- I don't know that there's any one person
that I would love to play, but I know
that there's so many different women
I would have a great time diving into.
That sounded dirty,
but what I mean is diving into their personalities.
You get it.
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That's a tough one.
I mean I would really love to know
where Holly and Messer ended up,
but I think I probably would really wanna know
where Kevin and Jane ended up.
So I'd say "27 Dresses."
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My current passion project
is I would've to say my foundation,
the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation,
which is for animal advocacy.
And we're just trying to save our companion pets
in our country.
Doing our part, so you do yours.
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Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
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Okay, so I related to Jane
in "27 dresses," so much at that time
because I was just like a massive people pleaser.
And most people pleasers
are typically simmering with rage and resentment.
So, that was me at 27.
It made like that was Jane.
And then, when I played Holly for life,
as we know it, I had just become a new mother.
And so, I really deeply related to that.
Who else did I relate to?
What else have I done in my life?
I can't even remember.
I'm getting really old and tired.
I think Izzie Stevens for "Grey's" when I was 25,
I think, when we started the show.
I feel like she was me and I was her.
And then, of course, when you do a series like that,
when it films for nine months like that,
the writers get to know you as a person
and spend so much time with you
and you spend so much time in the character,
inevitably, parts of yourself kind of exhibit.
So, it was fun when we started getting to do
a little comedy with "Grey's Anatomy."
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You know, that's tough playing a lawyer or a doctor.
I mean they're both tough because
and I'll tell you why they're tough.
Not necessarily because you know the profession is tough,
but I'm just pretending, that's easy.
The words, the language,
it's almost a totally different language
often in both situations.
I remember once being like, "What does this word even mean?
Like what is it, I'm saying?"
And our, you know, physician's assistant
that used to like work with us
and help us be as authentic as we can be would be like,
"Oh, it just means he's got high blood pressure."
And I was like, "Why can't we just say high blood pressure?
Why do I have to say this in crazy Latin word?
That is insane and I don't understand."
So I'd say I think doctor was harder.
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A lot of Tully kind of pursuing her dreams in the '80s
and really trying to get to that next level in her career.
And then kind of seeing her present day Tully,
well, early 2000s Tully,
who has her career has really taken a dive
or a turn for the worst.
So her trying to kind of get through that, come through that
and just more of her loving Kate and their friendship.
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I am still very good friends with my five girlfriends
from high school and I call us the Sacred Six.
And we were thickest thieves
all through like middle school, high school.
You know, they went to college. I went to LA.
Our lives kind of split and divided
and we all went off in our different directions.
One of the Sacred Six and I have, she was my bridesmaid,
I was her bridesmaid.
We've stayed very close,
but I kind of lost the rest of the girls.
And it was maybe three years ago, four years ago,
we all ended up reconnecting via like Zoom or FaceTime
and that Marco Polo app.
Started a big text chain
and it was like no time had passed at all.
So I'm very grateful for those girls
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Best advice from a co-star,
get Botox.
(Katherine laughing)
Peter Fonda once told me, how did he put this?
I'm trying to be eloquent and it's not working out for me.
When you have a scene that's really emotional
or you have to be really emotional in a scene,
it's better almost to fight tears than to give into tears.
Most people are not comfortable being vulnerable
and don't want to cry in front of others.
And so they are trying to stop themselves
and that's what really
he basically taught me fight against it.
And that that's more powerful.
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I don't know that I have a dream role.
I don't know that there's any one person
that I would love to play, but I know
that there's so many different women
I would have a great time diving into.
That sounded dirty,
but what I mean is diving into their personalities.
You get it.
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I mean there's so many things I'd like to accomplish
you know, then I've overwhelmed myself
and I'm never gonna finish any of it.
Things that I'm most intrigued by right now
in my personal life are herbology.
I think it's very interesting
and I like making skincare products
and tinctures and stuff for like healing
and I would love to complete my herbology course.
And I've had a lot of fun
taking a lot of online art classes.
So I would love to kind of complete
a series of work that I would be brave enough to show.
But it will never happen by the end of the year.
That's by the end of my life.
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I do now.
Kate gets married in the '80s to Johnny.
Since it's the '80s, I told them
like it would be really fun until he's her bridesmaid.
And I said it would be really fun
if we modeled the bridesmaids dresses after
like one of those absurd dresses from 27 dresses.
And they did.
So they built a dress for all the gals
that were the bridesmaids.
And I said, you have to let me keep this
'cause it has now double the meaning.
It was from "27 Dresses," you know, inspired,
but for a "Firefly Lane," where my character
was actually an '80s bridesmaid.
I have been off work now since April.
So I have had day after day of my perfect days off.
Just spending an entire day drawing, or painting,
or taking a class, or in my kitchen
playing with my herbs.
And then, ending the day on my sofa
with all eight of my dogs and all three of my children.
That's how big my sofa is.
And watching like a movie
or we actually have been watching "Heartland."
(Katherine laughing)
That's my perfect day off.
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Certainly my family.
My mother for sure keeps me grounded, (laughs)
humbled really.
My husband keeps me grounded.
I find him to be a very safe place for me.
Somebody I can super count on to have my back.
My children, just being mom, keeps me very grounded.
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I was watching a TikTok and this husband asks his wife,
"If you could have dinner with someone dead or alive,
who would," you know, "who would you choose?"
And she went, "Alive."
Like I'd choose somebody alive.
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Three people dead or alive that I would have dinner with.
I know that so many fascinating, interesting people
in the world in history and even now
but I'm probably always gonna go with family
that I've loved and lost
and that I would it would be remarkable
to get to sit at dinner with and see again.
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Oh this one, love language.
This one, I didn't know what this was
until my girlfriends told me
and they all started listing theirs.
And I was like, "God, I don't know.
I'd have to really think about it."
So to give, I am kind of like probably more gifts.
I love to give gifts
and I love to give really thoughtful gifts.
And I love to figure out, you know, what would really speak
to this person I'm giving the gift to.
It's very difficult with a 14 year old
(Katherine laughing)
We have lost the thread.
I'm trying, I think it's shopping now.
I'm trying.
And then get, I like touch.
I like to be hugged or held, but sometimes I don't.
I don't want you to touch me at all.
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So Josh and I are such date night
in people because we live in the middle of nowhere in Utah.
So for us to go anywhere,
sort of to get dressed up and go anywhere,
it would be a 20 to 30 minute drive.
There's no Uber. There's no taxi service.
Like you gotta get yourself there
and then you can't have a drink or two,
because you gotta get yourself home.
Typically, we are date night in people.
And I was just talking to my daughter at lunch
about this 'cause she said,
"You and dad don't do date night."
And I said, "We do.
We just wait till you guys have gone to bed.
And then, we pour a drink and we sit down
and we watch something we wanna watch.
You know, we turn off 'Heartland,'
and move on to something darker or sexier."
That is date night.
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Pet peeve, pet peeve, pet peeve.
Chewing with your mouth open, Josh Kelly.
That's what I do, like sitting on the sofa and I'll be like.
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And he's like, (chewing).
(Katherine laughing)
And that's our relationship.
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Oh man, that's tough.
Unity, I think.
I would like to see some more unity.
I feel we have become so deeply divided
and we've created this sort of separatism,
me against you, you against me.
And it's awful to see that happening with our children too
because they're so influenced by their parents
and so influenced by what goes on at home
and so influenced by the opinions they hear regularly.
And quite frankly, I don't think any
of our opinions matter at all.
I think what matters is
that we teach our children unity and acceptance
and to love themselves and to love each other
and that none of us are in this alone.
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