Katie-Artikel aus dem OK Magazin

Hier ist ein englischer Artikel aus dem "OK"-Magazin. Wir erfahren darin einiges über Katies aktuellen Filme und über ihre Zukunftspläne. So hat sie nach 5 Jahren Dawson´s Creek erstmal keine Lust mehr auf TV-Serien, sondern möchte sich auf ihre Filmkarriere konzentrieren. Vielleich wird sie sogar bald auch mal auf der Theaterbühne zu sehen sein. Viel Spaß mit dem Artikel!

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When you meet Katie Holmes, you realise she's much taller than you'd expect. The shy, 24 year old Dawson's Creek actress is promoting her first starring role in a film Abandon, a psychological thriller from first time director Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar winning writer of Traffic. Her neatly brushed brown hair frames her tanned face and she looks as though the publicity circus may be tiring her out a little.

It's not always easy being famous, and that was never Katie's ambition. But the surprise success of Dawson's Creek elevated her profile and she became a reluctant star. Now she says she's learned to deal with her own celebrity. `I think my family probably deals with it more than I do,' she says. `I don't really pay that much attention to it. Fortunately, we shot Dawson's Creek in North Carolina, which means we weren't in Los Angeles where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business. In North Carolina, nobody bothered us.'

That said, she does concede to enjoying some aspects of the celebrity lifestyle. `It's fun to see your picture in a magazine and to go to the movies and see your poster up, but it's not like every day somebody comes up and takes my photo or asks for my autograph,' she says.

The down to earth actress reveals it's her family who keep her grounded and, although her private life often figures in teen and gossip mags, she says she doesn't care what people write about her, nor does she read all of it. `I do read some stuff, but my mum's friends tend to look for everything that's written about me and send it to her,' she adds, with a laugh.

This summer, the show, that made Katie famous will come to an end and, as series star James Van Der Beek recently revealed in an interview, he's clearly relishing the show's demise. Katie laughs: 'He'll miss me more than he lets on!' But she herself has mixed feelings. `It'll be bittersweet when the show wraps up,' she says. 'It's been a wonderful experience, but I think it's exhausted itself to a degree. I certainly love the characters on our show and it's going to be hard.'

James Van Der Beek hopes the show's ending will be perfect for its fans, but Katie says: `I want it to end my way!' She won't elaborate, however.

It was inevitable that, as one of the show's most popular cast members, Katie would land a movie part more substantial than her recent supporting roles in Phone Booth in which she played the secret girlfriend of Colin Farrell's character – and The Gift. In Abandon, she plays Katie Burke, an overachieving, popular college senior haunted by the mysterious disappearance two years earlier of her first love, an arrogant, rich and brilliant senior student, played by handsome Queer As Folk actor Charlie Hunnam.

As she prepares to graduate, the case is reopened by a detective played by Benjamin Bratt himself haunted by a traffic fatality caused by his alcoholism. Recovering and returning to work from a leave of absence, he finds himself drawn to Katie. 'I read this,' she says, `and thought, I loved that world of college students. Being in your early twenties is an exciting, scary, wonderful, crazy time and I liked the character of Katie. She's complicated, is someone all of the guys want to ask out and she's smart and popular.

`You also see she's human with problems, and is scared, lonely and heartbroken, like all of us. She's an all achiever and a type A personality, yet she's flawed like everyone. And she doesn't realise she is like everyone else and that it's okay to show that. That's exciting to play someone who goes through so many emotions.'

Katie also concedes that, to avoid typecasting, it was important for her to find a character to play who was different from Joey Potter in Dawson's Creek. She says: `I feel blessed that I've been able to do so many projects that were different from Dawson's Creek. I was looking forparts that would be very challenging and Katie Burke was certainly that.'

Evidently, the actress relished the opportunity to play 'someone under so much stress', and explains: `You meet her and she's at a point in her life where she has to decide what she wants to do get that job, finish school and grow up, all in one movie so she was going through a lot of emotional trauma, which, as an actress, wasn't always simple to portray.'

Still, it wasn't difficult for Katie to identify with her character. She says: `Everyone can relate to the kinds of pressure she was under. I tried very hard to understand her more than relate to her, because she's an extreme personality who can't really deal with,things in her life. I think at times a lot of people have difficulty dealing with certain situations, but she's just on a whole different level. What I had to do was figure out where that came from and find ways within myself to understand her viewpoint.'

Born Katherine Noelle Holmes in Toledo, Ohio, Katie grew up as part of a close knit family and first acted at school. Drama appealed, she recalls, 'because I just like playing different people and dressing up'. Participation in a national modelling and talent convention landed her a trip to Los Angeles when she was 16, which led to a role in Ang Lee's 1997 film The Ice Storm. Her performance as the object of Tobey Maguire's affections caught the attention of writer and director Kevin Williamson, who was casting for his new TV series, Dawson's Creek. Katie was invited to audition and won the part of Joey Potter.

The series, which premiered in January 1998, was warmly received by critics and television viewers alike. `What people loved about it,' she recalls, `was that it captured four people [Dawson, Joey, Jeri and Pacey]. I particularly loved the first and second seasons there was so much possibility. We had no idea what was going to. happen but were having the best time. I look back and I see four people having an exciting time. The second season was: "They've no idea what to do with their lives and they're excited."' Then what happened, we ask. 'Then we all got old!' Katie laughs.

For the now grown up Katie, there is life after Dawson's Creek. She reveals she'll concentrate on movies and avoid another TV series for the moment. 'I may even pursue some theatre,' she says. But never say never is her motto. 'Obviously,' she adds, 'if there's a really great show that comes along, I'll try out for that, too. I'll keep my options open, for sure.'

Quelle: Katieholmespictures.com