Tonight Show with Jay Leno Interview

Jay: Please welcome Katherine Heigl. Hey, it's good to see you!

Katherine: Good to see you!

Jay: You just turned how old now?

Katherine: 16.

Jay: 16. Man. Obviously, you're in high school and everything.

Katherine: Yes, I'm in high school, and having a great time.

Jay: Yeah. Now, I would imagine, without making you sound conceited or something, but you must sort of drive the other kids in the class nuts! I mean, you know, you're on the cover of, you know, fashion magazines and in movies, and, plus being very pretty, I mean, is that...?

Katherine: I don't know, I mean, I'm usually treated pretty normally, so...

Jay: Yeah, yeah.

Katherine: `Cause I'm in a pretty mellow town, down to earth, and...

Jay: Pretty "mellow" town?

Katherine: Pretty "mellow" town, you know, we're just chillin'.

Jay: How about your Dad? Is your Dad sort of one of these [makes shotgun cocking motion] by the window guys?

Katherine: [Laughs.] Actually, it was really funny once because, um, my dad. One of my boyfriends had a dream that my father, was like, came to the door and wouldn't let him come and get me for a date, and was like, threatening to beat him up. And my father's like, "Oh, he must of read my mind!" So...

Jay: [Laughing] Oh, I would imagine. So what kind of stuff do you do for fun, I mean, being sixteen, obviously you're in movies, but I mean, you're still sixteen!

Katherine: Right. Um, I don't know, I mean there's not a whole lot to do in my town, and...

Jay: Small town?

Katherine: Yeah, very small town. So, um, my friends and I usually get together and we've kind of mastered the TPing thing.

Jay: The TPing thing?

Katherine: You know, toilet papering houses!

Jay: Oh, toilet papering houses!

Katherine: Right, we roll it up and toilet paper and fork the lawns.

Jay: That would be great, to look out and see a fashion model toilet papering your house.

Katherine: [Laughs]

Jay: What, do you just drive around and...?

Katherine: Well, we did my boyfriend's house once and we did the most amazing job, it was so good! I mean, we had that toilet paper, it was so high up there...

Jay: Now, how many rolls would you use?

Katherine: Um, We usually buy three or four packs of twelve.

Jay: Three or four packs of twelve. Now, do you like the 2-ply or the 4-ply?

Katherine: We actually go for the extra thick kind, you know, that really fluffy Charmin kind?

Jay: Oh, oh, yeah, that would be good. You don't want to buy that single ply stuff.

Katherine: No, right. It doesn't work.

Jay: So who was the last house you did? Was it your boyfriend's?

Katherine: It was my boyfriend's house, we forked the entire lawn and...

Jay: "Forked?" Now, what is that?

Katherine: It's when you take like bags of plastic forks and you stick them in the lawn and overnight the lawn gets hard, like freezes, and you can't pull them out of the ground. [Audience laughs] Did I tell you how happy his mother was with me? She was very angry.

Jay: And you stick forks, in the lawn?

Katherine: Yup, it was fun.

Jay: Daniel [Stern], um?

Daniel: She's not wasting her time.

Katherine: Well, they used to tell us we need a hobby, but...

Jay: [laughs] Now, you sort of have your own language, too. You were telling me, you guys just sort of invent words, right? But, I guess all kids do that, right?

Katherine: Yeah. Okay, well, there's a whole lingo that goes with high school, right? I mean, you say things like "chillin'" and "buggin'" and, um, what else do we say...

Daniel: "Def?" You said "def" in your other thing, right?

Katherine: [laughs] Yes, that one. [sarcastic] [audience laughs] And there's, um... But, um, we were actually sitting around at this little, like Coffee Connection kind of place in town and we were like, "Well, we're so bored, let's make up a new word!" So , we made up one. It was "upstate"; it means cool.

Jay: "Upstate," well, I can see that, "upstate," now that would be cool. Now, let me ask you this. Now, this is a really stupid question. But do kids, like, still dance and do stuff, at like, parties and things?

Katherine: Of course.

Jay: Well, I don't know!

Katherine: Oh, come on, we're not like...

Jay: I don't know, I haven't gone out with a 16-year-old for months! Well, I don't know, I don't know what's cool, I don't know if it's cool. I mean, do kids still do dance?

Katherine: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we have, like, an ensemble of different dances.

Jay: [does a strange hand motion, possibly demonstrating "dirty dancing"] This one?

Katherine: No, we don't do that one.

Daniel: Hey, why don't you two dance? Hey, why don't you dance together?

Jay: Do you have any dances?

Katherine: Yeah, we have, okay, has anyone heard of like, The Lawnmower? Has anybody heard of that? [mild applause]

Jay: No. The Lawnmower? Is that the riding mower or the pushing mower?

Katherine: No, okay, I'll show you. Ready, okay... [does The Lawnmower to the Leno's band's music and sits back down]

Jay: Pretty good!

Katherine: [laughs] I told you I need a hobby.

Jay: Made me want to cut the lawn right now! That's very, very good! Now, you also take martial arts, right? What is it you take, is it, how do you say it, Hokkaido?

Katherine: Hokkaido.

Jay: Hokkaido!

Katherine: I don't take it, but I learned a little bit of it for Under Siege II.

Jay: Oh, I see, I see. So if I guy like, comes at you, you can sort of [makes a chopping motion]

Katherine: I don't know, sometimes I'm, not very good at it. I only learned like a little bit.

Jay: But enough to get by?

Katherine: Yeah, enough to get by, I guess.

Jay: So if I guy came at you, you could... We got a guy heard that would want to come at her?

Matthew: [comes running on stage]

Katherine: Do you want to try it?

Jay: Do you want to try it with him? Come up here, what's your name?

Katherine: Okay, I'm warning you, I'm not very good.

Jay: What is your name?

Matthew: Matthew.

Jay: Matthew! You look pretty sleazy! All right, Matthew!

Katherine: [laughs] Okay, all right, I gotta take my shoes off. [takes off shoes]

Jay: Oh, yeah. Women! Before you're attacked, always take your shoes off.

Katherine: [holds up shoe] Well, if they're heels like this, take them off.

Jay: All right, so go ahead. Does he have to attack you a certain way?

Katherine: Yes, um. [to Matthew] Okay, so why don't you put your arm just like this. Like point at me. Right, okay. Ok, I grab your hand like this. Ready? [drum roll] [Katherine flips Matthews]

Jay: Hey, thank you. There you are ladies and gentleman. Very good sir, very good sir. Thank you! [to Katherine] Very, very good. Will you come back and teach me some more dancing?

Katherine: [putting shoes back on] Absolutely.

Jay: It's nice to see you! You're a really nice woman.

Katherine: Nice to see you! [shakes Jay's hand]

Jay: Thanks. Thank you very much.

Katherine: Thanks a lot!

Jay: Katherine Heigl. We'll be right back.