{"id":671747,"date":"2026-07-03T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671747\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:59:08","slug":"seth-rogen-confirms-why-anne-hathaway-quit-knocked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671747\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Confirms Why Anne Hathaway Quit Knocked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seth Rogen has confirmed the reason Anne Hathaway quit Knocked Up<\/a> and was replaced by Katherine Heigl \u2014 at least how he remembers it.<\/p>\n

Knocked Up is a much-loved 2007 romcom in which Katherine Heigl\u2019s character becomes pregnant following a one-night stand with Seth Rogen\u2019s slacker stoner character. Originally, Katherine Heigl\u2019s character, the ambitious Los Angeles reporter Alison Scott, was played by The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway, but she dropped out.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The A24 Podcast<\/a>, Rogen said Hathaway quit the movie because of the crowning scene, which sees Scott give birth. <\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen at the Knocked Up Los Angeles premiere in Westwood, California, United States. Photo by Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic, Inc for Variety Magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean\u2026 it could have been a hundred million things. That was what I remember being told,\u201d Rogen said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t want the crowning of the baby to be visually representative, which I respect.<\/p>\n

“There was no confusion. After it happened in the movie no-one was like… because it was a baby coming out of it. And so, no level… Daniel Day Lewis wouldn’t do that! That’s a level of acting that… It\u2019s obviously not real.<\/p>\n

“We had started rehearsing the movie\u2026 and part of me was just… maybe she was just like, \u2018I don\u2019t know if this is for me.\u2019 I don\u2019t know. I will take what she said at face value, which was the crowning.\u201d<\/p>\n

“And history will tell\u2026 she has been right about a lot more things than I have over the years! So I think she was probably right. She knew what was right for her, yes. And then Heigl was great. Katie Heigl was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hathaway herself has mentioned this in the past. In 2008, she told Marie Claire magazine<\/a> she turned down the part “because it was going to show a vagina \u2014 not mine, but somebody else’s \u2014 and I didn’t believe that it was actually necessary to the story.”<\/p>\n

As Rogan suggests, Knocked Up wouldn’t have even featured Hathaway\u2019s own nudity, rather the nudity of someone else in a scene. Hathaway has also countered the suggestion she has a squeaky clean image, and profile interviews have said she has no problem going topless on-camera (she did so in both Havoc and Brokeback Mountain before Knocked Up came out).<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t actively search for [films] that I can get naked in,\u2019 she told Marie Claire. \u201cBut nor is it something that I would ever not do a job because of. It is what it is. Some people choose not to do it on moral grounds; I think that\u2019s a shoddy argument.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo by Carlo Allegri\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen has confirmed the reason Anne Hathaway quit Knocked Up and was replaced by Katherine Heigl \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}