Rose McGowan hasn’t been acting in films with the same frequency that she did in say, the early-to-mid-2000s. But that doesn’t mean the “Scream” and “Planet Terror” star isn’t making headlines. Last month, McGowan made major waves by calling out Hollywood for what she perceived to be its “grossness and sexism,” and revealed that she had been dropped by her agent for making incendiary remarks and biting the hand that feeds, so to speak.
Honestly, whether you agree with her or not, McGowan’s got a point. Gender inequality has been an unfortunate and egregious staple of Hollywood filmmaking for far too long. In this new podcast with Talkhouse Film, McGowan talks to filmmaker Mary Harron, who channeled her own inner feminist making her brilliant adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ “American Psycho," itself a skewering of masculine vanity and the culture of entitlement and exclusion that allows such a sick mindset to flourish. We have the entirety of their talk here, and it’s very much...
