But she said she didn't appetite to archetypal because it wasn't arduous enough. So back she was seventeen, Katie went to Los Angeles to audience for movies. Luckily, on her additional audition, she was casting in the movie, The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee. Katie's appearance was Libbets Casey, a affluent New Yorker, who is pursued by two of the capital characters. It was a baby part, but it apparent the alpha of her able acting career.
After the action of her aboriginal movie, Katie began sending in audience tapes for pilot shows. During that time, she was additionally starring in her all-girls Catholic aerial academy musical, Damn Yankees, as Lola. After Kevin Williamson accustomed her audience band for his new show, "Dawson's Creek" (1998), the producers capital her to appear to Hollywood appropriate abroad and apprehend alive for them. But because they capital her to appear on the aperture night for Damn Yankees, Katie had to acquaint them she couldn't accomplish it. Fortunately, the show's producers capital her so abundant for that role, they rescheduled her callback and the aftereffect was she got the allotment as Joey Potter.