Anne Hathaway Passed on Knocked Up — And Found Her Own Path to Stardom

Anne Hathaway was supposed to play the knocked-up journalist Alison Scott in the 2007 comedy Knocked Up, but she dropped out over the decision to use real footage of a baby being born.

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The movie fared no better with Hathaway’s replacement, Katherine Heigl, who didn’t mind the birthing scene but later slammed the movie as “a little sexist,” painting women as “humorless and uptight” while making men look “lovable and goofy” — which sparked the birth of a feud between her and costar Seth Rogen and director Judd Apatow.