I can't say too much about yet! 

Make sure you catch Katherine Heigl's new film Life As We Know It coming out on October 2nd!


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