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  • Rose McGowan Says Being ‘Tired of Being Sexualized’ Led Her to Directing

    Rose McGowan says she turned to directing after she grew of “tired of being sexualized,” noting a photo shoot for Rolling Stone in 2007 as the impetus for a change of heart about her career.

    The Charmed alum said in an interview with Flatt magazine that she reached a point where she’d had enough of being used as a sex object.

    “There was a moment, I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, with a fake tan and gun belt around me and breasts, they gave me some big bouffant hair and glossy lips, and I just was like, I’ve had it, I have just had it,” said McGowan.

    After her revelation, McGowan said she “checked out” for a while, taking time to just enjoy herself and determine what she wanted in her career. She decided to pursue directing.

    “It was not that I wasn’t meant to be an actress, it was just that I was meant to be in film, and I just was literally cast in the wrong role in life,” she said.

    “I’m an artist, but I never felt like I was an artist as an actor,” she said. “Not because of how I was treated, because that’s not how artists are treated, or should be treated, or people should be treated.”

    The 41-year-old actress, and now director, said it’s a good time for a woman in the the traditionally male-dominated director’s world.

    “I think it’s a great time for women filmmakers,” said McGowan. “Women are being afforded greater roles in their destiny, or roles in art, or roles as directors, but why should women be “afforded” anything? I shouldn’t just be allowed to have something – it is my right. It is my right to create as much as it’s another human being’s right, and I think that comes first. Somebody asked if I thought a man would have made Dawn, and I don’t know if they could have. I don’t know if it would have occurred to them.”

    McGowan shared her directorial debut of the short film Dawn at the premiere at the Grand Hotel in Los Angeles.

  • Rose McGowan Dining During Smoke Bomb Attack

    Rose McGowan–known for her role in Charmed–was just one of many people dining in a New York restaurant on Friday evening that was attacked by an unidentified person throwing a smoke bomb. The grenade-sized smoke bomb was thrown into Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue after the suspect popped out of a subway service grate just outside the restaurant. The place was immediately engulfed in thick red smoke, the restaurant’s employees told the New York Daily News.

    “It was a big one…about the size of a grenade,” one restaurant employee, who didn’t want to use his name, said. “Everybody panicked and half the people ran out.”

    “I’m just glad it wasn’t anything explosive,” the employee added.

    Rose McGowan told Gossip Cop that she was with a friend and the friend’s four-year-old son. She said the child was briefly “lost in the red smoke.”

    McGowan added that her eyes hurt even hours after the smoke bomb was set off and she still had a really bad taste in her mouth. She shared word of the incident via Twitter.

    The man who threw the smoke bomb remains at large. An employee at Bar Pitti said he would have had to walk for quite a while in order to pull off his crime, noting that he had to enter the train station at either the Spring Street or West 4th stations and then walk through the tunnels in order to get to the service entrance.

    Fortunately Rose McGowan and the other patrons at Bar Pitti escaped relataively unscathed–aside from the burning sensation in the eyes and a bad taste in the mouth–from the smoke bomb incident. The restaurant was reportedly aired out and back in business around 9:00 Friday evening.

  • Alyssa Milano Leaving ‘Mistresses,’ Choosing Family Over Career

    Alyssa Milano has decided to leave her ABC hit television show, Mistresses, citing a desire to stay in Los Angeles rather than relocate to Vancouver, Canada, to shoot the show’s third season.

    The actress made the announcement Wednesday via her website.

    “After two wonderful seasons in Los Angeles, the studio has decided to shoot season three of ‘Mistresses’ in Vancouver, Canada, for financial reasons. It’s with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can’t relocate,” she wrote on her website.

    It’s understandable that the mother of two would want to maintain some stability for her family, and it’s a courageous move considering the nature of the acting business.

    “I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away,” said Milano, who gave birth to her second child earlier this month.

    “I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best,” she said.

    It is unclear what will happen to her character, Savannah “Savi” Davis, now that she’s departing the series.

    Milano and husband David Bugliari are parents to daughter Elizabella Dylan, who was born Sept. 4, and three-year-old son Milo Thomas.

    Milano is also known for her roles in Charmed, Melrose Place and Who’s the Boss?, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this month.

  • Alyssa Milano Leaving ABC Show ‘Mistresses’

    Alyssa Milano is reportedly leaving the ABC hit show Mistresses, in which she has starred for two seasons. The show will be returning for a third season despite Milano’s departure. She shared word of her departure–as well as the reason behind it–via her website.

    “After two wonderful seasons in Los Angeles, the studio has decided to shoot season three of Mistresses in Vancouver, Canada, for financial reasons. It’s with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can’t relocate,” she shared with her fans. “I have two babies under 4. Being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.”

    No word has emerged yet as to how the producers of Mistresses will handle Alyssa Milano’s character, Savannah ‘Savi’ Davis, given her recent announcement about not returning to the show.

    Alyssa Milano and her her husband David Bugliari have a daughter named Elizabella, who was born just under a month ago on September 4th. They have a son named Milo Thomas, who is three.

    In addition to having starred in Mistresses, Alyssa Milano is known for roles in Charmed and Melrose Place. She is probably best known for the sitcom she first starred in 30 years ago alongside Tony Danza–Who’s the Boss?

    Are you a Mistresses fan? Are you bummed that Alyssa Milano is leaving the show? How do you think producers should handle her departure? Should they kill off Savannah Davis or should they replace her character with another actress instead?

  • Alyssa Milano Shares Photo of Son Snuggling Her Baby Bump

    Last week Alyssa Milano shared a photo on Instagram of her almost-three-year-old son Milo snuggling her bare baby bump.

    Milano captioned the photo:

    “#MomAndBaby are doing fine. Families everywhere should be able to say the same …” and posted a link to the official website of USAID.

    In March Milano and husband David Bugliari announced they were expecting their second child together.

    In May Milano revealed that the baby was a girl.

    She announced the happy news by filming a video set in her Mistresses dressing room and uploading it to YouTube. The video was simply and aptly titled “Baby Bugliari Gender Reveal.”

    Milano and Bugliari, a Creative Artists Agency agent, met in 2006 and married in 2009.

    “He is one of the funniest people on the planet,” Milano has said of Bugliari. “And he’s a great, great, great, great father …”

    The family currently lives in a gated community 45 minutes northwest of Los Angeles with four chickens, four horses, and a vegetable garden.

    Milano, who is well-known for her previous roles on Who’s the Boss? and Charmed, is currently starring in the ABC drama Mistresses.

    Currently in its second season, the series features an ensemble cast, which Milano says “meant I was going to have time to spend with my boy.”

    She takes Milo on set with her regularly:

    “… I feel so blessed as a mom to be able to do that, ’cause there aren’t many jobs that allow that.”

    Milano will soon be heading to New York to shoot season four of Project Runway: All Stars after successfully hosting and judging season three.

    When she’s not acting, Milano stays busy running her successful Touch by Alyssa Milano sportswear line, contributing to the Hacktivist comic book series, and acting on behalf of humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF.

    Image via Instagram, Alyssa Milano

  • Alyssa Milano Isn’t Ready For A “Charmed” Reboot

    Alyssa Milano took to Twitter recently to voice her opinion on the news that began circulating around the web earlier this week: the remake of “Charmed”, which will air on CBS.

    The former child-actress was one of the screen queens of the ’80s with her role on “Who’s The Boss”, and moved almost seamlessly into a success in the ’90s as one-third of a group of sister-witches on “Charmed”. During that time, supernatural shows were all the rage: “Buffy” and “Angel” were enormous hits, and now the trend has come back around, as they are wont to do; when “Underworld” came out, it was all about werewolves. When “Twilight” hit theaters, vampires were everywhere. Now, television execs want in on the witch craze that has come about as “American Horror Story: Coven” and “Witches Of East End” draw in viewers.

    “Charmed” was a noted piece of history for the WB after running for eight seasons–even after one of it’s original stars, Shannen Doherty, was replaced in season 4 by Rose McGowan–with a nearly all-female cast, so it’s not hard to see why any network wouldn’t want to bring it back to life.

    “I think really it’s due to the success of Charmed and the fact that it had so much success even after it was done, meaning that people looked for it, people searched it out and watched those episode over and over,” Milano said. “The Charmed fans are the greatest fans on the planet and the most loyal fans on the planet. I feel like networks are trying to replicate that.”

    Milano took to Twitter to talk about how she feels it’s just too soon for a reboot of the show.

    McGowan went for a more direct approach:

    “Charmed” joins “Murder, She Wrote” in a new batch of television reboots coming up.

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