"Knocked Up" Director Fires Back At Heigl

Hollyscoop was on the red carpet for the 7th Annual Hollywood Life Breakthrough of the Year Awards on Sunday, where we got the chance to speak to “Knocked Up” director Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow was in the house to present his wife Leslie Mann an award for her performance in “Knocked Up”.

We talked to Judd about the success of the film and discussed his take on Katherine Heigl’s comment about the film being "a little sexist. Katherine had made a comment stating that the movie “paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I'm playing such a bitch; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you're portraying women? Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie."

Judd Apatow responded to Katherine’s comment stating, “I am just shocked she used the word SHREW, I am mean what is this the 1600’s?” Watch the video for the complete interview!

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Reader Comments

5:40AM 12/14/07 KnockedUpRock

You wished Judd will be all raged over the 'a little sexist' comment from Katherine Heigl. From the video you shown he didnt' look pissed nor unhappy. You seems to miss the last part of words he told you people 'as long as it get people talking about the movie, it's fine with me'. But really I find Alison's character to be adorable yes she had mood swing coz of her pregnancy, but still she's quite accomodating when it come to loser Ben (who I can't stomach)and his friends n twisted hobbies. If I were Alison I would have aborted the baby, and would give Ben a minutes of my time. So Katherine think Alison was being a bitch to Ben? Hell no. To me it was the other way around.

2:12PM 12/11/07 jenn

it seems to me that this director might not be working with katherine heigl on any upcoming movies. lol he really did snap at her didnt he

1:30PM 12/11/07 loo loo

it seems to me that the statements she made were more so explaining her struggle as a good actress. i think that this post is misleading, and the quote is being taken out of context. to fully understand her response, you'd have to post the question she's responding to. something this site isn't a fan of doing. the stories seem jucier if you report them that way. you may get more hits, but it's still bottom-barrel journalism.

0:42PM 12/11/07 Fink

Remember that she already had a steady, good-paying job, so there was no reason to take a role she's uncomfortable with.

0:23PM 12/11/07 Tasha

Patsy that's what I want to know. If the script offended her feminist sensibilities why did she take the part? Because of the $$$, that's why.

0:19PM 12/11/07 Patsy

Did she read the script before agreeing to take the role?

11:33AM 12/11/07 Fink

Before people start using words like sexist, they might wanna figure out what the word means. One simple, useful definition of the word is "the notion that one sex is superior to the other." So let's see ... in Knocked Up, the female lead is a driven career woman who not only holds down a full-time job but advances in it. The male lead is a layabout stoner whose male friends are all shiftless stoners like him. That sounds sexist in favor of women.