Fierce, vulnerable, voluble: 36 minutes with Rose McGowan
NEW YORK - Rose McGowan gives zero - well, you know whats. Or maybe she gives too many. Sometimes it can be hard to tell.
The author, filmmaker, musician, activist and former actress arrives an hour later than scheduled for an interview at her stylish TriBeCa hotel and asks if she can have a few minutes to go upstairs and "get human again." Another half-hour later, she returns to the lobby wearing white adhesive patches under her eyes to reduce allergy-related puffiness which, paired with her fuzzy yellow sweater, make her resemble an exotic bird.
She's spent the day criss-crossing Manhattan promoting her E! docu-series, "Citizen Rose," and the release of her memoir, "Brave," in which she details, for the first time, her alleged rape at the hands of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. Weinstein has denied the allegations. She's
