Seth Rogen has opened up on why Anne Hathaway stepped away from the hit movie Knocked Up in 2008, with the role later filled by Katherine Heigl
A birthing scene caused Anne Hathaway to quit filming Knocked Up, according to Seth Rogen. The star of the hit movie, 44, has claimed the actress, 43, ended up pulling out of the movie as she wasn’t keen on filming the shot of a crowning birth.
In the scene in the 2007 movie, Anne would have had to act out the final phase of labour, when a baby’s head is visible. But after Anne pulled out, Katherine Heigl went on to play Allison Scott in the motion picture.
And she played an impressive part as her and Seth’s character played a mismatched couple having a baby together. Speaking with Olivia Wilde on the A24 podcast, Seth said: “It was Anne Hathaway who quit the movie.”
Olivia, who had also put herself forward for the part, asked the Hollywood star if it was due to the crowning scene. And Seth said: “Yeah, I mean… it could have been a hundred million things. That was what I remember being told.
“Crowning is a tough one. She didn’t want the crowning of the baby to be visually representative. Even though it wasn’t going to be hers… It’s obviously not real. But she didn’t even want… she felt that it was not her brand.”
Seth went on: “Part of me also… we had started rehearsing the movie… maybe she was just like, ‘I don’t know if this is for me.’ I don’t know. I will take what she said at face value, which was the crowning.”
But he admits he feels she “probably” made the correct decision in quitting her role. He continued: “She had a sense, and she knew it was not for her.
“And history will tell… she has been right about a lot more things than I have over the years. So I think she was probably right. [
“Heigl] knew what was right for her, yes. And then Heigl was great. Katie Heigl was great.”
Despite his words, Katherine previously labelled the film “a little sexist”. She confessed in 2008, the the movie was a “hard” one for her to love.
Speaking to Vanity Fair at the time, she said: “It paints the women as shrews, as humourless 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 b***h; why is she being such a killjoy?
“Why is this how you’re portraying women? 98 per cent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie.”
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