Rose McGowan’s weight was repeatedly checked by “Charmed” executives, the actress claimed in a new podcast interview.
The 52-year-old, who played Paige Matthews on the show from 2001 to 2006, told “We Need to Talk” listeners Tuesday that higher-ups used to “circle around” her to appraise her appearance.
“[They would] check my weight when I came back from season to season,” she recalled, quipping that the men were “inspecting their product.”
The “Grindhouse” star remembered this behavior being “chill” and viewed as “completely fine” on the “nasty set” at the time.
She expressed mixed feelings about Hollywood being “different” these days, claiming the industry “pay[s] lip service” to the idea that it has evolved.
Earlier in the interview, McGowan noted that “Charmed” was “hard for” her to film as her first time dealing with “super corporate” dynamics.
She once asked “five white dodos in their suits” whether they would “fire [her]” and let her “leave” if she was caught smoking a joint.
“They were like, ‘If you go work at a pharmacy, we’ll sue you. No matter what job you get, we’ll take your wages for the rest of your life and then we’ll go after your family,’” McGowan claimed.
She labeled the entertainment industry “far worse than the [Children of God] cult [she] grew up in.”
In 2018, McGowan said in her “Citizen Rose” docuseries that she needed hypnotherapy to process her time on the WB show.
“I found the repetitive days so opposite my natural rhythms that I became sick over and over,” she told viewers of the “very stressful environment.”
The “Scream” star added, “I started to have panic attacks because of everything I was pushing down. I was sick about four or five times a season. … The pace was grueling. Two years in a row, I had 102-degree fevers and got dumped in trash cans, in a stunt, always on the days that I was the most ill.”
She gained 10 pounds for the role, explaining in her “Brave” memoir that same year that her goal was to appear “super nonthreatening” as Shannen Doherty’s character Prue Halliwell’s replacement.
When McGowan dyed her hair bright red before her second season, the series’ “furious” executives “flipped out.”
However, McGowan “liked it, so [she] kept it.”
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