‘Tis the season clearly for actresses to air their grievances about not being treated as they’d like. The latest is Katherine Heigl, formerly of Gray’s Anatomy, who dissed her chances by turning down an Emmy nomination on the basis she hadn’t been given good enough material and left the show two years later. Then complained her role in a Seth Rogen movie was ‘sexist’ when presumably she had read the script before signing. Having built up a reputation for being difficult she says she was then effectively blacklisted.
Her abrupt and very public dismissal of the 2008 Best Supporting Actress Emmy nomination was considered a “swipe” at Grey’s Anatomy producers for cutting back her role. It was so bizarre and such a slap in the face for the producers it’s a miracle she wasn’t removed instantly.
Born 24 November 1978, she’s a Sun Sagittarius with a showbizzy Mars, Neptune and Mercury in Sagittarius square Saturn (Moon) in Virgo. A Mars square Saturn is scratchy, on a short fuse and with Neptune in the middle veers towards the neurotic/paranoid.
Clashing with the formidable and super-successful Shonda Rimes, 13 January 1970, producer of Gray’s Anatomy and more recently Bridgerton, was never going to end well with Rimes’ ultra-determined Mars in Pisces opposition Pluto clashing with Heigl’s Sagittarius planets.
Heigl has a few rays of Jupiterian sunshine this year but is running towards a Plutonic blockage in 2022.
The other actress in recent times who spoke out about being written off as difficult is Janet Hubert, who starred in the first three seasons of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air with Will Smith until she left and later blamed him for having spoken out against her. Though in subsequent interviews she admitted she was going through a difficult personal time which affected her behaviour with a new baby and unemployed husband, which no one knew.
Born 13 January 1956 in Chicago, she’s a Sun Capricorn with an intense Venus in Aquarius opposition Pluto Jupiter square Mars in Scorpio and Saturn in Sagittarius. And that is heavyweight – with again a Mars Saturn theme but amplified with Pluto involved as well.
Poor-victim-me isn’t a good look for women aiming to be taken seriously as equal and independent. The first step to self-awareness is owning your actions and your mouth.
Completely agree, Marjorie. Her dismissal of the Emmy nomination was all the more a slap in the face of the Grey’s Anatomy producers because she herself had requested that her role be pared back so that she could do a film! The idea that the backlash was sexist is equally ridiculous. Shonda Rimes, a female showrunner, was actually harsher with the “difficult” male actors Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey.
The sooner we get out of this Neptune in Pisces victimfest the better.
I’ve been noticing a lot of these articles where “difficult people” claim they’ve been blacklisted for it. Often I read the article and “Think maybe you just are hard work to get along with”. I’ve cetainly worked with people like that. I no longer let people like that be part of my social life.
There is an equality issue here … I was recently reading about how Bruce Willis (fixed grand cross) was singled out by the director of RED, Kevin Smith … “I want to thank everyone who worked on the film, except for Bruce Willis, who is a ****ing dick” !! Bruce won’t get blacklisted until he reaches Stephen Seagal’s lack of box office success (another difficult man).
But maybe the equality we need here is to stop enabling the difficult men, not start enabling the difficult women as well..