Rose McGowan claims that Charmed producers monitored her weight whereas she starred on the present.
“They’d, like, circle round me to examine my weight after I got here again” initially of every season, McGowan, 52, mentioned on the Tuesday, January 6 episode of Paul C. Brunson’s “We Have to Discuss” podcast.
She added that she thinks they had been “inspecting their product.”
McGowan recalled that such conduct, again then, was handled as “utterly high quality.”
She performed Paige Matthews for 5 seasons of Charmed, the WB fantasy collection about San Francisco sisters who’ve secret supernatural powers. It was produced by Aaron Spelling and Brad Kern, amongst others.
Charmed ran from 1998 to 2006 and initially starred Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano as a trio of do-gooding witches. Doherty, who performed Prue Halliwell, left the present after three seasons. McGowan was launched as half-sister Paige in season 4. She had beforehand made her mark in edgier fare, having starred within the movies Scream (1996), Satan within the Flesh (1998) and Jawbreaker (1999).
Throughout her interview with Brunson, 50, McGowan recalled the strain to tone down her fashion and seem “so mainstream” amid her Charmed run.
“I knew the knives could be out,” she mentioned, referencing the aftermath of Doherty’s departure. “That the followers would need … the particular person, the opposite character, that they liked.”
Rose McGowan is getting candid about grieving the demise of fellow Charmed star Shannen Doherty on the age of 53. “I can’t cease crying,” McGowan, 50, wrote by way of Instagram touch upon Sunday, July 14. “A world with out Shannen Doherty is inconceivable.” McGowan had replied to Jawbreaker costar Julie Benz, who referred to as Doherty’s demise “heartbreaking” in […]
To endear herself to these viewers, McGowan “determined to base my character type of on I Love Lucy. Lucille Ball. What if she was younger and on this scenario, simply type of lovable, like type of goofy and tender? I’d pitch my voice larger and be non-threatening. As a result of I used to be ‘scary’ to individuals.”
Previous to Charmed, “I’d gown myself if I ever needed to go to an occasion,” McGowan mentioned. “Or do my very own make-up, issues like that. After which, throughout that complete interval after I was on that present, all of it modified. Unexpectedly, you needed to have a stylist. You needed to pay $6,000 a month to a stylist.”
McGowan mentioned stylists would reject garments she wished to put on, telling her “‘That’s too editorial’ — that means that’s too edgy and style.” She mentioned they chose outfits that had been extra “pink carpet. After which they’d put globs of make-up [on her] and big helmet hair.”
After the present ended, McGowan and Doherty fashioned a friendship. In August 2024, a month after Doherty died of most cancers at age 53, McGowan guest-hosted her podcast, “Let’s Be Clear.”
Shannen Doherty has no regrets in regards to the Charmed finale. The actress, who performed Prue Halliwell for 3 seasons earlier than her character was killed off, was requested whether or not she regrets not showing within the present’s closing episode throughout a Q&A on the Monday, Could 20, episode of her “Let’s Be Clear” podcast. The reply? “No.” “I […]
“If I’ve any regrets, I want I may have gotten to know her sooner,” she mentioned on the time, including, “We had been actually pitted in opposition to one another. I used to be simply advised she was fired and no person talked about her.”
McGowan refused to talk badly of Doherty when she joined Charmed in her place.
“They wished me to begin a struggle along with her, and I used to be like, ‘Completely not. I cannot begin a struggle along with her,’” she mentioned. “And to her credit score, she completely didn’t try this both.”
McGowan mentioned the “largest false impression about [Doherty] was that she was arduous. However on the identical time, it was the reality, but it surely’s not who she was natively. And I’d say that was the most important false impression about me as effectively. We each similar to to snicker. Mushy, beneath all of it.”
