Rose McGowan’s Advice To Her Younger Self: ‘Watch Out For the Predator’
Rose McGowan has always been an advocate for women and LGBT people, especially when it comes to matters of sexual violence. A victim herself, she opened up to Entertainment Tonight about what advice she’d give her younger self.
“Watch out! Watch out for the predator,” she said. “Watch out for those that would lie to you, watch out for those that would hurt you.” She added that while she doesn’t “feel any way about the profession” of acting, she does “feel a certain way about the system.”
“The system is incredibly corrupt and wrong and debasing,” she said. “If you think about it, only 23% of speaking roles are between women. Imagine how they’re generally portrayed in horror films, unlike The Sound. That, to me, is egregious, and what that they’re doing is giving women and men all over the world a mirror for themselves to look in and a way to consume the propaganda.”
She added: “The thing is, people freak out, understandably so, when there’s whitewashing or when there’s gender washing. And they should. I firmly believe in that. But there’s no outcry [for] women’s quote unquote movies, which are rare. They’re primarily all run by men. Interpreted by men or written by men, played by men, edited by men, distributed by men, sold by men.”
Rose is currently starring in The Sound.
Read the rest of the interview at Entertainment Tonight.