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ROSE ON LIFE ALONE Charmed beauty Rose McGowan is used to a life of depression - though it sometimes feels a bit strange being alone. The 27-year-old has split from numerous boyfriends including ex-fiance Marilyn Manson and also suffered the heartbreak of her best friend committing suicide. But she appears philosophical about the situation. Rose says, "I'm used to people dying and going away. Not used to it exactly - but I expect it. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that?" BACK TO THE TOP KNOT
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McGOWAN LIVING CHARMED LIFE The day after filming wrapped on her first season of Charmed last spring, Rose McGowan dyed her hair a flaming red. The producers were not pleased. She had been very much the brunette as Paige Matthews, one of three witchy sisters on the WB's one-hour supernatural drama. How would they explain the change? "Oh, come on, now," McGowan told the producers. "You explain a lot of goofy things, goofier than this. Just say I did a spell or a potion which blew up in my face and turned my hair red." Though her suggestion was a joke, "that's essentially what they did." McGowan's determination to have a new look is one way the 27-year-old actress says she is coping with the "boot camp" confinement of shooting a weekly series. She's even tried hypnosis to be "more accepting" of the rigorous process. Currently in reruns, Charmed also stars Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs as Paige Matthews's two half-sisters. It begins its fifth season with a two-hour episode Sept. 22. McGowan, one of the stars of the 1996 hit thriller Scream, joined Charmed after last year's departure of Shannen Doherty. Like Doherty, McGowan has a bit of a bad-girl image, built in part by her brief engagement to shock-rocker Marilyn Manson and renegade roles in films such as The Doom Generation and Jawbreaker. Still, directors John Kretchmer and Mel Damski, both on the Charmed set on a day of shooting back-to-back episodes, said that persona doesn't really represent the person. "Rose is so antithetical to what the public perceives," Kretchmer said. "She's an intelligent, worldly, sophisticated, educated woman who has an innate sweetness. I don't see anything bad." But that doesn't mean she won't speak her mind. Damski recalls an incident last season when, although McGowan was the newcomer, she took him aside and told him she felt he was being a little rough on a kid actor who didn't know his lines. "I think she's very ethical. She's got a lot of old-fashioned values," he said. McGowan takes a teen interest in her Paige Matthews character. She hopes Paige will become less obsessed with what is happening to her sisters and get "a life of her own." Dates would be a good thing. "It's kind of bizarre that they have a young girl who is not seeing anymore ... so hopefully I'll get some action," she says. One of six children, McGowan was born and raised in a Christian commune near Florence, Italy - "a real hippy-dippy background," she says - and she rebelled against it. "I was 'not shaving legs' meets 'wearing red lipstick' right from the get-go," she says, laughing. She recalls fighting with her dad as an adolescent: "He took away all the makeup I had managed to scrounge together, so I stole my sister's pastel crayons and melted them over the stove to put rainbow-striped eye shadow on." She remembers, too, that on the one occasion there was a television in the commune, "I crawled up and kissed it when Joan Collins was on. I love her. She's my favourite." McGowan said her father recently reminded her that when the family moved back to the United States, she turned to him and said she wanted a Joan Collins doll. "He had to inform me they did not make them, which was tragic!" BACK TO THE TOP SQUEAKY
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ROSE McGOWAN SETTLES INTO THE CHARMED LIFE 18.01.02 - If Rose McGowan could have one superpower, it would be to fly. "I do get jealous that Alyssa gets to fly," McGowan tells reporters at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California. "I don't get to do that. That is upsetting." "First of all, you don't have to worry about terrorists," she explains. "Secondly, different ways of flying - that's all I'm going to say." So far, she says she's had a good time settling into the rhythm of Charmed, her first TV series. McGowan, who's appeared in the films Scream, Jawbreaker and Monkeybone, compares working on television and films to the difference between a sprint and a dead-on run. "And this has been an endurance race," she says. "It's an attitude adjustment really. My attitude got quickly adjusted by the schedule." The actress says she works between 70 to 80 hours a week, not leaving much time for a personal life. "I have a lot less of a personal life and much more of a professional life," she says. "But I'm having a ball." "I get to bed at 9.30pm and get up at 5am. That's my life right now. It's sad and it's so not exciting." But one thing she does make time for is watching the show when it airs on TV. "It's new to me and so interesting that I don't have to wait a whole year to see something," she says comparing it to her film work. "Like, I can't believe I did this three weeks ago, that I actually remember what was going on." "I love seeing how everything comes together. By and large, a television show is so quick." As for her character, Paige, McGowan thinks that she will have changes in store for her, thanks to her mixed lineage - part witch and part White Lighter. "She's probably going to wind up being the one with the most powers or the strongest, which is a pretty cool development," says McGowan. "Maybe I'll get to fly." Source: Zap2it.com. Back to the top 08.09.01 - It take's a brave soul to fill Shannen Doherty's shoes - just ask TIffani Thiessen. But when the fourth season of The WB's Charmed kicks off September 27 with a special two-hour episode, Doherty will vanish - poof! - and Rose McGowan will swoop in as long-lost half sister Paige, keeping the show's "power of three" intact. Paige won't possess the same magical mind power as Doherty's Prue, but she's sure to have a few bewitching tricks up her sleeve - and a bad-boy love interest to send pulses racing. Wondering how McGowan will handle prime-time fame? Well, after being engaged to Marilyn Manson and attending the MTV Video Awards in a dress that could put J. Lo to shame, the 28-year-old knows all about life in the public eye. Which is why she may just have what it takes to fill Doherty's sexy stilettos. What made you want to do the show? I never really thought of doing a television series, but the writing is really good on Charmed, and it's a big hit, so at least I'm not making my TV debut in a pilot that could fall. Did you have to audition? No. They offered it to me when I was doing a movie in Romania. I actually found out through the Internet. I was surfing around, and I thought it was a joke when I found this story saying I was going to replace Shannen. Then they called me, and I realised it was true. So, you're the long-lost sister. How do you get discovered by the girls? I can't tell you how it happens, but at least it's not all a dream - like in Dallas or something. What can you tell us about Paige? I can't tell you anything! I think Mr. Spelling wants to keep it a secret, and he carries a big stick. Actually, I'm kidding. He's so sweet - but he does like to keep secrets. Fair enough. Can you tell us if you're anything like her? It was funny...I was reading a book a long time ago, when I was about 11, and I kept coming across this word, chutzpah, describing a character who was feisty and a go-getter. I thought, I think I have that. I definitely would say I still do. So, I'm attracted to female characters with chutzpah. When you were growing up, was there a particular character you really identified with? The only time I really wanted to be somebody, so to speak, was when I watched Dynasty when I was really little. I just wanted to be Alexis more than anything. Ironically, that was produced by Aaron Spelling, too. So, now, I'm at least getting to be in one of his series. This fall we'll also you in the Showtime drama The Killing Yard, based on the bloody riot at Attica prison 30 years ago. Sounds like an intense project. It was absolutely surprising and shocking and upsetting. I'd heard of Attica, but all I knew is that it was a prison. I remember watching Al Pacino yelling, "Attica!" in Dog Day Afternoon. I kept wondering, What's he so upset about? Now, I know. Back at The WB, a lot [of] attention will be focused on you to help deliver big ratings. Does that scare you at all? Gee, I never thought about it until you mentioned it. Thanks a lot. [Laughs.] All you can do is the best you can and show up and do your work and leave the rest to fate. I've done pretty well flying by the seat of my pants so far. Source: E! Online. The original article includes a cracking photo of Rose, plus a video clip. Back to the top
According to E! Online, "her minty green Collette Dinnigan silk sheath with a delicate lace hem is a summer delight. Great camel heels and bright red toes. No bangles, no bells but a whole lot of whistles." Back to the top McGOWAN GOES FOR THE CHARMED LIFE 07.07.01 - How did Rose McGowan, the offbeat 25-year-old actress (Monkeybones, Jawbreaker), wind up replacing the likewise offbeat Shannen Doherty on WB's Wiccan drama Charmed? "At first I thought it was a completely bizarre idea," McGowan says. "It would be an odd move for most people in my shoes, doing television and taking over for someone. But I've always been something of a wild card. I think it's kind of an amazing opportunity: Within one hour, I get to do drama, I get to do comedy, and I get to kick someone's ass. What more can I ask for?" McGowan, who just wrapped Vacuums ("It's like West Side Story meets Delicatassen") in Romania, steps in this fall as the previously unknown half-sister of Doherty's Prue Halliwell. Doherty, 30, who clashed with cast and crew as she did on Beverly Hills, 90210, exited the 3-year-old series in May with her character's death McGowan says she deliberately avoided seeking comparisons with her predecessor. "I don't know a lot about her, and I want to keep it that way." She was most impressed in a meeting with "spry" Charmed producer Aaron Spelling, whom she sees as "a cultural icon" from her early childhood spent watching Dynasty and The Colbys. "Alexis was my role model," she says. Source: USA Today, 06.07.2001. Back to the top |
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Looks
like Rose McGowan decided to don her dinner napkin at the New
YOrk Film Festival's About Schmidt premiere. The wrapped
'n' knotted white cotton camisole by Issey Miyake might have
worked with a flounced full peasant or jean skirt. But tossed
over tailored red trousers by Veronique Branquinho? This is
what Emily Post would call bad table manners. And no, you are
not excused! 
"Charmed's
Rose McGowan looks virtually virginal at the General Motors'
Pre-Oscar Fashion Bash in Los Angeles. Her frilly white cotton
Christian Dior frock is a far cry from the scandalous chain-link
getups she wore during her days with Marilyn Manson. Now, Rose
looks pure enough to star in an Ivory Soap commercial. Bet she
can still work up a good lather, though." 
19.07.01
- Charmed's new star shows off her own charms for the
press pack at the Television Critics Association tour.