WebProNews

Tag: Rose McGowan

  • 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.

  • Rose McGowan Gets An Adolf Hitler Haircut

    Rose McGowan Gets An Adolf Hitler Haircut

    Rose McGowan’s hair just keeps getting shorter and shorter. As People Magazine’s Style News pointed out, it went from a ponytail to a bob in July, three weeks ago it was cut to right below the ears, and two weeks ago she made it into a full chop.

    How does she describe her new haircut? Her official haircut Instagram post came with the following caption: “I look like Hitler’s stoned cousin #newhair #notstoned #hitlersucked”.

    E! News kindly made a list of potential comparisons McGowan could have made to describe her new haircut, instead of choosing to showcase a genocidal dictator:

    1. Charlie Chaplin without a moustache
    2. Anne Hathaway
    3. Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry
    4. Orange Is the New Black‘s Big Boo

    They also suggested she take her cue from other celebrities like Miranda Lambert, who simply said “Fresh cut! Fresh color!” in her own Instagram post. Although Lambert did not get it cut as short as McGowan, there are celebrities out there with short haircuts who managed to avoid a Hitler reference, like Kaley Cuoco who wrote: ” “Thank you @clsymonds for bringing out my inner Peter Pan 🙂 #byronbeverlyhills #justcutitoff”.”

    It makes you wonder why McGowan couldn’t have just made a safe Peter Pan reference.

    While McGowan may have been inspired by Hitler, the singer managed to be a source of inspiration herself for Amber Rose at the VMAs this year. Described by People Magazine as “a sparkly series of chains linked to create the illusion of a dress, over a sparkly G-string,” Rose’s dress was a shoutout to the dress McGowan wore to the 1998 VMAs. Rose even made it on Billboard’s list of the best 2014 VMA moments with the comment, “Nice throwback, Amber!”

  • Rose McGowan Witnesses “Knockout Game” Beatdown

    Rose McGowan has claimed that she personally witnessed a distressful “knockout game” attack in LA, Thursday.

    McGowan was going about her business when a masked man suddenly appeared and walloped an unsuspecting elderly man in the head before fleeing the scene on a skateboard.

    The knockout game is an assault in which an assailant punches an unsuspecting victim. In most cases, the assailant uses a single “sucker punch” in an attempt to knockout the victim.

    Describing the incident on Twitter, McGowan said that she was out and about Venice Beach when she witness a 65-years-old man become victim of assault.

    Rose described the attacker as a “criminal” wearing a mask and riding a skateboard. The 40-year-old actress also said she tried to run after the attacker but he was too fast and escaped.

     

    Rose called the ambulance after discovering that the elderly victim was bleeding from the ear. She also revealed that the victim had a dog with him but the attacker was too quick for the dog to protect his master.

    The identities of both the attacker and the victim still remain unknown.

    What Is The Knockout Game?

    Image via Youtube

  • 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.

    Image: YouTube

  • Rose McGowan Shows Google+ Her Fish Face

    Rose McGowan Shows Google+ Her Fish Face

    Recent reports have indicated that Google+ has struggled to keep brands engaging. It’s not exactly the first place fans think of for engaging with celebrities either typically (unless perhaps they’re trying to engage with Wil Wheaton or look at photos of Hugh Jackman).

    Some celebrities just rehash the stuff they’re sharing on Facebook or Twitter. That doesn’t go for Rose McGowan. I think it’s safe to say she’s an active Google+ user – one of the 390 million Google boasted this week as it launched a slew of new features.

    If you want to see McGowan showing off her “fish face,” you’re going to have an easier time finding it on Google+ than you are on Facebook or Twitter.

    (image)
    (image)

    Rose McGowan2 hours ago

    The Eternal Fish Face

    (image)

    (image)137    (image)13 Powered by socialditto

    (image)
    (image)

    Rose McGowan23 days ago

    Afternoon fish face #naptime

    (image)

    (image)345    (image)41 Powered by socialditto

    (image)
    (image)

    Rose McGowan65 days ago

    Party (and fish) face

    (image)

    (image)296    (image)47 Powered by socialditto