Katherine Heigl: It’s no picnic faking an orgasm on screen!
Trust Katherine Heigl on this one – it’s no picnic faking an orgasm for the big screen.
She felt she’d been put through the wringer on the set of The Ugly Truth the day she filmed a sequence which her admiring co-star, Gerard Butler, predicts “will go down in the annals of history in comedies because it’s a classic scene.”
Heigl hopes that will definitely prove the case when The Ugly Truth romps into theatres on Friday. The verdict is still out as to whether she succeeds in trumping Meg Ryan’s celebrated moment of simulated rapture in When Harry Met Sally, but Heigl makes clear that she gave her scene – which involves a restaurant dinner party, vibrating underwear and a remote-control device operated by an innocent kid – her all.
“Oh my god, it was a nightmare,” giggles Heigl who reveals that the scene required 35 set-ups. And yes, she may have been faking her eruptions – but it was still physically exhausting.
“It’s so much physical movement, with the legs dancing under the table and all the tensing up of the body . . . At the end of the day, I felt I had done a marathon. I thought I had run 20 miles. Then I went: OK, I know why this is called ‘physical’ comedy because it’s so physical and exhausting. No one wants to orgasm 35 times!”
Co-star Butler notes that the scene has been breaking up audiences at preview performances. “I don’t know many people who don’t love it. It’s one of the most brilliant performances I’ve ever seen. Katherine was – dare I say – bang-on.”
Pics: Katherine Heigl stopped by the Letterman show yesterday to promote her new movie.
