I don’t know with you but I graduated last fall from USC Film and Television Department with a degree in acting. I hired a very competitive but low-priced talent agent and two days from now, I’ll be starting shooting as a guest in one episode of Grey’s Anatomy. I can now chat with my idol Katherine Heigl. Isn’t that great? So there you have it, that’s one career advice I can dispense with you. Be good in your passion. Acting is my passion and so is Katherine Heigl. That’s why I idolize her and she has been my inspiration all throughout the four years I’ve been in USC Film and Television even though she really had no formal college education. But she’s been great as an actress.

Her very first movie was way back in 1992 and filming wrapped up earlier when she was barely 12 years old. The movie was called That Night, it was a B-movie but not that unpopular since it starred Juliette Lewis, that child wonder who is Robert de Niro’s nemesis in Cape Fear. In That Night, Juliette Lewis starred as a very sexy teenage girl who was the subject of Katherine Heigl’s voyeuristic tendencies while Juliette Lewis was making love with her boyfriend. That role alone was very challenging. Of course, Katherine had to undergo pubescence and all those goodie-goodie movie roles that came along with it. Thus, she starred in nonsense roles but were equally important since they served as training grounds for her as a better actress.

Her next movie after That Night though was Steven Soderbergh’s follow-up of sex, lies and videotape which was King of the Hill, a tale set during the Depression. Unfortunately, Katherine’s role here was relegated to a mere goodie-goodie 13-year-old kid but considering that director Soderbergh himself set his eyes on the kid, that’s really something. Of course, other worthless roles followed such as the remake of the French comedy classic My Father the Hero. In here, Katherine was fortunate enough to be paired with the greatest French actor at the time, Gerard Depardieu. Then in Under Siege 2, Katherine played Casey Ryback’s niece. Luck was really with this girl because she was paired with the great aikido artist Steven Seagal. Then came more goodie-goodie roles such as Wish Upon A Star and 100 Girls.