These photos are a momentous occasion for a few reasons. First up: Katie Holmes has christened a new pair of fug booties, and we’ll probably never see the end of them. The last pair lasted … years. Seriously. She wore them starting in 2011, and they continued through 2012 and beyond. Those were basically her liberation booties,. Now she has a new pair, which are bright red and just as fug. But at least they have personality and aren’t boring and tan. You can see a better photo of the booties at the bottom of this post.
These pictures also provide a grand opportunity for us to discuss Katie’s return to television. I have been hoping for over a year (ever since her Broadway show shuttered months early) that she’d pursue a small screen gig. The small screen loves Katie, and there’s so much residual Dawson’s Creek nostalgia that I think people would tune in. At least once! Katie’s been tapped to play a NYC socialite. Here’s the official People announcement, which leaves out a few details that we’ll discuss:
With her fashion line closed, Katie Holmes is focused on acting, returning to TV in her first starring role since Dawson’s Creek.
Holmes will play an “Audrey Hepburn-esque” New York City socialite in an untitled ABC drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Beautiful Creatures director Richard LaGravenese will write and executive-produce the show.
Holmes, 35, has been busy with movie projects and TV guest spots since the teen cult classic Dawson’s Creek ended in 2003. After splitting from ex-husband Tom Cruise, she moved with daughter Suri, 7 1/2, to New York – a fitting location for the ABC pilot, which will follow the rivalry between two influential and manipulative Manhattan women.
But in real life, Holmes happily keeps things low-key in the Big Apple.
“I love the theater, the galleries in my neighborhood. Stuff [like] that is so much of what makes me love this city,” she told PEOPLE in February. “I love the Knicks. I love talking to my neighbors in the elevator. I like feeling a part of something big.”
[From People]
They left out the best part of this story: Katie’s main male rival is Rufus Sewell (who is very English and very delicious). Richard LaGravenese would probably also prefer to be known as the Behind the Candelabra writer instead of director of the failed Beautiful Creatures, right? I’m a little worried that Rufus has gone through tv roles like water, but we’ll see what happens. Katie is supposed to be playing a very ruthless and conniving woman, which sounds challenging for her talent level. Can Katie pull it off somehow? Bye bye, Joey Potter.
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I’ll watch Rufus Sewall. If Katie Holmes happens to be in the scene, good for her but she won’t have my attention.
exactly i have watched everyy crap that he has been ,well let this be another one, where in my mind i shall be photoshopping my face on her body ,,bring it on Roooofus!
every time I watch the crap he does, I go back and watch Middlemarch as a way to wash my mind out
I second that emotion
love me some Rufus
Nooo! Keep her away from my hot, English boyfriend.
These booties are NOT fug. Quite the opposite, actually.
Agree! I also think the booties are pretty cute.
ICAM! Very cute to me. Red ankle boots look cute.
Yes, I’m quite loving those red boots. Not sure I could handle the heel for day to day stuff, though. Anybody got an ID on them?
“Katie is supposed to be playing a very ruthless and conniving woman, which sounds challenging for her talent level. Can Katie pull it off somehow?”
She did it in her own life, so she has some real experience from which to draw.
LOL! +1
I will watch Rufus Sewell. Well, I will listen to Rufus Sewell is more accurate. Voice and a half, that man.
Mmm yes. Plus I loved his last television series, Zen. He was so sexy… but kept losing his gun in every episode lol.
Zen! Gawd, he’s so sexy in Zen.
I loved Zen! And was most annoyed when it was cancelled. I thought his turn in Parades End was stellar.
I kind of like the red boots, but my God I remember the tan ones….those were terrible, I’m sure poor Suri was so ashamed.
Love Love Rufus Sewell. Loved him ever since a movie called Dangerous Beauty. He was so hot in that movie. And I think Katie looks great. And the boots are FINE.
Dangerous beauty is one of my favorite movies ever!! So incredible~Catherine McCormack (SP?) and Jaquelline Bisset were sublime. Oliver Platt also played a good role~
And he was killer in that comedy film Cold Comfort Farm!!
She’s strictly rom-com material. She is so awkward, I don’t see her pulling this off. She was cringe-worthy in Batman when she tried to play smart and passionate. Why not a comedy where she can play goofy and sweet? Seems like she always makes the wrong choices.
Her voice is nails on a chalkboard for me. I can’t figure out if she baby talks or if she just naturally has that voice. Back in the day, Brooke Shields was criticized for her “sparrow” voice, and supposedly took voice lessons.
I wish Katie well, but I have no interest in her work. She ruined the remake of the movie that traumatized me for life – Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. I was not a fan of Dawson’s Creek, and that seems to be where she cultivated most of her fans.
Rufus is fantastic–i was so disappointed the BBC did not renew his Aurelio Zen mysteries- he and they were terrific. There are rumors the subject matter proved embarrassing to the Italian government; location filming rights possibly endangered.
Me too! Loved Zen and who can forget him as Jasper in the movie the Holiday! I loved him in that too!
Zen was a fantastic show and he was fantastic in it.
I would watch because Rufus Sewell is sexy in a creepy serial killer way–but I’d still get in the car with him–and because he’s a great actor. I’m sad his career isn’t bigger. But maybe he likes it that way–he’s probably raking in some dough.
Ha
“Challenging for her talent level.” Haha.
Totally. She was and will always be Joey.
It’ll be nice to see Rufus in something. He’s never been able to “hit” in the States even amidst our current Anglo fixation. I think his problem has always been that he plays shifty TOO well and can’t shake his villainous typecast. As long as it’s even marginally better than that piece of shit he did (Eleventh Hour), I may check it out.
Wait Rufis is the guy who was a jerk to Kate Winslet’s character in The Holiday? I also remember him being a jerk to someone else in a movie, can’t remember the name but she was a Princess or something like that and trying to escape him on a horse. Well, anyway even though he is a jerk in those movies he is hot and I will definitely watch.
Yes that was him. He was a jerk in The Holiday
I liked beautiful creatures… and I like her new boots too. Is there something wrong with me? LOL
Couldn’t care less about Katie Holmes…. but hello Rufus Sewell!
What can I say? He can act, he’s English, he’s hot. I’m sold. And I’ve been drooling over him since I was 14 years old and everybody else was having the hots for Heath Ledger.
And I remember thinking that he was the worst miscast as Marke in Tristan & Isolde, because Isolde had to be out of her mind to take little, whiny Tristan over THIS Marke. He was delicious even without his trademark locks.
I know! I totally would have picked his Mark over Tristan.
I’ve loved him ever since he was Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch (1994) – though my fave has to be his Charles II in the Last King. I love RS and I love Charles II – so it was a perfect fantasy!
I will watch anything RS is in. Anything. I’d even watch Twilight if he were in it – though thankfully he is not. đŸ™‚
It was also a damn, crying shame that PBS didn’t order more episodes of Zen with Rufus. Loved him in that.
Lol, NO!
And I Love watching Rufus but Katie Holmes is Human oatmeal colored paint drying
Bland, bland, bland. But some people seem to love oatmeal colored paint.
I would rather paint dry. She’s a cute girl but really not much of an actress.
Amen.
She certainly is cheerful for someone who just had a broadway show bomb and a clothing line fail. I sort of hope this works out for her, but it won’t be because I’m watching.
Did her clothing line fail? Not that she probably deserves the credit or the blame since Suri has been picking out Katie’s red carpet clothing since she was two years old. I wonder if Katie’s partner (Yang?) has quietly moved on and attempted her own line.
I would watch Rufus Sewell. Doing anything. Period.
I loved when he was on The Tudors! So conniving but so beautiful you were mesmerized and forgot he wasn’t there to help you, lol.
Her beige fug booties set the bar pretty low (high), and cannot be beaten. These ones are cute. And red! They will actually elevate whatever fug outfit she chooses to wear, IMO. And this outfit is not even bad, so progress continues.
Hmmmm someone still trying to make her happen?
I like Katie (and Rufus too he’s great) however this plot is Cruel Intentions for the over 30 crowd plus her character is supposed to be the “Michelle Pfieffer” role in Dangerous Liasions.
Not really sure how far it could go as a series (if it gets picked up)
I don’t find any ABC dramas appealing beyond Nashville.
Tom the Builder!!!
Love Rufus, so I’d check it out at least once.
RUFUS!!!!!
I’m so there!
Rufus!!!! Oh YAH! I would watch for him. Good God.
Absolutely couldn’t care less about Katie. She’s got her niche and has been good in a couple of independent (?) movies here and there, but…meh. Although, maybe she’s making better choices now.
Katie is a terrible actress. Cute in Dawsons Creek. Not believable in any grown-up role. So no I wouldn’t watch. Pleased she got out of Co$.
Just read at deadline that Melissa George (Alias, Hunted, The Good Wife) will be playing the female lead opposite Rufus Sewell.
I can see both George and Sewell (based off their previous work) pulling off the manipulative Dangerous Liaisons characters, but I don’t see Holmes holding her own against them or being believable.
I guess we’ll see.