Anne Hathaway Quit Knocked Up Because 'She Didn't Want the Crowning of the Baby to Be Visually Representative,' Seth Rogen Says

Seth Rogen has confirmed the crushed Anne Hathaway discontinue Knocked Up and was replaced by Katherine Heigl — astatine slightest however helium remembers it.

Knocked Up is simply a much-loved 2007 romcom successful which Katherine Heigl’s quality becomes large pursuing a one-night basal with Seth Rogen’s slacker stoner character. Originally, Katherine Heigl’s character, the ambitious Los Angeles newsman Alison Scott, was played by The Devil Wears Prada prima Anne Hathaway, but she dropped out.

Speaking connected The A24 Podcast, Rogen said Hathaway discontinue the movie due to the fact that of the crowning scene, which sees Scott springiness birth.

Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen astatine the Knocked Up Los Angeles premiere successful Westwood, California, United States. Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc for Variety Magazine.

“Yeah, I mean… it could person been a 100 cardinal things. That was what I retrieve being told,” Rogen said. “She didn’t privation the crowning of the babe to beryllium visually representative, which I respect.

"There was nary confusion. After it happened successful the movie no-one was like... due to the fact that it was a babe coming retired of it. And so, nary level... Daniel Day Lewis wouldn't bash that! That's a level of acting that... It’s evidently not real.

"We had started rehearsing the movie… and portion of maine was just... possibly she was conscionable like, ‘I don’t cognize if this is for me.’ I don’t know. I volition instrumentality what she said astatine look value, which was the crowning.”

"And past volition tell… she has been close astir a batch much things than I person implicit the years! So I deliberation she was astir apt right. She knew what was close for her, yes. And past Heigl was great. Katie Heigl was great.”

Hathaway herself has mentioned this successful the past. In 2008, she told Marie Claire mag she turned down the portion "because it was going to amusement a vagina — not mine, but idiosyncratic else's — and I didn't judge that it was really indispensable to the story."

As Rogan suggests, Knocked Up wouldn't person adjacent featured Hathaway’s ain nudity, alternatively the nudity of idiosyncratic other successful a scene. Hathaway has besides countered the proposition she has a squeaky cleanable image, and illustration interviews person said she has nary occupation going topless on-camera (she did truthful successful some Havoc and Brokeback Mountain earlier Knocked Up came out).

“I don’t actively hunt for [films] that I tin get bare in,’ she told Marie Claire. “But nor is it thing that I would ever not bash a occupation due to the fact that of. It is what it is. Some radical take not to bash it connected motivation grounds; I deliberation that’s a shoddy argument.”

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