Rose McGowan claims that Charmed producers monitored her weight whereas she starred on the present.
“They might, like, circle round me to verify my weight after I got here again” at the beginning of every season, McGowan, 52, mentioned on the Tuesday, January 6 episode of Paul C. Brunson’s “We Have to Speak” podcast.
She added that she thinks they had been “inspecting their product.”
McGowan recalled that such habits, again then, was handled as “utterly nice.”
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 model and seem “so mainstream” amid her Charmed run.
“I knew the knives can be out,” she mentioned, referencing the aftermath of Doherty’s departure. “That the followers would need … the particular person, the opposite character, that they beloved.”
To endear herself to these viewers, McGowan “determined to base my character sort of on I Love Lucy. Lucille Ball. What if she was younger and on this scenario, simply sort of lovable, like sort of goofy and smooth? I’d pitch my voice greater and be non-threatening. As a result of I used to be ‘scary’ to folks.”
Previous to Charmed, “I’d costume 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 entire interval after I was on that present, all of it modified. Hastily, you needed to have a stylist. You needed to pay $6,000 a month to a stylist.”
McGowan mentioned stylists would reject garments she needed to put on, telling her “‘That’s too editorial’ — that means that’s too edgy and trend.” She mentioned they chose outfits that had been extra “crimson 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.”
“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 instructed she was fired and no one talked about her.”
McGowan refused to talk badly of Doherty when she joined Charmed in her place.
“They needed me to begin a battle together with her, and I used to be like, ‘Completely not. I can’t begin a battle together with her,’” she mentioned. “And to her credit score, she completely didn’t do this both.”
McGowan mentioned the “greatest 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 identical to to snigger. Mushy, beneath all of it.”



